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Check out all the NORCECA Pan American Cup group-play matches to follow tonight and how to follow the matches live. Continue reading “Pan American Cup matches to follow today”

Check out Off the Block’s interview with Penn State coach Mark Pavlik about the Nittany Lions’ off-season and creating their 2016 schedule. Continue reading “Audio: Penn State coach Pavlik discusses off-season, 2016 schedule”

One day into the Pan American Cup and the United States has suffered a setback.

The United States relinquished a one-game lead as it lost to Venezuela 20-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-18 on Tuesday in its group-play opener at the international tournament in Reno, Nevada. Continue reading “U.S. drops opener to Venezuela at Pan American Cup”

It will be an unusual upcoming season for Penn State given its extensive travel history to play marquee non-conference matches.

Coach Mark Pavlik said in a recent interview with Off the Block that Penn State has scheduled home non-conference matches in 2016 against Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State and the defending-MPSF champions UC Irvine. Continue reading “Long Beach, UC Irvine, CSUN all to travel to Penn State in 2016”

The biggest non-conference match of the season for IPFW will be not only during its opening week but at home.

IPFW announced recently that it has agreed to play Stanford on Jan. 9 in the first meeting between the two schools in almost a decade. Continue reading “Stanford to travel to IPFW for 2016 non-conference match”

The site of the 2016 NCAA Tournament will also be the location for one of the biggest non-conference events at the start of the upcoming season.

Penn State coach Mark Pavlik said in a recent with Off the Block that his team will open the season with a home non-conference showcase featuring Ohio State, UCLA and USC. Continue reading “Penn State schedules home matches vs. UCLA, USC to open 2016 season”

Check out Off the Block’s interview with Princeton coach Sam Shweisky about the team’s off-season and its schedule for the upcoming season. Continue reading “Audio: Princeton coach Shweisky discusses busy off-season”

UCLA will once again have a home non-conference match against Princeton during the upcoming season.

Princeton coach Sam Shweisky said in an interview with Off the Block earlier this week that his team and UCLA have agreed to play each other for the second straight year. Continue reading “UCLA, Princeton agree to non-conference match for 2016 season”

Princeton for the first time in its program history will have a home match against Ohio State.

Princeton coach Sam Shweisky said in a recent interview with Off the Block that the Tigers will play host to the Buckeyes for a non-conference match early in the 2016 season. Continue reading “Princeton schedules big home match vs. Ohio State for 2016”

For the second consecutive year, five NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams earned national academic honor.

The AVCA announced Wednesday that Cal Baptist, George Mason, Grand Canyon, Harvard and NJIT all received the organization’s annual Team Academic Award. Continue reading “Record 5 teams receive national academic award”