Updated NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship Schedule
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UCLA won the first NCAA men's volleyball championship in 1970

Don’t forget!  The Men’s NCAA Volleyball Semi-Finals and Championships will be held at Penn State on May 5th – 7th.  I’ve contemplated taking the drive north to State College to see the matches live, but a $400 round trip in gas prices for my not so fuel-efficient SUV is scaring me away.  At least I can watch them on TV or online.  Following is the ESPN broadcast schedule: Continue Reading

There are 329 Division I Women’s Volleyball programs.  Not all are fully funded.  Conservatively, there are 8 scholarships per school (those with full funding versus those without full funding).  This comes out to 2,632 available scholarships over a four year period.  Divide this number by four which means there are only 658 available scholarships per year.  Divide this 658 number by four (roughly, the number of positions – setters, OHs, MHs, RH/liberos) = 164.5 scholarships per position per year. Continue Reading

This past week in Kansas City at the AVCA Convention and Final Four was thoroughly enjoyable.  It was 24 hours of volleyball.  Blissful.

Even though volleyball is one of the most popular sports in the world, we, in the United States, are fortunate it has not blown-up yet (it will).  It provides us the accessibility for legends Continue Reading

The most wonderful time of the volleyball year! After a great weekend of sweet sixteen and elite eight matches, it leads to the AVCA Convention, held in Kansas City this year, and the Final Four matches.  The year of volleyball parody is evident with only one of the top four seeds making it into the Final Four.  Should we be surprised it’s Penn State?  We should stop doubting Russ Rose and his ability to coach and recruit, but Continue Reading

Seriously, could the NCAA not find a better picture than this for their introduction page on the first day of the tournament?

It was fun to watch a number of matches online at one time.  Although some webstreaming coverage was not as clear as others, I appreciate being able to watch any match I wanted and for free.  I look forward to doing it again tonight.  Second round matches start at 3:30 EST today.

Here is a link to the NCAA Volleyball website: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2010/ncaa_bracket_DI_volleyball_women.html It helps if you have Adobe Flash installed.  Click on the “In Progress” tab and then click on the little camera icon next to the school you want to watch.  Enjoy!

NCAA Volleyball – ESPNU will be re-airing the 2010 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship tonight, April 13th beginning at 9:30 p.m. EST. Relive the excitement as Penn State and Texas clash in one of the most thrilling matches in recent history!