Points/Set – 5 Years of Data

I wanted to continue to look into Team Points/Set (P/S) numbers after my original post. (Side note: I made a critical mistake in my original post, which I now detail at the top of it.) I decided to pull down the statistics for every DIII team over the last 5 years. As a reminder Points……

NWC Cancels Fall Season

Can the last conference or school to decide to cancel the fall volleyball season make sure they turn the lights off? The Northwest Conference has decided to cancel the fall volleyball season and support the efforts to move the season to the spring. What’s interesting about this announcement was that there were some sports (cross……

Spring Season Update

Yesterday the NCAA DIII Management Council approved a proposal to allow schools and conferences to have flexibility in their scheduling. What was done was to immediately waive current bylaws that regulate the playing season and let schools define the playing season by a non-consecutive number of days. In essence, it allows a fluid approach as……

Points Per Set

Update and Warning!!! In doing a follow-up article, I realized that I had an error in the blocks calculations starting with teams following NYU. Basically, teams would be assigned the number of blocks obtained by the next team in alphabetical order! So…gaaag. Please be kind and I’ll leave this up as a monument to my……

New West RAC Chair & Stuff

Whittier College had a press release on Head Coach Chris Duarte-McDermott being named the West Region RAC Chair. In my opinion the RAC Chair is one of the more important positions within the NCAA selection process and it now means that Chris’ picture is now fastened securely in my bullseye. (Note – I’m going with……

NCAA Return-to-Sport Guidelines

The NCAA has just come out with their third publication on resocialization of collegiate sports. There is a lot to take in here as the NCAA has done an outstanding job of laying out a number of processes but the main takeaway for me is that there will be no volleyball this fall. One interesting……

SCAC Cancels Season

Well, Texas let me down. Yeah, that was a joke. The SCAC voted around 48 hours ago to cancel the fall season and gave each program until this morning to notify their players. I was just texting with a coach and she mentioned how “stomach turning to see your athletes’ hearts break in front of……

Wednesday Musing

The Washington Post has an article out on college health centers. Hardin-Simmons is mentioned…and not in a good way. Probably something every parent needs to read and then ask some questions of your child’s school. On a related note and really what would a good musings post be without some good ‘ol stories from grandpa……

Blanket Waivers

Division III student-athletes will not be charged for participating in the 2020-21 season if their school is unable to play more than half of the maximum dates/contests. For volleyball, this number is 22. This means it’s quite likely that even if a school plays a “full” slate of matches this season they still might have……

Baseball & What it Tells Us

Man, I love baseball. It was my favorite sport growing up. My first sports memory is Pete Rose taking out Bud Harrelson back in 1973. I’ve hated Rose ever since and no he does not belong in the Hall of Fame. I was living in Virginia at the time and the Mets were now my……