VBelo Scouting Report: April 17, 2022
The end of the regular season
What. An. Ending! On behalf of all volleyball fans, I just want to say thank you to all of the players, coaches, support staff, and countless people who made this season happen. Wow. Just wow. But wait, there’s more!
Now that the regular season is over, it’s time to talk post season volleyball. Sure, the post season has already started for ConfCarolinas and MIVA, but we still have so much more to go. All the 1 seeds were already decided before today, but there were a bunch of middle of the pack seeds that got sorted out today. (A full list of seeds is below.)
The MIVA had some serious drama with Purdue Fort Wayne pulling off the upset of McKendree and Lewis being pushed to #cincosets against Ohio State. This is full-on April volleyball at its finest. If we learned anything this weekend, it was that the best teams in the country are fallible. UCLA, Long Beach, and Hawai’i all got taken to a fifth set by teams they were expected to handle easily. If they aren’t safe, no one is safe.
So here we go!
Conference Tournaments
With the regular season ending, we now know all of the seedings for the conference tournaments. Conference Carolinas and MIVA have already started their tournaments, but here is a breakdown of the seedings for each tournament.1 Don’t worry there will be full projections soon.
*Team receives a bye.
**Team receives two byes.
Big West
Long Beach*
Hawai’i*
UCSB
UCSD
UC Irvine
CSUN
ConfCarolinas
North Greenville**
King**
Mount Olive*
Emmanuel*
Erskine
Belmont Abbey
Lees-McRaeBarton
EIVA
Penn State*
Harvard*
NJIT
Princeton
Saint Francis
George Mason
MIVA
Ball State
Loyola
McKendreeLewis
Ohio StatePurdue Fort Wayne
LindenwoodQuincy
MPSF
UCLA*
USC
Pepperdine
Grand Canyon
Stanford
BYU
Concordia-Irvine
SIAC
Central State
Edward Waters
Fort Valley
Benedict
Kentucky State
Morehouse
The SIAC does not receive an automatic qualification to the national tournament. The tie-breaker bylaws could not be confirmed, so this seeding assumes similar tie-breaking rules to other conferences. Also, their conference tournament is double elimination which is super fun (but harder to code so there isn’t a model this year, sorry.)
Match Recaps
Big West
#3/3 Long Beach (81%) def. CSUN (19%): 3-0
(32-30, 25-23, 25-20)
#4/4 Hawai’i (78%) def. #14 UC Irvine (22%): 3-2
(21-25, 25-18, 25-27, 25-20, 15-11)
#6/7 UCSB (55%) def. #9/8 UCSD (45%): 3-1
(25-21, 17-25, 25-22, 25-14)
EIVA
NJIT (63%) def. St. Francis Brooklyn (37%): 3-0
(25-16, 25-22, 25-13)
Charleston (38%) def. Saint Francis (62%): 3-1
(25-23, 17-25, 25-21, 26-24)
Princeton (77%) def. Sacred Heart (23%): 3-0
(25-16, 25-16, 31-29)
Harvard (36%) def. George Mason (64%): 3-0
(25-19, 31-29, 25-21)
Harvard needed to pull off the upset two days in a row at George Mason to have a chance at the number 2 seed. And they did it!
Independent
Daemen (70%) def. D’Youville (30%): 3-0
(25-18, 25-18, 25-23)
MIVA Tournament
#7/5 Ball State (94%) def. Quincy (6%): 3-0
(25-17, 25-20, 25-11)
#13 Lewis (67%) def. Ohio State (33%): 3-0
(19-25, 27-29, 25-23, 25-19, 15-10)
Purdue Fort Wayne (36%) def. #15 McKendree (64%): 3-1
(26-24, 25-20, 23-25, 25-22)
#11 Loyola (81%) def. Lindenwood (19%): 3-0
(25-20, 25-19, 25-22)
MPSF
#1/1 UCLA (70%) def. BYU (30%): 3-2
(26-28, 20-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-9)
#5/6 USC (44%) def. #10/9 GCU (56%): 3-0
(25-22, 25-22, 27-25)
#8/10 Pepperdine (75%) def. #12 Stanford (25%): 3-2
(25-21, 25-21, 13-25, 23-25, 15-11)
SIAC
Edward Waters (82%) def. Morehouse (18%): 3-0
(25-16, 25-12, 25-11)
Today in Numbers
Games: 16
Total Points: 2627
Sets/game: 3.69
Average Set Differential: 3.47 points
Home Win Pct: 43.75%
#cincosets: 4
Match Projections
No matches until Tuesday, April 19th.
Tweet of the Day
Still waiting on seeding information for the IVA tournament, which also does not get an automatic bid to the national tournament.