If you’re old enough, you remember the jingle for Doublemint gum:
“Double your pleasure, double your fun … ”
Well, in NCAA women’s volleyball from now on, double on.
That’s because “The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved allowing women’s volleyball players to contact the ball more than once with any part of the body in a single attempt on a team’s second contact when the ball is played to a teammate.”
The full NCAA news release, with other rules changes, follows.
So does the latest AVCA men’s poll and POW, and our recap of Tuesday’s NCAA men’s volleyball, that included a five-set MIVA win by No. 7 Ohio State and a five-set Conference Carolinas win by Belmont Abbey.
There’s also news on the pro front, including Pro Volleyball Federation, LOVB and Athletes Unlimited.
Doubles, nose rings, two liberos
We interviewed the chair of the NCAA Division I rules committee, Northern Colorado coach Lyndsey Oates, when the committee approved all the changes . You can read that story here.
The rest of the NCAA news release:
Two liberos
The panel approved each team being allowed to designate two liberos for each set of the match. Only one libero would be allowed on the court at a…
