At-Large Average Criteria (2021)

One of the things I look at each year is how did the at-large teams compare, on average, with the previous years when it comes to the selection criteria. Specifically, I look at record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and ranked results. Head-to-head and common opponent don’t really come into play here because these vary between……

Region Leaders (2021 Final)

My cover photo is of Sophie Srivastava (Chapman) who was our highest finisher nationally in one of the statistics I track. Special shoutout to Paige Havel (St Thomas) who would have been the Blocks/Set national leader if her team wasn’t reclassifying. Another shoutout to Georgia Mullins who led the nation in Points and another one……

AVCA Top 25 (2021 Final)

The AVCA has released their last Top 25 Poll of the season! You can find my final rankings, here. What’s funny is I think everyone forgot about this one. It was due out yesterday and it could have been posted for all I know, but the AVCA tweet notifying us didn’t come out until this……

Case Study (Ithaca/RIT)

I believe the last case study that I know I wanted to get to was the curious case of Ithaca and the lesser curious case of RIT. Ithaca was the surprise at-large team to those observers who follow the process closely and even one of their players said, “We didn’t think we were going to……

Belhaven to Leave ASC

Belhaven along with the USA South Conference announced yesterday that the Blazers will be switching conferences from the ASC next year. Belhaven was previously an NAIA school before joining DIII and the ASC in 2015. The move will take the ASC down to 9 volleyball teams and will mark the second year in a row……

Case Study (Babson/Springfield)

I know the season has ended but the case studies just continue to get published. This time I wanted to look at Region II. Specifically, the Babson and Springfield ordering. I struggled with these two teams in my ordering before I attempted to figure out the at-large teams so worth another look. I also wanted……

D3VbWest Top 25 (Final)

The AVCA will come out with their final rankings this Tuesday but here is my take on the season. One thing you’ll notice in the AVCA voting is that a lot of coaches will just go by the regional and Elite 8 results. I think this is funny because they are basically saying that the……

2021 Championship

Updates: Nice first set for UWEC. Hitting 0.278. Are they going to ruin my Hitting Percentage Top 11 fun fact? Calvin hit over 0.400 that set and Westra is hitting 0.455 and they are down 2-0. Eau Claire one set away from their first championship. Remember, we haven’t had a championship match go 4 or……

Semifinals (11/19/21)

Updates: Just like I predicted, Juniata jumps out with a set one win. UWEC goes extra to win set two. Juniata really leaned on Taylor and it failed at the end. Juniata with the win in the third set. Up 2-1. Going to a fifth. 12-11 Eau Claire. Taylor is on the front row and……

Quarterfinals (11/18/21)

Updates: Here we go! Best of luck to all. MIT played well but got beat handily in set one. More of the same. Easy win for Juniata. MIT committed more errors in this set. Scoring error? In the Elite 8? Maybe we need to have the manual red blue flip scores at the table. That……