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Jan. 8, 2024 - AVCA/NVA National Collegiate MVB Poll
Rank | School (First-Place Votes Adjusted) | Total Points Adjusted | Record | Previous Week |
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1 | UCLA [23] | 460 | 2-0 | 1 |
2 | Long Beach State | 433 | 0-0 | 2 |
3 | UC Irvine | 394 | 0-0 | 4 |
4 | Hawai‘i | 381 | 1-1 | 3 |
5 | Ohio State | 354 | 2-0 | 5 |
6 | Grand Canyon | 341 | 3-0 | 7 |
7 | Penn State | 332 | 2-0 | 6 |
8 | Stanford | 302 | 1-0 | 8 |
9 | BYU | 286 | 2-0 | 9 |
10 | Loyola Chicago | 273 | 1-2 | 10 |
11 | Pepperdine | 197 | 2-0 | 13 |
12 | Southern California | 191 | 2-0 | 12 |
13 | Ball State | 184 | 3-2 | 11 |
14 | UC Santa Barbara | 160 | 2-1 | 15 |
15-T | Lewis | 136 | 1-1 | 16 |
15-T | Princeton | 136 | 0-0 | 14 |
17 | UC San Diego | 70 | 2-1 | NR |
18 | CSUN | 55 | 1-2 | 17 |
19-T | Charleston | 45 | 0-0 | 18 |
19-T | George Mason | 45 | 1-2 | 20 |
only 29 Division I Men's volleyball teams
Division I participation
The 2023 men's volleyball season featured 29 Division I schools, up from 26 in 2022, which had been the sport's highest D-I participation level since 1985. All three of the newest D-I programs were transitioning from D-II to D-I. Merrimack added a new team, and Lindenwood and Queens (NC), which already sponsored the sport, started transitions from D-II to D-I in July 2022. From 1986 to 2021, the number of Division I schools sponsoring men's volleyball fluctuated between 20 and 24 teams.
[2] No traditional D-I conferences sponsored men's volleyball until the Big West Conference added the sport for the 2018 season. The Big West became the first NCAA men's volleyball league to consist entirely of D-I members when UC San Diego, which was one of the six charter members of Big West men's volleyball, began a transition to D-I upon joining the Big West full-time in July 2020. Of the other four major conferences, the only all-sports league is the Northeast Conference (NEC), which started men's volleyball play in the 2023 season with six full conference members and two D-II members as single-sport associates. The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) and Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) are volleyball-specific conferences, while the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a multi-sport conference of schools whose primary conferences do not sponsor its ten sports. In addition to the 29 D-I schools, 31 Division II schools competed in D-I volleyball during the 2023 season: