Mens Volleyball heating up

[GMUgemini]

Is Jared Sullinger playing?

No, but Ohio State is 26-3 and beat us earlier in the year 3-0.

 

[GSII]

Hope nobody gets food poisoning.

 

[GMUSig03]

No, but Ohio State is 26-3 and beat us earlier in the year 3-0.

Know who else beat us earlier in the year 3-0? St. Francis, then we took 6 out of the last 7 sets against them. This team is on fire and with the prior experience against OSU, they have a legit shot against them.

Also, the NCAA tournament is being played at PSU - where Mason typically plays twice a year and obviously just played this past weekend.

 

[MasonFanatic]

Mason played each of the top 3 seeds in the regular season. As long as there aren't any upsets (aside from us), we won't play anyone we haven't already seen this season!

 

[DeepValue]

Congrats to the team on the outstanding achievement!

I'm not quite sure that it is comparable to the hoops team making the Final Four. It's probably closer to the level of the hoops team making the NCAAs and winning a game or two. Now, if Mason VB goes to the final game or wins the whole thing - well then my comments go out the window.

 

[psyclone]

Congrats to the team on the outstanding achievement!

I'm not quite sure that it is comparable to the hoops team making the Final Four. It's probably closer to the level of the hoops team making the NCAAs and winning a game or two. Now, if Mason VB goes to the final game or wins the whole thing - well then my comments go out the window.

Wikipedia indicates:

The number of Division I schools sponsoring men's volleyball has fluctuated between 20 and 24 teams since 1986.[1] None of the traditional D-I conferences sponsor volleyball. Two of the three major conferences, the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) and Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA). are volleyball-specific conferences. The third major conference is the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), a multi-sport conference of schools whose primary conferences do not sponsor its ten sports. In addition to the D-I schools, 25 Division II schools will compete in D-I volleyball in the upcoming 2016 men's volleyball season:

• Charleston, which played as an independent in 2015, joins the EIVA in 2016.[2]
• Lindenwood, Lewis, McKendree, and Quincy compete in the MIVA.
• California Baptist and UC San Diego compete in the MPSF.
• Ten of the 12 full members of Conference Carolinas sponsor men's volleyball; the two that do not are a women's college and a coeducational school. CC is the only all-sports conference in either Division I or II to sponsor the sport.
• Seven schools compete as men's volleyball independents. Four of these are campuses of the University of Puerto Rico. The other three are Coker, an established D-II program; Holy Names, newly transitioned from the NAIA to D-II; and Alderson Broaddus, which begins play in 2016.

Division II does not have a separate national championship, and neither Division I nor II has a sufficient number of teams to sponsor a national championship without the other.

So there are fewer than 50 total teams that compete for a national championship in VB vs over 300 in Div 1 basketball.

 

[Walter]

So we play in the same conference with Harvard and Princeton.

 

[DeepValue]

Wikipedia

Oh yeah, I'm somewhat familiar with men's college volleyball. I'd say Mason VB winning the whole thing would be about on par with the hoops FF in 2006.

 

[GSII]

Oh yeah, I'm somewhat familiar with men's college volleyball. I'd say Mason VB winning the whole thing would be about on par with the hoops FF in 2006.

DeeperValue in FF vs a volleyball ship. not even close.

 

[GMUSig03]

Ranked #11 in the Nation in this weeks poll:

http://www.gomason.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=25200&ATCLID=210913299

We will have to defeat the #2, #3 and likely #1 BYU in final in order to take home the ship. Doing that will be on par, or should at least be mentioned in the same breath, with our Final Four run, in my opinion.

Edited thanks to Bravesfan - Only a few non-CA schools have won NC's

 

[bravesfan]

Especially considering the fact that no team outside of California has ever won the NCAA title, without subsequently having their title vacated (Hawaii and Lewis).

Penn State won it not too long ago. Ohio State won it in 2011. Loyola Chicago in 2014 and 2015.

 

[GMUSig03]

Penn State won it not too long ago. Ohio State won it in 2011. Loyola Chicago in 2014 and 2015.

Whoops, way off on that one. That's what I get for going from someone I thought I remembered reading. But CA schools have by far dominated the podium nonetheless.

 

[GMUgemini]

But CA schools have by far dominated the podium nonetheless.

Well, you are right on that. The first school outside of Cali to win was Penn State in 1994. Since 1970, only 7 times has a school outside of California won the National Championship, although it's happened three times in the last five years.

 

[psyclone]

Don't see anything for Mason-Ohio St stream on Tuesday, but if we get past the Buckeyes:

Thursday 05/05/2016 6:00 PM National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Semifinal # 1 - Erskine (5) / Long Beach State (4) vs. Brigham Young (1) NCAA.com Live

Thursday 05/05/2016 8:00 PM National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Semifinal # 2 - George Mason (6) / Ohio State (3) vs. UCLA (2) NCAA.com Live

Saturday 05/07/2016 8:00 PM National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Final - TEAMS TBD ESPNU Live

 

[Pikapppatri8]

I am feeling all of this is good stuff. Congrats to the Volley ball team. Any victory and any visibility nationally is good. No qualifiers - just good.

Go Mason !

 

[Vurbel]

DeeperValue in FF vs a volleyball ship. not even close.

Once volleyball gets us $677 million we can talk about it being at big as the FF. Don't get me wrong, it's still cool. http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask.../28911/final-four-runs-huge-off-the-court-too

 

[DeepValue]

Ah, yeah, I was thinking about the athletic accomplishment on its own merit. If you bring in money and media and stuff like that there is no comparison on any level.

 

[MasonFanatic]

I can't help noticing that every ten years, one of our programs does something big.

1975-76 - Baseball - 1976 NAIA World Series Participants
1985-86 - Women's Soccer - 1985 NCAA Champions
1995-96 - Men's Track and Field - 1996 NCAA Champions
2005-06 - Men's Basketball - 2006 NCAA Final Four Participants

Not to be overly fatalistic, but we're due!

 

[Old Man]

Let's not forget the Trap and Skeet shooting team's dominance for 10 straight years. As of the writing of this article, they had won 9 straight collegiate championships and were going for their 10th in a row.

http://www.si.com/vault/1995/04/17/...o-win-a-10th-straight-national-shooting-title

"And though the department's trap and skeet brochure has not been updated since 1989--it mentions only the program's first three championships and profiles shooters who have long since graduated --the school will indeed be gunning for its 10th straight title next week in San Antonio. If the team wins again, George Mason will close out a decade of dominance launched by its former coach, John Linn, who died of a heart attack in June 1992. But a victory next week may also mark the end of an era for George Mason, which has brought in only one top shooter since Linn's death and will graduate four of its best in May."​

 

[GMUSig03]

Live video will be available at www.gopsusports.com

(Our club men's lacrosse team won a national championship sometime around 2001 I think)