Calm before the Storm

Yes, the title could be referring to the fact that the Elite 8 is set to start play tomorrow morning and don’t worry I’ll touch on that, but for me personally my daughter gets married in 3 days. As we approach the ceremony I’ve started to realize that every day that has just concluded is……

Bingham (HSU) Resigns

Hardin-Simmons Head Coach Sabrina Bingham has resigned to take on a new position as the Director of Volleyball Operations for the Abilene Youth Sports Authority (AYSA). I heard the news originally second hand and reached out to Sabrina. She responded, “I am excited for this next step. I love working with the youth in this……

AVCA All-Americans (2019)

The AVCA All-American teams have been announced, which you can find here. The AVCA Freshman of the year is Emma Davis of Juniata. The player of the year will be announced tomorrow at the championship banquet. The West Region had only one student-athlete make the first team and that was Phoebe Madsen of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. She……

At-Large Criteria (West Perspective)

Yesterday I posted an article on the average criteria needed to secure an at-large bid. Today I wanted to focus a bit on the West Region with respect to what I wrote. As a short reminder, the average criteria of the 20 at-large teams for record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and ranked wins in 2019……

At-Large Average Criteria (2019)

Of the five primary criteria there are three that come into play in each comparison and by this virtue become the most important. They are record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and ranked wins. Although ranked wins is, by the rules, result driven and not percentage driven I still capture the percentage because frankly it seems……

Re-Seeding Announced

The NCAA sure took their time with this. I can only imagine the conflict there must have been. Last year the seeding was released right around 11 p.m. Eastern. This year it took them until 11:50 p.m. In the end, here are the seeds: Emory Johns Hopkins Calvin Carthage Bowdoin Trinity Saint Benedict Clarkson This……

Regional Wrap-Up

Wanted to do a little wrap-up after the regionals were over this weekend. Let’s start with the seeding of the 8 teams. It should come out tonight but my best guess is Emory, Calvin, Carthage, Johns Hopkins, Trinity, St. Ben, Clarkson and Bowdoin. Trinity and Johns Hopkins could be switched but I have them playing……