A nationwide voting committee selected Sacred Heart libero Joshua Ayzenberg, Stanford libero Evan Enriques and Long Beach State libero Andrew Sato as finalists for the annual Erik Shoji Award.
The Erik Shoji Award, which is named after the former Stanford All-American and U.S. Olympian libero, is presented to the nation’s best libero in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball during the regular season. (more…)
A nationwide voting committee selected Ohio State setter Christy Blough, BYU setter Leo Durkin and Long Beach State setter Josh Tuaniga as finalists for the annual Lloy Ball Award.
The Lloy Ball Award, which is named after the former Fort Wayne All-American and U.S. Olympian setter, is presented to the nation’s best setter in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball during the regular season. (more…)
A nationwide voting committee selected 11 players to the annual Off the Block/Springbak, Inc. Freshmen All-American Team.
The Off the Block/Springbak, Inc. Freshmen All-American Team honors the top NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball freshmen players from the regular season. This is the fourth year Off the Block and Springbak, Inc. have presented the national honor, and it remains the only Freshmen All-American Team presented in college men’s volleyball. (more…)
The NCAA Tournament sites are set for the next five years.
The NCAA announced on Tuesday that Long Beach State, George Mason, Ohio State and UCLA were selected to play host to the upcoming Division I-II men’s volleyball championships between 2019 to 2022. (more…)
No upsets in the opening round of the conference tournaments resulted minimal movement in the RPI.
BYU stayed at No. 1 as the top seven teams all remained unchanged in the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released on Monday. (more…)
It was only fitting that outside attacker Aaron Koubi would deliver the match-winning kill for No. 5/5 UC Irvine in its biggest match of the season. (more…)
Check out Off the Block special contributor Jonathan Bates’ postmatch interviews with No. 5/5 UC Irvine after it defeated No. 6/6 UCLA in the MPSF Tournament quarterfinals on Saturday. (more…)
Check out all the postseason matches today involving NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams and how to follow them live. (more…)
Long Beach State outside attacker TJ DeFalco achieved a feat that had not been accomplished since a former U.S. Olympian did it 20 years ago.
DeFaclo was selected as the 2017 MPSF Player of the Year on Thursday to become the first player in back-to-back years to win the conference’s player of the year and newcomer of the year awards since BYU middle attacker Ryan Millar in 1996-97. (more…)
Ohio State is continuing to rack up the wins while starting to fall behind in one of the criteria categories used to determine the NCAA Tournament field.
The Buckeyes following two more conference wins to end their MIVA regular season undefeated dropped five spots to No. 12 in the latest strength of the schedule rankings that the NCAA released earlier this week. (more…)