NCAA Males
January 4, 2024
The NCAA males’s volleyball season received underway in earnest Wednesday with six matches, together with sweeps for Hawai’i, Pepperdine and Ohio State.
Ball State received twice and is now 3-0.
The AVCA ballot is out and the coaches now embody 20 groups, up from 15. Defending national-champion UCLA is No. 1.
First a have a look at Thursday’s schedule.
UCLA of the MPSF opens its season at dwelling with two matches towards SIAC groups, first Fort Valley State after which Morehouse of the SIAC.
Final 12 months’s EIVA champion, Penn State, is dwelling for Central State of the SIAC.
The are three matches at UC Santa Barbara of the Massive West. The house crew of the Massive West performs the EIVA’s NJIT, CSUN of the Massive West performs Grand Canyon of the MPSF and the Massive West’s UC San Diego performs the EIVA’s George Mason.
Recaps
Motion started Tuesday when Ball State performed host to Wabash, a small faculty from Indiana which competes within the nine-team Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League. Ball State of the MIVA mainly held batting follow within the opener, hitting .618. The Cardinals has 44 kills with simply two errors in 68 assaults and 10 aces. Trevor Phillips, Dyer Ball and Nathan Goh had eight kills every.
Wednesday, Ball State swept Wabash once more after which did the identical to Thomas Extra College. Towards Wabash, Ryan Bartz had 14 kills with no errors in 22 swings. Towards Thomas Extra, a small faculty from Kentucky, Patrick Rogers led with 10 kills, 4 aces and 5 digs. Additionally Wednesday, Thomas Extra beat Wabash in 4.
Hawai’i of the Massive West opened with a 25-23, 25-19, 25-20 victory over visiting Loyola Chicago of the MIVA. Spyros Chakas led the Rainbow Warriors with 16 kills, 4 digs and three blocks, two solo.
Pepperdine of the MPSF beat visiting Fort Valley State 25-17, 25-14, 25-12. The Waves hit .427 as Kevin Roberts had 11 kills and Akin Akinwumi had 10. Fort Valley hit minus .036.
The MIVA’s Ohio State rolled to a 25-22, 25-21, 25-18 victory over visiting North Greenville of Convention Carolinas. Jacob Pasteur had 12 kills and Cole Younger for the Buckeyes, who hit .350.
AVCA prime 20
UCLA received all 23 first-place votes in a ballot that has been expanded from 15 groups to twenty. The Bruins are adopted by Lengthy Seaside State, Hawai’i, UC Irvine and Ohio State.
Of be aware is No. 19 Lincoln Memorial, an impartial that yearly competes nicely on the nationwide degree.
Click on right here for the whole AVCA Nationwide Collegiate Males’s Volleyball Ballot.