Episode 200: CVW Men’s Top 15 2024 NCAA D1-2 Preview Chatter, 12/18/23

The BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN... or at least on the CVW Men's Top 15! This week, the guys shout out to a former colleague, David Hunt, who received his 2nd consecutive National Championship as an Associate Head Coach for the Texas Longhorns. From the weeks of NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament action we saw significant viewership and attendance. The CVW Crew takes a look at how that can impact the Men's/Boys' side. Afterwards, we'll "kinda" preview the 2024 Men's Volleyball season with what the buzz is (or what information is available at the time of our recording)!

0:00:00 - Intro

1:11 – 12:00 – NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship & Dave Hunt

12:00 – 29:00 NCAA D1-2 New Kids On the Block, NCAA Tournament Auto-Bids, Expansion

29:00 - Coaching Moves at King University and CUI

31:45 – 2024 Preseason Chatter/Preview

59:00 – Top players to watch

Episode 199: CVW Beach Top 20 - AVCA Pairs Champions, TCU's Lina Khmil & Hailey Hamlett, 11/7/23

College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 11/7/23: In this special AVCA Fall Pairs Championship the newly crowned Pairs National Champions, TCU’s Lina Khmil and Hailey Hamlett share their experience at John Hunt (not Dave Hunt, like Rob “Freudian slipped” for former Men’s Top 15 contributor) Memorial Sports Complex in Huntsville, AL on their road to the National Championship match. We chat a little bit afterward about what the Sandy Frogs could like in 2024 come February!

 

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Episode 198: College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s Top 15: NCAA Championship Review 5-8-23

With the 2023 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship in Fairfax, VA, a new champion has been crowned-- the UCLA Bruins, however, there was no shortage of excellent play from the opening rounds until the finals. With that, the CVW crew reviews the matches and All-America reception (video available on @robonthemic YouTube), and discusses their thoughts on each match until the final! We had to run through the matches during the week but we'll most likely have one more episode to recap issues and the entire season!

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Episode 196, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 15, After Dark with Jay Hosack, 4/24/23

The home of the 2023 Men's Volleyball National Championship is at George Mason University's Eagle Bank Arena, so in this bonus episode of College Volleyball Weekly Jay (since Jay was doing NCAA business) shares his thoughts on the conference tournaments that happened this last week, as we go into even more detail of HOW GOOD THIS BRACKET IS (HUGE KUDOS TO THE NCAA COMMITTEE)!

Jay and Rob discuss some of the eye-catching athletes and matches leading up to the teams' automatic qualification, the At-Large selections and the resulting matchups that could occur as the National Championships begin Sunday!

Episode 195, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 15, Tourney Edition: 4/24/23

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties I'm working through there are no intros/bumpers. Hopefully they'll be back soon! Instead, we jump right into the nitty-gritty. Timestamps MAY become available but my tech issues have usurped A LOT of time. Sorry.

This week the CVW Coaching Panel (minus Jay Hosack) of Dan Friend of Lewis, Brad Rostratter of UCSD and Theo Edwards of CSUN get down to tourney business! We all chat on some of the eye-catching and NOT-SO surprising outcomes and results. After words they dives into their thoughts on the NCAA Committees Tournament selection and seedings. Did the committee get it right? Listen in!

Also, will discuss the teams and athletes to look out for in Fairfax along with some chatter on the matchups!

Episode 191, College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s D1-2 Top 15, Week 14: 4-10-23

The Coaches’ Panel prepares for the final season of regular season play, except for Dan of Lewis—who starts the MIVA Tournament on Saturday. As always, we discuss some of the eye-catching results from Week 14 and delve into AVCA poll voting. We then transition into postseason outlook and assessment by the guys.

Being that there will be MANY great matches this week, the guys try to pick just one to watch, then pick their Coaches’ Pick Player of the Week!

Rob also mentioned that the link to buy tickets for the 2023 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championships is a little challenging to find. If you’re looking to buy visit:

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00:45 Eye-Catching results in Week 14

14:15 AVCA poll voting discussion

19:30 Big West matches for CSUN & UCSD

23:47 EIVA Recap

26:45 Stanford/Grand Canyon

33:10 Non-NCAA Berth Conferences

33:55 Conference Carolinas Playoffs

39:45 MIVA Conference Playoffs

45:45 EIVA Conference Playoffs

50:50 MPSF Conference Playoffs

57:17 Big West Conference Playoffs

1:03:45 What will the coaches be watching

1:06:15 Coaches’ Picks: Players of the Week

Episode 194, College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, "Tree Takeover"; 4/19/23

NOTE: You'll notice some differences in this week's episode. Had some technical difficulties producing. Hopefully normal format episodes will be back out next week! Thanks for listening!

This week, the CVW crew looks to the trees! The trees of Stanford in special guest and Freshman standout, Kelly Belardi and usual suspect, Charlie Ekstrom. This week saw very little movement in the CollegeBeachVB.com poll between 11-20, however, with upsets galore in the top 10 delve into the results and the teams that "made the move" last week. We'll also discuss conference tournament and NCAA at-large bid implications, and how it's going to be a slugfest for the 8 at-large bids.