NCAA Tournament Selection – Art vs. Science

In my last post, I discussed the merits of Berry College when it came to the 2016 NCAA tournament selection. Spoiler alert – they didn’t get in although they appeared to be better than two of the three teams I assume were the last to get bids. Surprisingly, to me, the selection criteria for the……

Case Study – Berry College (2016 NCAA Selection Committee)

Special thanks to NED3VballFan as I used some research you posted on Volleytalk to help with this case study. Each year the NCAA makes tournament selections and each year the NCAA messes up. Now don’t get me wrong as in no way do I mean for this to be critical of the NCAA. Their task……

Sunday’s Musings

Real games in 5 days! Saturday I braved Hurricane Harvey and drove into the teeth of the storm (by “teeth” I mean I was 250 miles away and in no danger) to watch the Southwestern University Alumnae game. A number of the parents/players that are from the Houston/San Antonio area couldn’t make it so that……

SCAC Preseason Poll

Well, the SCAC has finally chimed in with the last preseason poll in the west region (find it here) and it gives us the closest vote in any of our conferences. Trinity and Southwestern share first place votes with 4 each but Trinity ends up with one more point in their total to capture first……

Northwest Conference Preseason Poll

The Northwest Conference has come out with their preseason volleyball poll, which you can find here. Whitworth took 8 of the 9 first place votes (coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team) and finished with 72 points. Pacific Lutheran garnered the other first place vote and finished in second followed closely behind……

SCIAC Preseason Poll

The SCIAC has come out with their preseason volleyball poll, which you can find here. It’s no surprise that CMS has claimed the #1 spot as they garnered all 9 of the first place votes.  The order differs slightly with my predictions, which you can find here. The interesting item that I took from this……

AVCA Top 25 Poll

The AVCA has come out with their DIII preseason Top 25 coaches poll.  Now this is a pretty pointless exercise and means virtually nothing but it does get us a step closer to real games so for that I am thankful.  You can find the link with their poll here.  Calvin is the top-ranked team followed……

ASC Preseason Poll

The ASC have announced their preseason volleyball poll, which you can find here. The most surprising thing to me in the article is that I missed a college participating in the ASC this season!  Not a good start for this blog but I hope you will forgive me.  So, without further ado, please welcome Louisiana……

Prediction – West Region

I will be doing a prediction post each day this week.  Here is the order for the week: Monday – ASC Tuesday – Northwest Conference Wednesday – SCAC Thursday – SCIAC Friday – West Regional Rankings West Regional Rankings Here is my prediction on the top teams in the West Region and where I think……

Predictions – SCIAC

I will be doing a prediction post each day this week.  Here is the order for the week: Monday – ASC Tuesday – Northwest Conference Wednesday – SCAC Thursday – SCIAC Friday – West Regional Rankings NOTE – I will make updates to all of these posts as more rosters get updated.  Check back and……