On this version of Volleyball In the present day, we’ve acquired the Patriot League Championship starting Tuesday, the AVCA ballot, an NCAA RPI replace with implications, the passing of Matt McShane, a firing, a statue for WKU’s Travis Hudson and information on the Laguna Seaside Open:
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
Postseason is upon us.
The Patriot League convention match will get underway when sixth-seeded Lehigh goes to No. 3 American and No. 5 Loyola Maryland is at No. 4 Military West Level. The semifinals are Friday at Colgate with the best advancing seed taking part in second-seeded Bucknell and the opposite winner going through No. 1 Colgate.
There are 4 matches in The Summit League, the place South Dakota State (14-1) holds a one-game lead on Omaha (13-2). South Dakota State is at South Dakota, whereas Omaha goes to Kansas Metropolis. Denver is at Oral Roberts and North Dakota is at North Dakota State because the regular-season concludes. The convention match begins Sunday in Kansas Metropolis.
The Ohio Valley Convention has the same scenario. Southeast Missouri (12-3) holds a one-game lead on Lindenwood (12-4) and is up two video games on Little Rock (11-5). Southeast Missouri is dwelling for SIUE, Lindenwood is at Little Rock, Morehead State goes to Southern Indiana, Tennessee State is at Jap Illinois and Tennessee Tech is at UT Martin.
The identical groups face off Wednesday and the convention tourney begins Sunday.
Within the Missouri Valley, Murray State is at Belmont and UIC is at Valparaiso.
The Mountain West has third-place Fresno State (11-5) at San Jose State (12-5). Idle Colorado State leads at 12-4.
There have been two SWAC matches Monday as Texas Southern swept Grambling and Alabama State did the identical to Southern.
AVCA high 25
Very like the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, there was little motion on the high of the AVCA Division I Ladies’s Volleyball Ballot. The highest 10 spots stayed the identical with the primary change coming at No. 11, the place Kansas moved up a spot. Nobody dropped out.
Click on right here for the full AVCA high 25.
NCAA RPI via Sunday
The pc rankings aren’t the be-all end-all in terms of the NCAA Match bracket, nevertheless it provides a fairly good concept of how the sector of 64 will look. What issues most are the highest 4 seeds (in the event that they win their first two matches they get to play at dwelling for the third and fourth rounds), the highest 16 (you get to host the primary two rounds), after which the groups within the 40s, who hope for at-large bids.
All that being mentioned, the highest 4 at Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Louisville and Creighton. The remainder of the highest 16 reveals Stanford, Penn State, SMU, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Kentucky, Kansas, Texas, Utah, Dayton, TCU and BYU. The following 4 are USC, Oregon, Florida, Baylor.
Just a few convention notes: The ACC has 10 within the high 47, the Huge Ten has 9 within the high 33, the Huge 12 has seven within the high 46, and the SEC has 11 within the high 49.
Most conferences will get only one group within the match. Exceptions are the Huge East, the place actually Creighton and RPI 24 Marquette get in and the West Coast Convention, the place RPI 26 Loyola Marymount is a lock and RPI 41 San Diego is a robust likelihood.
Others that might get a couple of if the favorites are upset embody the Atlantic 10 (RPI 14 Dayton), Convention USA (RPI 36 UTEP, RPI 53 Western Kentucky), Huge West (RPI 37 Hawai’i), Summit League (RPI 31 South Dakota State, Missouri Valley (RPI 39 Northern Iowa), Horizon League (RPI 44 Wright State) and Ivy League RPI 48 Yale).
Some numbers to think about concerning the probabilities of upsets: Dayton has received 21 in a row and completed with a two-game lead within the A10; WKU received twice at UTEP, completed with a two-game lead and has received 21 in a row; and UNI has received 17 in a row and received the MVC by one sport over Drake (RPI 58).
Matt McShane passes away
Matt McShane, whose profession included being head volleyball coach at Air Drive and as an aassistant after which head coach at Cal, has died.
John Kessel posted about his passing on Fb, however we’ve got no different particulars at the moment.
McShane, who performed at UC Santa Barbara then on the boys’s membership group at BYU, was a USA nationwide group assistant coach and in addition was an assistant at Utah, New Mexico and BYU.
UNCW fires coach Dottie Hampton
UNC Wilmington made the announcement Monday that fifth-year coach Dottie Hampton has been let go after the Seahawks finshed 7-18, 4-14 within the CAA. She additionally coached seashore.
UNCW has been to the NCAA Match as soon as, in 2015.
WKU plans Travis Hudson statue
His success is nicely documented and there are few higher guys in our sport than Western Kentucky’s Travis Hudson, who’s in his thirtieth yr on the job. And WKU will acknowledge that with a statue of him in 2025. That is from the WKU information launch:
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Director of Athletics Todd Stewart introduced that legendary WKU Volleyball Coach Travis Hudson will likely be ceaselessly immortalized at Diddle Area with a statue to be unveiled in the course of the 2025 season. The announcement got here on the evening that Hudson was inducted into the WKU Athletics Corridor of Fame.
“… In consequence, we’ve got additionally commissioned famend sculptor Russ Faxon to design and produce a life-size statue of Travis that will likely be unveiled within the fall of 2025. He joins Ed Diddle as the one people in WKU Athletics historical past to have a statue of their honor, and I congratulate him on this really deserved recognition.”
Hudson is in his thirtieth season on The Hill and joined WKU’s Athletics Corridor of Fame on Saturday evening. He has amassed 777 profession wins, surpassing Ed Diddle for the second-most amongst any Hilltopper coach in a single sport (Diddle owns 1,030 whole head teaching victories among the many 4 sports activities he coached at WKU). Hudson has led his Hilltoppers to 33 Convention Championships, 16 NCAA Match appearances (together with the 2020-21 Candy 16), been named Convention Coach of the Yr 11 instances and AVCA South Area Coach of the Yr seven instances, had 64 first-team all-conference honorees, 12 All-People (together with 4, four-time All-People), 11 Convention Gamers of the Yr, seven Freshmen of the Yr, seven Defensive Gamers of the Yr, six South Area Gamers of the Yr and 5 Setters of the Yr.
Click on right here for the full information launch.
Laguna Open begins Friday
The professional seashore match begins with the qualifier on Friday, modified pool play and the beginning of playoffs on Saturday, and it finishes on Sunday.
The highest girls’s seed is the pair of Julia Scoles and Teegan Van Gunst. The second seed is Carly Kan and Devanne Sours and the third is Olympian Kelly Cheng taking part in with Kyra Zangle.
The highest males’s seeds are Seain Prepare dinner and Logan Webber. Two indoor Olympians are the No. 2 seed, David Lee and Paul Lotman.
For extra, click on on this Volleyball Life hyperlink, or right here at lagunaopen.org.
