Volleyball Today: NIVC begins; coaching carousel spins; Big 12 honors
We’re still a day away from the start of the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament, but the NIVC gets going Wednesday with Binghamton of the America East at the MAC’s Bowling Green. It’s at 7 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN+.
The coaching carousel keeps spinning. Belmont fired Katelyn Harrison after six seasons and Oral Roberts has posted about its opening.
The Big 12 announced its season honors Tuesday and the Big Ten does so Wednesday at noon Eastern on the Big Ten Network.
Also in this edition of Volleyball Today, we’ve got a repeat of the first-round NCAA schedule and info to keep up with the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Finals that begin Wednesday in Doha:
Parra tops Big 12 post-season list
From the Big 12:
TCU’s Melanie Parra was named the league’s Player of the Year, the Horned Frogs’ first recipient of the award. Arizona State had Mary Shroll earn the Conference’s Libero of the Year while Argentina Ung was awarded Setter of the Year and JJ Van Niel was unanimously chosen as the Big 12 Coach of the Year in the Sun Devils’ debut season. Kansas’ Reese Ptacek became the second Jayhawk in KU’s history to earn the Freshman of the Year honor joining this season’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Caroline Bien.
Click here for the full Big 12 news release.
NCAA tourney first round
There are 18 matches Thursday. They are not starting early in the day, nor are they spread out. We recommend multiple viewing devices, since every match will be shown only on ESPN+. ESPN will also have its whiparound show, The Fifth Set, which may be the best way for many viewers to keep up. As we noted Tuesday, here’s the link you need to watch the start of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. All the matches will be shown on ESPN+, for which you need a subscription. For what it’s worth, ESPN+ comes with a Disney Plus subscription and that way you can watch the new Beatles documentary.
All times are Eastern:
3:30 — Loyola Chicago vs. BYU
4:30 — Western Kentucky vs. Minnesota
5 — UT Arlington vs. USC
5 — Texas State vs. Missouri
5:30 — Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech
5:30 — Ole Miss vs. Florida State
5:30 — South Carolina vs. Dayton
6:30 — Purdue vs. Western Michigan
6:30 — FGCU vs. Marquette
7 — Hawai’i vs. TCU
7:30 — Cleveland State vs. Kentucky
7:30 — Texas vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
8 — South Dakota vs. Creigton
8 — Wichita State vs. SMU
8 — Wisconsin vs. Fairfield
8 — Wofford vs. Baylor
9:30 — High Point vs. Oregon
9:30 — Utah vs. College of Charleston
There are 14 more first-round matches Friday:
4 — UTEP vs. Oklahoma
4 — Illinois vs. UNI
5 — North Carolina vs. Yale
5 — Florida vs. NC State
5:30 — South Dakota State vs. Miami
6:30 — Texas A&M vs. Colorado State
7 — Louisville vs. Chicago State
7 — Pittsburgh vs. Morehead State
7:30 — Penn State vs. Delaware State
7:30 –Washington vs. LMU
7:30 — Kansas vs. Colgate
8 — Nebraska vs. Florida A&M
8:30 — Arizona State vs. New Hampshire
10 — Stanford vs. Sacramento State
Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Finals
The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Finals begin Wednesday in Doha and the field includes new No. 1 Tina Graudina, the former USC star, and Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia.
But there are just two USA pairs, both on the women’s side: Olympians Kristin Nuss and Taryn Kloth, the former LSU standouts, and former USC NCAA champions Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft.
Also in the women’s field are Canadian Olympians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson and the TCU pair of Spanish Olympic quarterfinalists Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno.
Read the Volleyball World women’s preview here and the men’s preview here.
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