On this version of Volleyball Right this moment, we’ve received 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 data on the Laguna Seaside Open:
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
Postseason is upon us.
The Patriot League convention event 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 dealing with 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 event begins Sunday in Kansas Metropolis.
The Ohio Valley Convention has an identical state of affairs. 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 residence 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 similar to the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, there was little motion on the high of the AVCA Division I Girls’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 by Sunday
The pc rankings aren’t the be-all end-all with regards to the NCAA Event bracket, nevertheless it provides a reasonably good thought 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 residence 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 stated, 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 workforce within the event. Exceptions are the Huge East, the place definitely 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 powerful chance.
Others that might get multiple if the favorites are upset embrace 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 contemplate 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 Pressure 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 right now.
McShane, who performed at UC Santa Barbara then on the lads’s membership workforce at BYU, was a USA nationwide workforce assistant coach and likewise 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 Event as soon as, in 2015.
WKU plans Travis Hudson statue
His success is effectively 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 can be without end immortalized at Diddle Enviornment 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.
“… Because of this, we’ve got additionally commissioned famend sculptor Russ Faxon to design and produce a life-size statue of Travis that can 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 complete head teaching victories among the many 4 sports activities he coached at WKU). Hudson has led his Hilltoppers to 33 Convention Championships, 16 NCAA Event appearances (together with the 2020-21 Candy 16), been named Convention Coach of the 12 months 11 occasions and AVCA South Area Coach of the 12 months seven occasions, had 64 first-team all-conference honorees, 12 All-People (together with 4, four-time All-People), 11 Convention Gamers of the 12 months, seven Freshmen of the 12 months, seven Defensive Gamers of the 12 months, six South Area Gamers of the 12 months and 5 Setters of the 12 months.
Click on right here for the full information launch.
Laguna Open begins Friday
The professional seashore event begins with the qualifier on Friday, modified pool play and the beginning of playoffs on Saturday, and it finishes on Sunday.
The highest ladies’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 Cook 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.