NCAA Volleyball: UK, Pitt, Stanford, Louisville win; big DII upsets; NIVC down to three
Anna DeBeer watches Louisville teammate Elena Scott make the dig against Purdue/Mallory Peak, Louisville Athletics Ultimately, the favorites all won and we get to do it all over again Friday. But what a great day Thursday was for NCAA Division I women’s volleyball. The new four-day format was...
NCAA Volleyball: Round of 16 begins; DII, NIVC updates; transfer portal bursting at the seams
Wyoming’s Kasia Partyka is helpless as Arizona’s Jordan Wilson, left, and Journey Tucker are all over this ball/Rebecca Sasnett, Arizona Athletics The NCAA Tournament round of 16 begins Thursday with four matches in a row beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern. The schedule with notes follows. So does...
Volleyball Today: Coaching news; Indiana Wesleyan rallies to win NAIA title
Indiana Wesleyan wins the 2024 NAIA national title We’ve got NCAA regionals announcer info, the NIVC quarterfinals continue, the NAIA has a champion that came back from a 13-6 fifth-set deficit, and the MasterCoaches. But this edition of Volleyball Today begins with the coaching carousel. Most notable was...
Volleyball Today: NCAA regionals, NIVC semis, NAIA title match, LOVB TV, VNL schedule, international report
This is an absolutely chock-full edition of Volleyball Today, from NCAA to NIVC to NAIA to LOVB to VNL to our international women’s report: NCAA volleyball Thursday, Friday THURSDAY All matches on ESPN2 At Pittsburgh (second matches start 30 minutes after the first ends) 1 p.m. — Missouri (22-8) vs. Kentucky...
900 Square Feet: NCAA round of 16; Juniata’s Pavlik, Louisville’s Meske join the Zoom
In this edition of 900 Square Feet, ESPN’s Emily Ehman, who’s bound for the Louisville regional, and VBM editor Lee Feinswog are talking NCAA volleyball tournament round of 16 after an exciting week. And they’re joined by Heather Pavlik, the Juniata coach whose team won its...
Volleyball Today: NCAA regionals schedule; Juniata wins again; coaching hires
Three more days until the NCAA Tournament regionals being. We’ve got the schedule. We admit to not doing justice to Division III, but Juniata! What a story. We have the recap of the Eagles winning another championship — the hard way. The coaching carousel has some news,...
Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth put final golden exclamation point on successful Paris quad
It was an all-USA final as Megan Kraft attacks over teammate Terese Cannon against Taryn Kloth, left, and Kristen Nuss/Volleyball World photo DOHA, Qatar — It was an awfully strange time for Kristen Nuss to, perhaps for the first documented time on a beach volleyball court,...
Volleyball Today: NCAA round of 16 set with 5 each from SEC, B1G; TKN wins Doha gold
Nebraska’s Andi Jackson blasts through the Miami block/Nebraska photo All hail, of all conferences, the SEC. The league has five of the remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament round of 16. That’s because both Florida and Texas A&M scored upsets Saturday to join Kentucky, Missouri and first-year member...
NCAA volleyball: Mizzou knocks off SMU; 34 kills for Dayton’s Almodovar
Oregon’s Cristin Cline sets Onye Ofoegbu against TCU/Stephen Burns photo If you were looking for a Cinderella story in the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament on Friday, you picked the wrong day. The only significant upset saw a team from the Power Four SEC, Missouri, knock off...
NCAA volleyball: Loyola Chicago, Ole Miss score first-round upsets; 33 kills for GT’s Otene
SMU’s Naya Shime with the all-out save against Wichita State/Matt Smith photo Loyola Chicago and Ole Miss made first-round history Thursday as the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament got underway. Loyola, which got everyone’s attention when it upset Dayton in the Atlantic 10 tournament final, did...
NCAA volleyball tourney begins; more coaching moves; Olivia Babcock, water polo player
UT Arlington rallied for a fifth-set WAC title victory over Grand Canyon to make the NCAA Tournament. Scenes like this are sure to be prevalent in this week’s NCAA Tournament. UTA opens against USC. Three months and a week after Kentucky and Nebraska kicked things off...
Volleyball Today: NIVC begins; coaching carousel spins; Big 12 honors
TCU’s Melanie Parra We’re still a day away from the start of the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament, but the NIVC gets going Wednesday with Binghamton of the America East at the MAC’s Bowling Green. It’s at 7 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN+. The...
Volleyball Today: NCAA tourney viewing link; AVCA top 25; USA international report
In this edition of Volleyball Today, we’ve got the final AVCA regular-season top 25, some postseason conference honors, a look at the World Beach Pro Tour finals in Doha, and a report on USA women playing internationally. With so many Americans now staying home to...
Franklin Sports making its mark in competitive side of volleyball
In 1946, Franklin Sports was founded in Brockton, Massachusetts, by Irving Franklin. With humble beginnings, when its products were made of discarded scrap leather from local shoe factories, Franklin has evolved into one of the leading sporting goods manufacturers in the world. With more than...
Pitt unanimous No. 1 in final VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll; Dayton, Baylor return
Penn State, which moved up a spot to No. 3, celebrated beating Nebraska to claim a share of the Big Ten title Pittsburgh finished as the unanimous No. 1 in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll of the regular season. Nebraska is back to No. 2. Penn...
Volleyball Today: NCAA first-round schedule; NIVC field, info; another coach fired
After the 64-team NCAA Tournament field was revealed, the NIVC 29-team bracket bracket was announced. All the info follows. The NCAA tourney schedule is set and we’ll list the first-round matches. The coaching carousel, which is likely to build up some speed now that the regular season...
Post-NCAA volleyball selection show Zoom: Coaches, players, DI chair
We got to ask the chair of the NCAA Division I volleyball committe, Danielle Josetti, about Louisville-Stanford and the No. 4 seed, about the selection process overall, how they decided the last few in and out, and much more. You will want to hear what...
Pitt, Nebraska, Penn State, Louisville get No. 1 NCAA volleyball tourney seeds
Later Sunday night, look for our Zoom with, among others, the chair of NCAA Division I committee, Danielle Josette of Marquette; Nebraska coach John Cook, whose Huskers played 17 of the 64 teams in the field; Stanford junior outside Elia Rubin, Pitt junior middle Bre Kelley;...
Volleyball Today: ACC, SEC surprises; NCAA bracket announcement Sunday; USA pair wins gold
Miliana Sylvester of Hawai’i goes over the Cal Poly blocks/Jim Wolf photo The ACC saved its wildest for last, ensuring that the NCAA Division I volleyball regular season would end with a bang. And did it ever. To wit: Unranked NC State all but assured itself an at-large NCAA...
NCAA volleyball: Penn St. stifles Nebraska; Sacramento St. wins Big Sky; big Saturday on tap
Purdue libero Ali Hornung gets the ball just ahead of Chloe Chicoine at Washington/Stephen Burns photo A day after fourth-ranked Penn State put an end to No. 1 Nebraska’s 25-match winning streak to claim at least a share of the Big Ten title, a regular season...