It’s tourney time!
Convention championships start Thursday within the ASUN, CAA, MAAC, SoCon, Solar Belt and WAC. All of these are one-and-done leagues, which means solely the conference-tournament winner will get a bid to the 64-team NCAA Match bracket.
There was big-time regular-season drama Wednesday as No. 6 Wisconsin needed to go to additional time to carry off visiting No. 17 Minnesota and No. 22 TCU pulled off a reverse sweep over visiting Houston.
Southeast Missouri State received the Ohio Valley Convention regular-season title and Northern Iowa did the identical within the Missouri Valley Convention.
The road of the day: Florida’s Kennedy Martin had 31 extra kills because the sophomore proper facet hit .333 and had an ace, 10 digs and 4 blocks in a four-set SEC win at Auburn.
The teaching carousel spun once more, choosing up velocity as three NCAA Division I groups are on the lookout for coaches.
LOVB has to like this: League One Volleyball, which begins it first professional season in January, has $100 million in dedicated new funding.
And there’s extra professional seashore volleyball, this time in India.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball Right now:
NCAA volleyball Thursday
First the regular-season matches of observe.
There’s an enormous one within the Massive Ten when No. 5 Penn State performs host to No. 10 Purdue. No. 14 Oregon goes to Michigan State, No. 21 USC is at Northwestern and Maryland is at Michigan.
Within the Massive 12, No. 8 Arizona State is dwelling for Iowa State, No. 16 Utah is dwelling for West Virginia, No. 24 BYU is dwelling for Cincinnati and Arizona is at Colorado.
Northern Colorado, which holds a two-game lead over Sacramento State and Weber State within the Bg Sky, is dwelling for Idaho. Sacramento State is dwelling for Idaho State and Weber State goes to Portland State.
Cal Poly, UC Davis and idle Hawai’i are 12-4 atop the Massive West. Cal Poly goes to UC Riverside and UC Davis is dwelling for UC Santa Barbara.
Within the Mountain West, the place solely the highest six groups make the convention match, Colorado State holds a one-game lead within the loss column over idle Fresno State and a one-game lead over Utah State. CSU is dwelling for Nevada and Utah State goes to Wyoming. Fourth-place San Jose State has already received its match at sixth-place Boise State, since Boise State is forfeiting. Fifth-place San Diego State is dwelling for New Mexico.
Loyola Marymount, up by two video games within the West Coast Convention over San Diego and Pepperdine, is at Pacific. San Diego is dwelling for Gonzaga and Pepperdine goes to Saint Mary’s.
As talked about, 5 convention championships start Thursday. Click on on any convention to go to their respective match web sites: ASUN, CAA, MAAC, SoCon, Solar Belt, WAC.
NCAA volleyball Wednesday
Wisconsin rallied for a 25-21,12-25, 22-25, 25-20, 20-18 victory over Minnesota. Learn the Wisconsin account right here and the Minnesota account right here. Additionally within the Massive Ten, Nebraska hit .472 and swept Iowa, which scored a complete of 42 factors and hit .082 …
TCU, which was fairly near sweeping, finally received its Massive 12 match over visiting Houston 25-27, 24-26, 25-18, 25-14, 18-16. Melanie Parra had 24 kills, two assists, seven of her workforce’s 11 aces, 14 digs and two blocks. Jalyn Gibson had 24 digs to go together with 15 kills, two assists, two aces and a block. Houston’s Kate Georgiades had 36 digs, 4 assists and an ace. Additionally within the Massive 12, No. 17 Baylor swept visiting Texas Tech and UCF beat visiting Kansas State in 5. Emily Wilson had 23 kills for UCF, whereas Okay-State received 25 from Aniya Clinton …
No. 12 Kentucky saved its one-game lead over Florida because the Wildcats swept visiting Mississippi State and No. 22 Florida received in 4 at Auburn. Martin, who had these 31 kills, had 32 in her final match, a win at Missouri. She had 31 two earlier instances this season. Eli McKissock had 31 digs and three assists. Auburn has misplaced 9 in a row and 10 of 11 …
In the one ACC. match, Boston Faculty received in 5 at Syracuse as Audrey Ross had 21 kills, an help, eight digs and 5 blocks, and NCAA blocks chief Julia Hagerty had 11 blocks, two solo, to go together with seven kills. Sydney Moore additionally had seven kills and 11 blocks for Syracuse …
Southeast Missouri swept to beat visiting SIUE for the second straight evening and received the Ohio Valley Convention regular-season title and is the highest seed within the league match. Abby Johnson and Lucy Arndt had 12 kills every for Southeast Missouri. Additionally within the OVC, second-place Lindenwood swept at Little Rock as three gamers had 11 kills every …
Northern Iowa accomplished back-to-back 18-0 Missouri Valley Convention seasons with a sweep of visiting second-place Drake.
Elon, LA Tech, Holy Cross want volleyball coaches
Mary Tendler, who has been at Elon for 22 seasons, is retiring from teaching. The Phoenix completed 11-18 this season, 5-13 within the CAA, shedding its final 10 matches.
From the Elon information launch:
The 2021 CAA Coach of the 12 months and 2010 Southern Convention Coach of the 12 months, Tendler led Elon by means of the transition to the Southern Convention in her first season in 2003 after which oversaw the transfer to the CAA in the course of the 2014 season.
Tendler had 10 seasons with a minimum of a .500 file, together with two 20-win campaigns. In 2021 the Phoenix superior to its first look within the CAA Championship match. The 2024 workforce made a six-win enchancment over the earlier season, garnering three extra convention victories.
Elon has by no means been to the NCAA Match.
Two sixth-year coaches are gone from packages that haven’t had profitable data in a very long time.
Louisiana Tech, which completed 8-23, 2-16 in Convention USA, has fired Amber McCray. She went 50-115 throughout her time in Ruston.
Louisiana Tech, which final had a profitable season in 2003, has by no means been to the NCAA Match.
And Holy Cross fired Kathleen Colpoys, an alum who had an excellent profession on the faculty from 2007-2011. Her Crusaders completed 2-23 this season, 0-16 within the Patriot League. In her six years on the helm, Holy Cross went 21-124.
Holy Cross, which has not had a profitable file since 1989, has by no means been to the NCAA Division I match.
LOVB provides $100 million
As talked about, League One Volleyball raised $100 million in dedicated new funding, led by Atwater Capital—a women-founded personal fairness agency identified for its give attention to media and leisure and notable investments in firms like Plan B and 88rising—alongside current buyers, Ares Administration funds (“Ares”) and Left Lane Capital.
“The preliminary concept behind LOVB was to introduce a youth to professional ecosystem strategy from the onset, however what we’ve been in a position to obtain with LOVB is the chance to champion athletes all through their whole volleyball journey,” stated LOVB co-founder and CEO Katlyn Gao. “We imagine that is the subsequent wave of sport, ranging from the grassroots as much as construct skilled pathways. By connecting our membership athletes to our professionals, we’re supporting the subsequent technology of gamers and making a bond unmatched by different leagues. As the game of volleyball continues to develop not simply in measurement however in recognition, we’re humbled to be rolling up our sleeves alongside main buyers like Atwater, Ares and Left Lane Capital to allow volleyball to grow to be the subsequent main league.”
LOVB, which earlier introduced a partnership with girls’s clothier SPANX, just lately added REVOLVE, which can grow to be the official on-line vogue retail associate for the corporate.
Seaside Professional Tour Problem in India
The Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour has a Problem occasion in Chennai, India, and it began with a qualifier Thursday.
As this was compiled Individuals Tim Brewster and Wyatt Harrison, Derek Bradford and Theo Brunner and Taylor Crabb had all received their first-round matches and one other pair, Cody Caldwell and Evan Cory, joined them within the second spherical. Caldwell and Cory are coming off their Haikou Problem victory final weekend in China.
On the ladies’s facet in India, two USA pairs superior.
Alaina Chacon and Molly Phillips received their first-round qualifier match however then misplaced to Individuals Savvy Simo and Abby Van Winkle. Toni Rodriguez and Molly Shaw, the highest seed within the qualifier, defeated a workforce from Norway.
