AVCA Women's Volleyball Top 25 Rankings/Discussion

[WLCALUM83]

Here is the AVCA 2010 Pre-Season Women's Top 25 Volleyball Poll:

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-8-19-10/


 (along with some Top 25 and ARV match-ups between now and 9/7 when the next poll comes out:)

#  1  Washington-MO vs. ARV DePauw
#  2  Juniata vs. #15 Christopher Newport
#  3  Emory vs. #16 Southwestern-TX (neutral court)
#  5  Colorado College vs. ARV LaVerne
#  7  Carthage @ #13 UW-Eau Claire  (ARV St. Ben-MN in same tourney)
#  8  St. Thomas-MN vs. #11 Wittenberg
#10  Ohio Northern vs. #23 Heidelberg
#11  Wittenberg vs. #14 UW-Whitewater and ARV Cal Lutheran (same meet as #  8 match-up above)

#17 Pacific Lutheran vs. #25 Puget Sound
#18 Eastern-PA @ ARV Haverford

[OshDude]

A certain volleyball blog is still around. It's not entirely terrible. There's 2010 stuff on there like "Who Loses Whom" and preseason polls.

If you've never moused to it, the blog focuses on the Central and Midwest regions but has a bunch of national entries as well, especially during tournament time.

[Just Bill]

Just stumbled across a new site: www.D3VB.org.  Looks very good and they've done a lot of work to load in nearly every school's schedule.  Perhaps a future D3Sports.com partner site?

[WLCALUM83]

Just stumbled across a new site: www.D3VB.org.  Looks very good and they've done a lot of work to load in nearly every school's schedule.  Perhaps a future D3Sports.com partner site?

I just went over there, too. I'm hoping it'll generate some more interest, particularly in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and West Regions.

[WLCALUM83]

AVCA D3 Top 25 Poll for Week 1 is now up:

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-7-10/

[WLCALUM83]

AVCA D3 Top 25 Poll for Week 2 is now up:

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-14-10/

[WUPHF]

AVCA D3 Top 25 Poll for Week 2 is now up: http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-14-10/

Saturday features one of the games of the year as No. 1 Washington University takes on No. 2 Juniata College in Indiana.  This is a rematch of the championship game from last year.  And, a rematch of the regular season game that was the single greatest volleyball match I have ever seen.  I am a volleyball novice, but I am sure others would agree.

Washington University defeated four nationally ranked teams this last week without dropping a set.  Juniata is undefeated and always has a great schedule, so this should be one of the games of the year. 

I wish I could go.

[WUPHF]

And, the Bears win again with a 3-2 victory over Juniata College to remain unbeaten.

[WLCALUM83]

AVCA D3 Top 25 poll for Week 3 is now up:

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-21-10/

[WLCALUM83]

Joining #2 Juniata @ #6 Eastern-PA in progress:

[WLCALUM83]

Juniata takes Eastern-PA in 3
    (25-23, 25-18, 25-22)
        Juniata came back from a 21-14 deficit to take Set 1
                   Juniata--  Miller and Barnhart  9 kills each, Morrison 17 digs
                   Eastern -- Reinhold 9 kills, 10 digs

[WLCALUM83]

AVCA D3 WVB Top 25 poll for Week 4 is now up:

http://www.avca.org/division-three-women/poll-9-28-10/

[WLCALUM83]

Week 5 D3 Top 25 poll is now up:

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-10-5-10/

[WLCALUM83]

Poll for Week 6 is now up:

http://www.avca.org/divisions-division-three-women/poll-10-12-10/

[WLCALUM83]

#5  Chris. Newport @ #6 Eastern-PA up shortly: