It’s a huge slate of marquee non-conference matches tonight in college men’s volleyball.
A defacto championship match at the Outrigger Invitational between UCLA and Hawai’i highlights the non-conference matches. However, not to be a overlooked by the non-conference matches is a rematch of the 2013 MPSF championship as No. 1 Long Beach State and BYU met in conference play.
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Some of the biggest non-conference matches during the entire college men’s season will be played tonight.
No. 9 Lewis less than one week after upsetting BYU will now try to beat another MPSF school as it travels out to the a West Coast to play No. 5 Stanford. In addition, the Outrigger Invitational continues with No. 10 Penn State playing Hawai’i in the late-night match.
There are some big storylines that will played-out during one of college men’s volleyball’s biggest annual non-conference tournaments.
Everything from UCLA trying to accomplish a feat never achieved to all four teams attempting to pick-up signature non-conference victories highlight the storylines as the 20th annual Outrigger Invitational begins Thursday in Honolulu.
Long Beach State days after winning the UC Santa Barbara Invitational is now sitting atop the national media poll.
The 49ers received all but one first-place vote to be ranked No. 1 in the season’s first Volleyball Magazine Poll that was released Tuesday afternoon.
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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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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.
The locations for future men’s volleyball NCAA Tournaments are now set.
The NCAA announced Wednesday afternoon that it awarded NCAA Tournament hosting bids to Stanford in 2015, Penn State in 2016, Ohio State in 2017 and UCLA in 2018.
The defending EIVA champions are once again projected to win another conference title in 2014.
Penn State received all but one first-place vote as it finished atop the EIVA preseason coaches poll that was released Wednesday morning.