East/West Challenge

I haven’t really looked around for schedules, but I’m sure some teams are starting to post them. My Latvian hackers did uncover the East/West Classic 2023 schedule so I thought I’d write about that to fill all of our time. To start with, what the heck are we calling this tournament? Classic? Challenge? Battle? I……

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……

D3VbWest All-Region Team (2021)

The AVCA will put out their All-Region team on Thursday (I think), but for the third year in a row I’m also doing an All-Region team. I like to get my version out first so it doesn’t appear I’m cheating off the smart kid in class (shout out to Miles for getting me through chemistry).……

D3VbWest Top 25 (11/9/21)

The most useless round of rankings is coming out later today and traditionally I’m too busy to think about my useless round of rankings but here we are. For this round, I decided to show you who I think are the Top 25 without regard to past matchups or statistics. Obviously, that stuff exists in……

D3VbWest Top 25 (11/1/21)

The ninth round of rankings and the final one before the NCAA Tournament. This is around the time I give up on this stuff because it so doesn’t matter but I’m a gamer. (At least for this year.) Remember that a key result is a win over a team in the Top 25 or one……

D3VbWest Top 25 (10/25/21)

Another round of rankings (8th to be exact) and we definitely had a few upsets this week so it’s time to figure out if it impacts much. I also need to look at the Region X Regional Rankings but I need “Ned” to send me those SOS numbers. (Hint) Remember that a key result is……

D3VbWest Top 25 (10/18/21)

Round seven for the rankings and this is the last one that really matters, not that they mattered in the first place. We’ll have the AVCA Top 25 tomorrow but then we’ll get the release of the regional rankings on Wednesday. The regional rankings are used for NCAA Tournament selection so those are the ones……

D3VbWest Top 25 (10/11/21)

Round six for the rankings and I’m not looking forward to this one. We had some upsets and a couple in Region X that are going to make things difficult. It’s never good when A beats B who beats C who beats A.  Remember that a key result is a win over a team in……

D3VbWest Top 25 (10/4/21)

Round five for the rankings and as I write this sentence, I haven’t done a lick of research but my prediction is very small movements today. This typically happens towards the middle of conference play as most conferences don’t see upsets over top teams. Still, there are teams out there striving for recognition and I’ll……

D3VbWest Top 25 (9/27/21)

Rankings time! Here is what I have for the fourth week of the season. I will NOT have the Region X Top 8 today as the NCAA has not updated their “Toughest Schedule” link in their database. I do have some good news on this front, however, as our good friend from New England, “Ned”,……