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Days away from the start of the postseason and the field is even tighter for a possible at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament
Off the Block has crunched the numbers using the same criteria as the selection committee to show how the top teams in the nation fare against each other in the race for the two at-large bids and NCAA Tournament seeding. Continue reading “NCAA Tournament Projections: Team comparisons using selection committee criteria”
Chairman Ron Shayka is the first to admit his fellow selection committee members and him face unprecedented challenges in the sport’s history for the upcoming men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament.
With a new postseason format, Shayka said in an interview with Off the Block earlier this week that the committee is having to figure out everything from difficult team travel logistics to awarding at-large bids in tight and large field of bubble teams.
Continue reading “Q&A with NCAA Tournament selection committee chairman Ron Shayka”
With Selection Sunday almost a month away, the races for the at-large bids and NCAA Tournament seeding is getting tighter but the teams on the bubble still in contention remains unprecedentedly large.
Off the Block has crunched the numbers using the same criteria as the selection committee to show how the top teams in the nation fare against each other in the race for the two at-large bids and NCAA Tournament seeding. Continue reading “NCAA Tournament Projections: Team comparisons using selection committee criteria”
The at-large bid bubble is gigantic and with less than a month until the start of the postseason almost a dozen schools still have a realistic chance to make the newly expanded NCAA Tournament field.
Off the Block has crunched the numbers using the same criteria as the selection committee to show how the top teams in the nation fare against each other in the race for the two at-large bids and NCAA Tournament seeding.
Continue reading “NCAA Tournament Projections: Team comparisons using selection committee criteria”
The deputy athletics director from UC Irvine will join the committee that determines the field for the men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament.
UC Irvine senior associate athletics director Paula Smith was selected as the West Coast representative for the three-person NCAA men’s volleyball committee.
Continue reading “UC Irvine associate AD added to NCAA Tourney selection committee”
The men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament will have a new format starting in the upcoming season.
The NCAA announced Wednesday a series of postseason reforms including adding a second play-in match and expanding the NCAA Tournament field to six teams.
Continue reading “Video: Reaction, analysis to NCAA Tournament expansion”
It took almost 40 years, but expansion as arrived to the men’s volleyball Division I-II NCAA Tournament.
The NCAA sent a memo to coaches and conference commissioners Wednesday morning stating it will add another play-in match and increase the NCAA Tournament to six teams beginning in 2014.
Continue reading “NCAA Tourney to have 2 play-in matches starting in 2014”
Add MPSF commissioner Al Beaird to the growing list of people unhappy with the college men’s volleyball RPI.
Beaird in an email sent to the NCAA men’s volleyball committee called the new ranking system flawed and criticized its use to analyze a team’s strength of schedule.
Continue reading “MPSF commissioner Beaird criticizes new men’s volleyball RPI system”
The bids are officially all in from schools vying to host the men’s volleyball Division I-II NCAA Tournament in upcoming years.
NCAA officials informed Off the Block via email Tuesday that 21 bids were submitted to the league office requesting the right to host a college men’s volleyball national championship during the next five years.
Continue reading “Committee receives 21 bids to host future men’s volleyball NCAA Tournaments”
The NCAA will be picking up the tab for the inaugural men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament play-in match this upcoming season.
The NCAA’s Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet voted last week to modify its policy on play-in matches and will begin to start paying for all team expenses associated with new postseason match.
Continue reading “NCAA to pay team expenses for newly created play-in match”
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