Sixth-seeded King upset third-seeded Erskine and fourth-seeded Mount Olive got here again to beat fifth-seeded Barton in 5 as the Convention Carolinas Championship obtained underway Tuesday.
Extra tournaments start Wednesday, together with the MPSF, EIVA and NEC as NCAA Division I-II males’s postseason play is in full swing in anticipation of Sunday’s eight-team bracket announcement.
Conferences additionally handed out postseason honors and we’ve obtained the ultimate AVCA regular-season prime 20 on this report that gives a conference-by-conference breakdown. Six conferences — Huge West, Convention Carolinas, EIVA, MIVA, MPSF and SIAC get computerized bids, leaving two at-large spots up for grabs.
Convention Carolinas
Mount Olive (17-9) now faces top-seeded Belmont Abbey (19-4) on Friday earlier than King (7-20) performs second-seeded North Greenville (14-8) within the semifinals.
Justin Gregory had a career-high 26 kills and hit .548 as Mount Olive beat visiting Barton 20-25, 25-11, 21-26, 25-27, 15-9. Gregory had three errors in 42 assaults, an ace, 5 blocks and 6 digs. The Trojans’ Hayden Frear had 12 kills, hit .400, and had an help, an ace, two blocks and 9 digs.
Barton’s season ended 12-13 after the Bulldogs hit .096. Brandon Johnston led with 12 kills.
Belmont Abbey swept North Greenville on February 17 and swept the Trojans on March 22.
Visiting King received 22-25, 25-21, 27-25, 27-25 after Erskine swept each their regular-season conferences. Warren Davis had 23 kills with one error in 42 assaults to hit .524 and had three assists and 10 digs. AJ Drooker had 14 kills and Kellan Kennedy 10, hitting .467. King had misplaced 5 in a row to finish the common season
Erskine’s season ended 13-11 regardless of 19 kills from Pablo Zamar, who hit .361, and Edgerrin Austin, who had 18 kills, hitting .325 with 5 blocks.
Belmont Abbey received each regular-season conferences with King, in 5 on February 20 and in a sweep on April 6.
MPSF
The convention event begins Wednesday with three matches at USC:
Second-seeded Grand Canyon (22-4) vs. No. 7 Concordia Irvine (6-18), No. 3. BYU (16-8) vs. No. 6 USC (12-14) and No. 4 Stanford (13-11) vs. fifth-seeded Pepperdine (17-10).
The bottom remaining seed will get top-seeded UCLA (22-24) on Thursday and the opposite winners play one another. The ultimate is Saturday.
ALL-MPSF: UCLA senior center Merrick McHenry is the convention participant of the yr and Pepperdine center Ethan Watson is the highest freshman.
Learn the MPSF information launch and see the crew lists right here.
EIVA
The event at Penn State begins Wednesday with third-seeded Princeton (12-11) taking part in sixth-seeded Charleston (12-15) and No. 5 Harvard (11-12) dealing with fourth-seeded NJIT (11-14)
The Harvard-NJIT winner will get top-seeded Penn State (21-6), which went 10-0 within the league. George Mason (17-9) awaits the Princeton-Charleston winner.
ALL-EIVA: The participant of the yr is Penn State’s John Kerr. Learn the EIVA story right here.
Penn State had 4 gamers on the all-EIVA first crew and two extra on the second. Learn the EIVA story right here.
Mark Pavlik of Penn State is the coach of the yr.
MIVA
The semifinals are Thursday when top-seeded Ball State performs fourth-seeded Lindenwood and second-seeded Loyola Chicago performs third-seeded Ohio State. All 4 received quarterfinal matches this previous Saturday.
ALL-MIVA: Loyola Chicago’s Parker Van Buren is the participant of the yr, teammate Daniel Fabikovic is the highest newcomer and Ball State’s Donan Cruz is the coach of the yr.
Learn the MIVA information launch right here that features the all-conference groups.
Huge West
The Huge West Championship begins Thursday at Hawai’i with No. 4 UC San Diego taking part in fifth-seeded CSUN and third-seeded Hawai’i dealing with No. 6 UC Santa Barbara. Friday, the UCSD-CSUN winner will get top-seeded Lengthy Seashore State and the UH-UCSB winner will get No. 2 UC Irvine.
SIAC
The league event begins Thursday at Edward Waters in Jacksonville, Florida.
Fifth-seeded Benedict performs fourth-seeded Kentucky State after which sixth-seeded Morehouse performs third-seeded Central State. Later Thursday, the Benedict-KSU winner performs top-seeded Fort Valley State after which the Morehouse-CSU winner will get No. 2 Edward Waters.
NEC
The NEC doesn’t get an computerized NCAA bid.
The event begins Wednesday with third-seeded LIU vs. sixth-seeded Sacred Coronary heart and No. 4 FDU taking part in fifth-seeded Merrimack. Thursday, the LIU-SH winner will get second-seeded Daemen and the FDU-Merrimack winner performs top-seeded SFU, which went 12-0 within the common season.
ALL-NEC: Nathan Zini of Saint Francis (PA) is the participant of the yr and teammate Peyton Blain is the defensive participant of the yr. Ondrej Arabasz of Daemen is the highest freshman. SFU’s Mike Rumbaugh is the coach of the yr.
Learn the NEC information launch right here.
AVCA
TOP 20: UCLA is No. 1 once more, buying and selling locations with now-No. 2 Lengthy Seashore State. UC Irvine moved up a spot to 3rd, buying and selling locations with now-No. 3 Grand Canyon. Hawai’i stayed No. 5.
There have been no main jumps or falls. Purdue Fort Wayne dropped out and UC San Diego is again in at No. 20.
See the full AVCA Nationwide Collegiate Males’s Volleyball Ballot right here.
POW: The dignity went to Grand Canyon’s Camden Gianni. The senior reverse averaged 4.66 kills per set whereas hitting .470 in back-to-back sweeps of Pepperdine. He additionally averaged 1.16 digs. He’s the primary GCU participant to win the award this season.