A team from the MIVA for the time in recent history earned the top spot in the national media poll.
Loyola received three first-place votes and jumped up one spot to No. 1 in the new Volleyball Magazine national media poll released Tuesday morning.
The weekend in college men’s volleyball featured everything from UCLA accomplishing a feat never achieved before at the Outrigger Invitational to another team atop the nationally rankings dropping a match.
Check out the five things to take away from this weekend in college men’s volleyball.
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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The Stanford serving game was clicking from the opening game and didn’t slow down in its victory between two top-10 nationally ranked teams.
No. 5 Stanford had 14 aces, including eight in the opening game, as it defeated No. 9 Lewis 25-16, 21-25, 25-19, 26-22 on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif.
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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.
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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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.
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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