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Several teams outside the top 10 of the national rankings have a chance to get a statement victory tonight.
Hawai’i and Cal State Northridge highlight the slate of matches tonight as both teams try to move up in the MPSF standings. In addition, Princeton will attempt to bounce back from a winless West Coast road trip with a non-conference match against IPFW.
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It’s all about the rematch tonight in college men’s volleyball.
No. 8 BYU and No. 7 UC Irvine will play each other for the first time since their meeting in the 2013 NCAA finals. In addition, No. 1 Stanford will travel to play No. 6 UCLA in a rematch of the two teams’ season-opener earlier this month
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The start to the college men’s volleyball season is still a few weeks away, but teams are already beginning the process of trying to fill their stands for the upcoming season.
While a majority of college men’s volleyball teams do not charge admission for regular season matches, several teams that do charge admission have released their season-ticket and single-match ticket options.
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The future sites for the men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament are about to be unveiled.
The NCAA will announce Wednesday morning the four schools from the seven finalists that will get to play host to a men’s volleyball Division I-II NCAA Tournament between 2015 to 2018.
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Sixteen college men’s volleyball players have been selected to the 2014 watch list for a new national award.
Off the Block on Tuesday afternoon unveiled its watch list for the inaugural Lloy Ball Award.
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The National Setter of the Year award will be renamed to honor one of the best setters in college men’s volleyball and USA Volleyball history.
Off the Block announced Monday that the new national college men’s volleyball award will be named after former IPFW All-American setter and four-time U.S. Olympian Lloy Ball.
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After more than a dozen of bids were sumbitted, it’s now down to seven finalists to host the men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament in the upcoming years.
The NCAA announced Wednesday afternoon that BYU, UCLA, IPFW, Ohio State, Penn State, USC and Stanford were all selected as finalists to play host to a NCAA Tournament between 2015 to 2018.
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All the bids are in, but where the men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament will be played in the upcoming seasons remain uncertain.
The NCAA on Wednesday is scheduled to announce the finalists and potentially the host sites for the 2015-18 NCAA Tournaments. While the NCAA did not reveal the names of the more than 20 bids submitted to host an upcoming men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament, there are several locations that could be ideal venues for the event.
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A former IPFW assistant coach will go up against his Hall of Fame mentor in non-conference play this upcoming season.
Lees-McRae with its new head coach Dave Schmidlin have agreed to play a road non-conference match against IPFW during the 2014 season.
Schmidlin spent 10 seasons as an assistant under AVCA Hall of Fame coach Arnie Ball and helped guide the Mastodons to two NCAA Tournament appearances in the 1990s. In addition, Schmidlin spent time as a head coach at Cardinal Stritch before being hired as Lees-McRae new head coach in April.
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Changes are coming to Princeton’s non-conference schedule for the upcoming season with more Midwest teams traveling to Dillon Gym.
Princeton coach Sam Shweisky said earlier this week in an interview with Off the Block that his team will play home non-conference matches against Ball State and IPFW during the 2014 season.
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