It’s tourney time!
Conference championships begin Thursday in the ASUN, CAA, MAAC, SoCon, Sun Belt and WAC. All of those are one-and-done leagues, meaning only the conference-tournament winner will get a bid to the 64-team NCAA Tournament bracket.
There was big-time regular-season drama Wednesday as No. 6 Wisconsin had to go to overtime to hold off visiting No. 17 Minnesota and No. 22 TCU pulled off a reverse sweep over visiting Houston.
Southeast Missouri State won the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title and Northern Iowa did the same in the Missouri Valley Conference.
The line of the day: Florida’s Kennedy Martin had 31 more kills as the sophomore right side hit .333 and had an ace, 10 digs and four blocks in a four-set SEC win at Auburn.
The coaching carousel spun again, picking up speed as three NCAA Division I teams are looking for coaches.
LOVB has to love this: League One Volleyball, which starts it first pro season in January, has $100 million in committed new funding.
And there’s more pro beach volleyball, this time in India.
It’s all in this edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Thursday
First the regular-season matches of note.
