VBelo Scouting Report: April 14, 2023
The final weekend and the first tournament
We made it to the final weekend of the regular season. We have just a handful of matches left but a ton of tournament seedings left to determine. Yesterday, the Conference Carolinas solidified the 6 teams for their postseason. North Greenville is the clear favorite at this point, but I still haven’t run the tournament projection yet. This season the CC tournament will have 6 teams instead of the 8 teams that it had last season. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that the winner will get an automatic bid to the national tournament.
In case you want to check out RPI heading into the final weekend, here you go.
Today is also the beginning of the IVA Tournament. Check out yesterday’s newsletter for the full tournament projections.
Here are some interesting matchups to watch today:
UC Irvine at Long Beach - Huge Big West and National Tournament implications with this one.
Charleston at Penn State - Can the Golden Eagles cap their regular season off with a major upset?
Stanford at BYU - The Cougars are looking to keep their postseason hopes alive and they are peaking at just the right time.
Match Recaps
ConfCarolinas
Erskine (67%) def. Emmanuel (33%)
3-0 (25-13, 25-19, 25-20)
Mount Olive (69%) def. Barton (31%)
3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 30-28)
Lees-McRae (22%) def. King (78%)
3-1 (25-18, 14-25, 25-21, 25-23)
North Greenville (63%) def. Belmont Abbey (37%)
3-1 (25-12, 22-25, 25-18, 25-21)
MPSF
Southern California (56%) def. Concordia (44%)
3-2 (25-20, 25-18, 22-25, 23-25, 15-12)
UCLA (77%) def. Pepperdine (23%)
3-1 (30-32, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23)
SIAC
Edward Waters (68%) def. Fort Valley State (32%)
3-2 (27-25, 23-25, 23-25, 25-15, 15-8)
Non-conference
Benedict (70%) def. Carolina (30%)
3-2 (20-25, 25-15, 25-18, 14-25, 15-9)
Match Projections
Big West
UC Santa Barbara (52%) vs CSU Northridge (48%)
UC Irvine (23%) vs Long Beach (77%)
UC San Diego (6%) vs Hawai'i (94%)
EIVA
Charleston (14%) vs Penn State (86%)
George Mason (43%) vs Harvard (57%)
NJIT (24%) vs Princeton (76%)
IVA Tournament
Alderson Broaddus (25%) vs Limestone (75%)
Maryville (50%) vs Tusculum (50%)
Maryville (50%) vs Queens (82%)
Lincoln Memorial (68%) vs Queens (82%)
MPSF
Stanford (28%) vs BYU (72%)
NEC
Merrimack (18%) vs Long Island (82%)
D'Youville (19%) vs Saint Francis (81%)
Sacred Heart (36%) vs St. Francis-Brooklyn (64%)
Daemen (84%) vs Fairleigh Dickinson (16%)
SIAC
Morehouse (6%) vs Edward Waters (94%)
Central State (84%) vs Kentucky State (16%)
Tweet of the Day
Well my friend. Your biggest upset of the night could be my Knights of FDU over Daemen unless UH loses tonight....