Division III Cancels Fall – Official

Citing the health and safety of the DIII student-athlete, coaches, administrators and the communities as their priority, Division III Presidents’ Council has cancelled the fall championships. Not much more to say here as everything has led up to this. I assume schools can still go their own way if they can find opponents but I……

NCAA’s Non-Decision

The Board of Directors have descended from the mountain top with their 3…whoops…2 tablets and have decreed that rope shall be giveth to each Division for them to decide how to hang themselves. I mean there was a lot more to it, but that’s basically it. Politically, I think they actually did the right thing……

Is Today (scratch that) Tomorrow the Day?

Update (8:30 pm) – Looks like the NCAA is still discussing things. They say wait for tomorrow. Rumors on Twitter seem to indicate that the NCAA will punt their decision down to the individual divisions. This allows them to cancel DII and DIII but keep the dream alive for DI. However they decide to do……

Anniversary Time

Another year and another anniversary for this website (3rd, if you’re counting at home). This marriage does seem to have hit a rocky portion, but I did promise “through sickness and health” so I’ll be sticking with it. In all seriousness, thank you to all of my readers. It always trips me out when I……

NCAA Shrugs Shoulders

The NCAA put out a release that says basically nothing about whether they will cancel the fall championships. In fairness, this isn’t an easy decision but at some levels it really is. The Board of Governors decided to continue the discussion in August. So, look away. Nothing to see here. This non-decision keeps hope alive……

SCIAC & ASC Cancel Fall Season

The SCIAC has announced that they are canceling the fall season for high risk sports, which includes volleyball. We had already seen four schools out of the SCIAC cancel but this seals the fate for the rest of the programs. We are still awaiting word from the NCAA about the future of the 2020 National……

Points/Set – 5 Years of Data

I wanted to continue to look into Team Points/Set (P/S) numbers after my original post. (Side note: I made a critical mistake in my original post, which I now detail at the top of it.) I decided to pull down the statistics for every DIII team over the last 5 years. As a reminder Points……

NWC Cancels Fall Season

Can the last conference or school to decide to cancel the fall volleyball season make sure they turn the lights off? The Northwest Conference has decided to cancel the fall volleyball season and support the efforts to move the season to the spring. What’s interesting about this announcement was that there were some sports (cross……

Spring Season Update

Yesterday the NCAA DIII Management Council approved a proposal to allow schools and conferences to have flexibility in their scheduling. What was done was to immediately waive current bylaws that regulate the playing season and let schools define the playing season by a non-consecutive number of days. In essence, it allows a fluid approach as……

Points Per Set

Update and Warning!!! In doing a follow-up article, I realized that I had an error in the blocks calculations starting with teams following NYU. Basically, teams would be assigned the number of blocks obtained by the next team in alphabetical order! So…gaaag. Please be kind and I’ll leave this up as a monument to my……