Bingham (HSU) Resigns

Hardin-Simmons Head Coach Sabrina Bingham has resigned to take on a new position as the Director of Volleyball Operations for the Abilene Youth Sports Authority (AYSA). I heard the news originally second hand and reached out to Sabrina. She responded, “I am excited for this next step. I love working with the youth in this……

At-Large Criteria (West Perspective)

Yesterday I posted an article on the average criteria needed to secure an at-large bid. Today I wanted to focus a bit on the West Region with respect to what I wrote. As a short reminder, the average criteria of the 20 at-large teams for record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and ranked wins in 2019……

At-Large Average Criteria (2019)

Of the five primary criteria there are three that come into play in each comparison and by this virtue become the most important. They are record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and ranked wins. Although ranked wins is, by the rules, result driven and not percentage driven I still capture the percentage because frankly it seems……

Re-Seeding Announced

The NCAA sure took their time with this. I can only imagine the conflict there must have been. Last year the seeding was released right around 11 p.m. Eastern. This year it took them until 11:50 p.m. In the end, here are the seeds: Emory Johns Hopkins Calvin Carthage Bowdoin Trinity Saint Benedict Clarkson This……

Regional Wrap-Up

Wanted to do a little wrap-up after the regionals were over this weekend. Let’s start with the seeding of the 8 teams. It should come out tonight but my best guess is Emory, Calvin, Carthage, Johns Hopkins, Trinity, St. Ben, Clarkson and Bowdoin. Trinity and Johns Hopkins could be switched but I have them playing……

Regionals Day 4

Updates: Remember that the NCAA will reseed the Elite 8 teams when they go to the championship on Thursday. With two teams in, I believe Calvin is your current #1 while St. Ben is #2. Six more to go! Trinity rolls over Marymount in the first set that ends 25-13. Clarkson and Ithaca is closer……

Regionals Day 3

Updates:  Both Trinity and Colorado College are playing and both are up 1-0 in their matches. In other matches, JWU is up 1-0 on Babson. Wesleyan leads Ithaca. Both Trinity and Colorado College are now up 2-0. I will saw that Colorado College looks really good. They have a bunch of seniors and it shows.……