Another shoe has dropped in the Texas DIII conference realignment and this one has a yellow jacket on it. The SCAC and LeTourneau have jointly announced that LETU will be joining the conference starting in the fall of 2025. This will coincide with the departure of Southwestern and Trinity and will bring the conference to…… Continue reading SCAC Adds LeTourneau
ASC Rumors
I want to state right up front that I have no direct confirmation to support this article. You may ask how is this different from other articles? I respond with how can you be so rude without acknowledging any truth in your statement. Nothing firm on the ASC but as I’ve written in the past,…… Continue reading ASC Rumors
NCAA Power Index
The NCAA DIII Championship Committee met on March 19th and they made a recommendation that PairWise, otherwise known from this point forward as the NCAA Power Index (NPI), should be adopted as the selection metric for at-large bids across all team sports. The recommendation states that this should begin this fall (2024). Within the rationale…… Continue reading NCAA Power Index
National Statistics Loss (2023)
I’ve had a bit of a break so I’m a little tardy in getting to this but this article will cover statistics loss for teams nationally. I am up to 53 teams outside of Region X and I got there over the years by adding most of the teams that finished in the AVCA Top…… Continue reading National Statistics Loss (2023)
Centenary Hires Kayla Black
With the Oxy hire, we were down to just Centenary with an open head volleyball coach position in Region X. Well, it looks like I actually missed the Centenary hire, which was announced earlier this month. Coach Kayla Black was previously the head coach at NAIA Philander Smith where she led the team to an…… Continue reading Centenary Hires Kayla Black
Occidental Hires Emily Foster
My Latvian Hackers were busy today as they are telling me that St Olaf’s Head Volleyball Coach Emily Foster will be taking the Occidental Volleyball head coach position. I have not seen anything officially reported on this as of yet. Coach Foster just finished her 8th year as the St Olaf head volleyball coach and…… Continue reading Occidental Hires Emily Foster
BSC to Close
Sad news to report in that Birmingham-Southern has announced they are closing their doors on May 31st of this year. It’s a story we’ve been following since last year as it became known that the institution was under funded. Their Board of Trustees made a number of attempts to obtain the funding and there was…… Continue reading BSC to Close
Statistics Fun
I finished my work on getting the statistics loss for teams nationally. Some interesting stories there and I will put out an article on this probably later in March. I did have a couple of things I wanted to write about so that’s the purpose of this article. One thing I did this year was…… Continue reading Statistics Fun
Rule Changes
As written about back in January, the NCAA has officially adopted recommended rules that will alter the game as we know it. The big rule change is that double contacts made with one attempt when played to a teammate will now be allowed. Middles that find themselves with a second ball heading their way with…… Continue reading Rule Changes
ASC 2025 Statistics Loss (+ UCSC)
With this article, we are done with the Region X teams as I take care of the ever-shrinking ASC teams but with a dash added of UC Santa Cruz. This is actually the fourth in our series with just the national teams left to review. I’ve previously covered the SCAC, the SCIAC and the NWC.…… Continue reading ASC 2025 Statistics Loss (+ UCSC)
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