Friday, August 31 Match Day

Update: The West Region takes the first game of the day as UTD gets by UW-Superior 25-20. Welcome back Zeng and Brinkman!!!! That brace on Zeng hurts me just to look at it. Too many errors for both teams but that’s to be expected. Tough serving game by UTD and the early hitting leader is……

D3VBWest Preseason All-Region Team

I really debated doing this. As far as I know there are no preseason All-Region teams anywhere, so why don’t I put one together? Am I going to be right? No. Am I going to be close? Jury is out. Will this make more people mad than happy? Probably. Am I still going to do……

SCAC Preseason Poll

The SCAC is out with their preseason poll, which you can find here. This is the final conference preseason poll from the West Region and the first that matches my predictions. Now, I’m not saying the SCAC coaches are just smarter than the other conference coaches, but I’m not not saying it either. (Love a……

SCIAC Preseason Poll

The SCIAC came out with their conference preseason poll as voted on by their coaches, which you can find here. The interesting thing with this poll is not that CMS was voted to finish first in the conference but the one SCIAC coach that voted Caltech first! Yes, the 2017 last place finishing Caltech volleyball……

Tuesday Musings

I reached out to the SCAC and SCIAC as to when they would drop their conference predictions and both came back and said Wednesday. Thursday I want to publish my D3VBWest Preseason All-West Region team so that leaves today with nothing but some musing. One of the things I can wish upon every team is……

NWC Preseason Poll

The NWC has released their preseason volleyball poll, which you can find here. You can find my predictions here. The conference poll is done by the coaches but they could not vote for their own team. With 9 teams that means 8 votes possible for each team with a minimum score of 8 and a……

Tournament Information (Week 1)

Here are the weekend tournaments for week 1 where the West Region teams are playing. Any link I could find is attached to the name of the tournament. I’ll still come out with the daily schedules on game days. Austin College Classic Austin College, Centenary, Concordia, Dallas, Hardin-Simmons, Hendrix, Louisiana College, Millsaps and Schreiner. Belhaven……

Sunday Musings

Last weekend before games begin! I’m a little surprised how late the NWC, SCAC and SCIAC preseason poll predictions are coming out. Either that or I’m a little surprised I haven’t noticed that they already came out!?! It’s really alumni weekend with a number of schools getting this extra scrimmage in against past players. I’m……

West Region Super Powers

As I was reading through Ned’s statistics and his definition of “excellent” teams, I started thinking about the true super powers of DIII volleyball. Calvin, WUSTL and Emory immediately jump to my mind. And, of course, there is Wittenberg, St. Thomas and Juniata among others. Then I started thinking about the West Region and our……

Early Retirement (2018)

As we wait for the conferences to announce their predictions on the year and, of course, the matches to start, I went ahead and started to collect data on early retirement. Early retirement was the phrase Ned (our reader from New England) coined for non-seniors that left the team before their eligibility had expired. It……