VBelo Daily: February 22, 2026

Teams are heating up across the country, just in time for all of these conference matches.

Merrimack bounced back with a thrilling 5-set win over LIU. (Merrimack Athletics)

Number of the Day

2 - Saturday was jam packed with matches, as is normally the case. Yesterday there were 24 matches, and according to the VBelo Model only 2 matches were won by teams with less than a fifty percent chance (or only 8% of today’s matches). So far this season, 22.5% of matches have been won by the team with less favorable odds. This is very close to last season’s percentage (23%), in case you were wondering.

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Yesterday’s Scores

ConfCarolinas

Belmont Abbey (98%) def. King (2%)
3-0 (25-18, 25-19, 25-15)

Mount Olive (90%) def. Erskine (10%)
3-2 (21-25, 25-17, 20-25, 29-27, 15-9)

EIVA

Charleston (83%) def. Sacred Heart (17%)
3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-16)

Penn State (96%) def. Harvard (4%)
3-1 (25-19, 22-25, 25-16, 25-19)

MIVA

Ohio State (84%) def. Purdue Fort Wayne (16%)
3-0 (25-22, 25-23, 25-15)

Ball State (95%) def. Northern Kentucky (5%)
3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-22)

MPSF

Stanford (78%) def. Concordia (22%)
3-0 (25-23, 25-16, 25-14)

Non-conference

Dominican (37%) def. D’Youville (63%)
3-1 (25-14, 22-25, 25-23, 25-22)

NJIT (97%) def. Manhattan (3%)
3-2 (25-20, 25-21, 23-25, 18-25, 15-11)

Daemen (63%) def. St. Thomas Aquinas (37%)
3-1 (25-23, 18-25, 25-23, 29-27)

Quincy (90%) def. Kentucky State (10%)
3-0 (25-11, 25-17, 25-17)

George Mason (57%) def. Fairleigh Dickinson (43%)
3-0 (25-23, 25-21, 25-19)

Southwest Baptist (83%) def. Westminster (MO) (17%)
3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-21)

Roosevelt (56%) def. Trinity Christian (44%)
3-0 (25-23, 25-14, 25-17)

Saint Francis (75%) def. Catawba (25%)
3-0 (25-22, 28-26, 25-18)

Merrimack (26%) def. Long Island (74%)
3-2 (22-25, 23-25, 26-24, 25-23, 16-14)

Master’s (68%) def. Vanguard (32%)
3-1 (25-16, 22-25, 29-27, 25-23)

UC San Diego (89%) def. Menlo (11%)
3-0 (25-21, 25-16, 25-17)

BYU (97%) def. Fort Valley State (3%)
3-0 (25-14, 25-18, 25-21)

Pepperdine (87%) def. Lincoln Memorial (13%)
3-0 (25-16, 25-15, 25-18)

Rockhurst (80%) def. Central Christian (KS) (20%)
3-0 (25-9, 25-19, 25-14)

Roberts Wesleyan (63%) def. Houghton (37%)
3-0 (25-12, 25-22, 25-19)

Rockhurst (83%) def. Central Christian (KS) (17%)
3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-17)

Roberts Wesleyan (71%) def. Houghton (29%)
3-0 (25-22, 25-9, 25-20)

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Today’s Match Projections

ConfCarolinas

Mount Olive (80%) vs Emmanuel (20%)

MIVA

Lewis (67%) vs Queens (33%)

Non-conference

Jessup (76%) vs Simpson (24%)