Saturday, August 31 Match Day

Updates: I’ll update through out the day. Initial thoughts are at the bottom of this post. Centenary hasn’t updated their results from yesterday. That’s just wrong. I can’t tell you how Whittier looked against Carthage but the deals at the Lucky outlet are really good. I’m going to assume the Poets should have won but……

Friday, August 30 Match Day

Updates: I’ll update with comments through the day. Remember the tournament post might have links to the different tournaments. My initial thoughts about today’s matches are at the bottom of this post. Feel free to communicate final results through the comments. Just interested in the sets won. Carthage sweeps Whitworth as I was driving down.……

D3VbWest Preseason All-Region Team

Here is the second annual preseason D3VbWest All-Region Awards. The best (as I think it’s the only) preseason awards given out to DIII volleyball anywhere! Here are the ground rules: I follow the AVCA end-of-the-year format and go with 14 first team members and 6 honorable mentions. I listed awards for player of the year,……

West Region Tournaments – Week 1

I dropped a podcast that goes over where the top teams in the nation are playing week 1 and then ranks those tournaments based on the quality of the teams. I also looked at where possible upsets could occur. You can find links on my Podcast Page. This post deals with where the West Region……

SCIAC Preseason Poll

The SCIAC has released their preseason coaches’ poll, which you can find here. My SCIAC Preview/Prediction post done earlier matches exactly the top 4 teams the coaches have but the differences creep in starting at #5. Starting with top 4 teams, the coaches have CMS followed by Cal Lutheran, Chapman and then Pomona-Pitzer. CMS claimed……

Quality Win Index

I figure I should get to this BEFORE the season starts but our good ‘ol friend “Ned” from New England has generated a preseason gauge on the quality of everyone’s schedule in DIII. Readers from last year may remember that Ned created the Quality Win Index (QWI) which assigns points for each win a team……

NWC Preseason Poll

The NWC has released their preseason volleyball coaches poll, which you can find here. My NWC preview/prediction post differs quite a bit more than we’ve seen with the ASC or SCAC polls. To start with, we differ on the predicted conference champion. The NWC coaches have Pacific Lutheran winning where I had the Lutes coming……

Monday Musings

4 days until volleyball. I am trying to procrastinate because my preseason D3VbWest All-Region team post is really nightmare to do. So many ways to get things wrong. Ugh. So, instead, I just finished a podcast that talks about the tougher schedules nationally. There is also a sidebar that looks at what teams that weren’t……

Roster Analysis – Part 5

This is my fifth and final installment of my roster analysis series. I know I didn’t do all of the teams but I think I hit the contenders and some of the pretenders going into 2019. Here were my previous installments: Southwestern, Trinity and UT-Dallas CMS, Concordia and Pomona-Pitzer La Verne, Mary Hardin-Baylor and Whittier……

ASC Preseason Poll

The ASC has come out with their preseason poll, which you can find here. My ASC preview post was released earlier and exactly matches the ASC poll with the exception of the placement of McMurry and Concordia (we have them swapped). In the ASC poll, both the coaches and SID vote on the ordering so……