Volleyball Right now: NCAA first-round schedule; NIVC discipline, data; one other coach fired

After the 64-team NCAA Event discipline was revealed, the NIVC 29-team bracket bracket was introduced. All the information follows.

The NCAA tourney schedule is about and we’ll checklist the first-round matches.

The teaching carousel, which is prone to construct up some pace now that the common season is completed, spun at UCF.

Later Monday we can have our remaining VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot of the season. Our identical pollsters will be voting on our NCAA Division I All-American crew that will submit on December 24, two days after the championship match.

NCAA tourney first spherical

There are 18 matches Thursday. They aren’t beginning early within the day, nor are they unfold out. We suggest a number of viewing units, since each match shall be proven solely on ESPN+. ESPN will even have its whiparound present, The Fifth Set, which can be one of the best ways for a lot of viewers to maintain up.

All instances are Japanese:

3:30 — Loyola Chicago vs. BYU
4:30 — Western Kentucky vs. Minnesota
5 — UT Arlington vs. USC
5 — Texas State vs. Missouri
5:30 — Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech
5:30 — Ole Miss vs. Florida State
5:30 — South Carolina vs. Dayton
6:30 — Purdue vs. Western Michigan
6:30 — FGCU vs. Marquette
7 — Hawai’i vs. TCU
7:30 — Cleveland State vs. Kentucky
7:30 — Texas vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
8 — South Dakota vs. Creigton
8 — Wichita State vs. SMU
8 — Wisconsin vs. Fairfield
8 — Wofford vs. Baylor
9:30 — Excessive Level vs. Oregon
9:30 — Utah vs. Faculty of Charleston

There are 14 extra first-round matches Friday:

4 — UTEP vs. Oklahoma
4 — Illinois vs. UNI
5 — North Carolina vs. Yale
5 — Florida vs. NC State
5:30 — South Dakota State vs. Miami
6:30 — Texas A&M vs. Colorado State
7 — Louisville vs. Chicago State
7 — Pittsburgh vs. Morehead State
7:30 — Penn State vs. Delaware State
7:30 –Washington vs. LMU
7:30 — Kansas vs. Colgate
8 — Nebraska vs. Florida A&M
8:30 — Arizona State vs. New Hampshire
10 — Stanford vs. Sacramento State

NIVC discipline consists of Arizona, Virginia

Right here’s the checklist of groups:

App State (18-9), Solar Belt
Arizona (20-9), Large 12
Arkansas State (26-5), Solar Belt
Binghamton (19-10), America East
Bowling Inexperienced (21-9), Mid-American
DePaul (19-13), Large East
East Carolina (18-9), American
Georgia Southern (21-6), Solar Belt
Idaho State (21-9), Large Sky
Jackson State (19-11), SWAC
Lindenwood (23-10), Ohio Valley
Mercer (26-6), Southern (AQ)
North Carolina A&T (17-10), CAA
Northern Colorado (25-7), Large Sky
Omaha (16-12), Summit
Pacific (18-12), West Coast
Stephen F. Austin (23-8), Southland
Southeast Missouri State (19-13), Ohio Valley
St. John’s (21-12), Large East
Toledo (17-14), Mid-American
UConn (24-7), Large East
Utah Valley (20-10), WAC
UTRGV (16-11), Southland
Virginia (21-10), Atlantic Coast
Washington State (16-11), West Coast
Winthrop (16-10), Large South
Weber State (14-15), Large Sky
Wright State (24-6), Horizon
Wyoming (15-12), Mountain West

Arizona, Virginia and Wright State received first-round byes. 

The match begins Wednesday when Binghamton performs at Bowling Inexperienced. See the full schedule and get extra data right here.

Value noting: App State vs. Northern Colorado includes a former LSU participant in UNC coach Lyndsey Benson Oates and a former LSU assistant in App State head coach Sarah Rumely Noble … Two of the nation’s prime attackers are within the match, Pacific’s Alexa Edwards (fifth within the NCAA with 540 kills) and Binghamton’s Tsvetelina Ilieva (thirteenth, 514) … Lindenwood received the Ohio Valley Convention Championship — sweeping Morehead State — however was ineligible for the NCAA Event as a result of it’s in transition from Division II … Virginia is shifting up. The crew had 10 extra wins than it did in 2023 … Bowling Inexperienced’s Alexis Mettile is hitting .444, fifth within the NCAA.

UCF wants a volleyball coach

UCF, which completed 9-18 this season, 2-15 within the Large 12, fired coach Jenny Maurer. 

The college had simply this on its web site:

We would really like to thank Jenny Maurer for her dedication and dedication to our volleyball program and student-athletes over the previous 9 years. This weekend we met with Jenny to tell her that we might be shifting in a distinct course concerning the management of our program. A nationwide seek for a brand new head coach will start instantly.

Maurer changed Todd Dagenais when he left to educate the Atlanta Vibe in final yr’s first season of the Professional Volleyball Federation. In 2022, UCF went 28-2, 19-1 within the American Athletic Convention. In Maurer’s first season, UCF completed 17-12, 8-10 in its first yr within the Large 12.

Maurer, a former head coach at Lehigh and Bradley, was Dagenais’ prime assistant for seven years earlier than taking up. She was a two-time Division III All-American at Washington College.

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