Friday Musings (Updated)

Caltech announced their recruits and they actually have two students from out of the country coming in to play volleyball. (And study, I think. Joke.) Welcome to Giulia Murgia who is from Istituto di Istruzione Superiore G.Asproni, Iglesias, Italy and to Olivia Xu who is from Markham, Ontario, Canada. I don’t think I’ve seen any……

2022 Schedule Analysis Part III

This is my third and final roundup of the West Region’s schedules. You can find my previous analysis here and here. This time we have the remaining 13 schools assuming Sul Ross State and Whittier get back to me before I finish this article. If so, we’ll have discussed all 37 teams in Region X……

5th Anniversary!

Finally out of diapers as the website turns 5 today. Yeah, it took a little longer than most but thankfully it happened before the site had to enter kindergarten. Our fifth year brought a little normalcy back as we didn’t have to deal with a spring season and we actually got a championship. As always,……

2022 Tournament Preview (Week 2)

We turn our attention to the second week of the schedule and the tournaments where the Region X teams will head and the opponents they will face. Immediately, we see that the ASC (with their new schedule format implemented last year) has some issues as four teams will already start conference play. These teams are……

2022 Tournament Preview (Week 1)

Not all of the schedules are published but I like to look at the tournaments held in the first weeks to see where our schools are playing and whether any are competing against good out-of-region teams. One thing to note is that the season starts on September 1st but that day falls on a Thursday.……

D3VbWest Preseason Top 25

Time for the much too early D3VbWest Top 25 where I have correctly named the champion for the last 4-years (including the Covid year) before one official match had ever been played. In all seriousness, this is a pointless exercise where I spend way too much time trying to figure out something that warrants very……

Statistics Loss – Nationally

Here is your last statistics loss article for the 2021 season. This should have been done at the start of the year but it is what it is. I previewed the five teams with the worst statistics loss so let’s take a look at everyone nationally with this article. My rule of thumb is 45%……

National Preview – Statistics Loss (or Yikes!)

The calendar has turned to July and that’s when things start to ramp up in the 10-story office complex that houses the D3VbWest staff of writers, editors and groupies. By this time, I’ve usually finished my look at statistics loss but I still have, yet, to put out the national article. While doing that research……