So much for easing into the start of the college men’s volleyball season.
The opening week of the 2014 season had everything from five of the top 10 nationally ranked teams losing to a champion being crowned at the UC Santa Barbara Invitational.
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Crabb comes up big, No. 4 Long Beach beats Harvard in UCSB Invite finals
The campaign for Long Beach State outside attacker Taylor Crabb to repeat as the National Player of the Year is off to a quick start.
Crabb had a match-high 19 kills as No. 4 Long Beach State defeated Harvard 25-18, 20-25, 25-19, 25-13 to win the UC Santa Barbara Invitational championship on Saturday in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Season Preview: Every NCAA men’s volleyball team in a sentence or two
Most preseason talk around a team can be summed up in a few sentences — and that’s what we did.
As the NCAA men’s volleyball season begins in full earnest this weekend, get a quick breakdown of every men’s volleyball team from around the nation as they enter the 2014 season.
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Season Preview: Contenders for the 2014 National Player of Year award
Good luck trying to predict who will win the biggest individual award in college men’s volleyball for the upcoming season.
The two National Player of the Year winners from last year, BYU outside attacker Taylor Sander and Long Beach State outside attacker Taylor Crabb, return for their senior seasons. However, the field remains wide open in the race for 2014 National Player of the Year.
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Season Preview: 5 teams that may surprise everyone in 2014
There are teams that have high preseason expectations and than there are those teams that enter a season will little fanfare but become the biggest surprises of the year.
Whether it’s Long Beach State last year overcoming little preseason hype to almost reach the NCAA Tournament or UC Santa Barbara’s postseason run to the 2011 NCAA finals, each season tends to feature teams that surprise everyone.
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Season Preview: Dark horse teams that could crash 2014 NCAA Tournament
Everyone loves an underdog team that has the capabilities of making a surprise postseason run.
While there are preseason favorites in every college men’s volleyball conference, there are those teams that enter the year with little preseason fanfare but could crash the NCAA Tournament at the end of the season.
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BYU, Ohio State, Ball State most followed men’s volleyball teams on Twitter
BYU may not be opening the season No. 1 in the national coaches poll but it will start the year atop the social media rankings for college men’s volleyball teams.
A recent search of NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball team Twitter accounts showed that BYU as the 2014 regular season begins later this week leads all teams by more than 1,000 followers.
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Season Preview: Preseason favorites to win 2014 NCAA championship
It’s that time of year when every team is hopeful, but there are those select teams have good reason to be even more optimistic about their chances of ending the year as NCAA champions.
With the regular season starting in less than a week, several teams begin the year as the favorites to be crowned national champions in May.
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Top 10 bold predictions for 2014 college men’s volleyball season
There’s always some safe preseason predictions to make every year — and than there’s the crazy, bold ones.
With the college men’s volleyball season less than two weeks away from starting, Off the Block is making its bold predictions on everything from conference championship races to what will happen in the NCAA championship match.