Tuesday’s Almost Gone

New women’s college Volleyball polls are out, so Tuesday is almost done, or, metaphorically, as the song says, the day is almost dead. ”An’ I can’t tell you what to do, like everybody else I’m searchin’ through what I’ve heard. Whoa, where do you go when you don’t want no one to know? Who told tomorrow Tuesday’s dead?”  From the song “Tuesday’s Dead” By Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens.

TOURNAMENT DATES

NAIA Women’s Volleyball Championship Tournament – December 2 thru 6 at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa.

NCAA DIII Women’s Volleyball Championship Tournament – November 21 thru 23 at the Freeman Center on the Christopher Newport campus in Newport News, Virginia.

MATCH of the WEEK (It’s a tie)

# 3 (Tie) Concordia University – Irvine versus # 3 (Tie) University of Texas – Brownsville on Friday, 10/24, at 7:00 PM local time on the Concordia campus in Irvine, California.

# 2 Park University versus # 7 Missouri Baptist University on Friday, 10/24, at 7:00 PM local time on the Missouri Baptist campus in St. Louis, Missouri.

LET’S GROW VOLLEYBALL TOGETHER, PLEASE!

NAIA

For the seventh straight week the “Battlin Bears” of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, remained the top choice.  Rocky Mountain was the unanimous number pick, garnering all first place votes.  Park, still unbeaten at 25 – 0, remained close behind in the number two position. Missouri Baptist climbed into the top ten with a very impressive 27 – 1 record.  Southern Oregon dropped out of the top ten.

 NCAA DIII

The Hope College Flying Dutch remained undefeated atop the NCAA DIII rankings with an unblemished 25 – 0 record.  Cal Lutheran follows closely in second place with a 25 – 1 record.  Juniata College climbed back into the top ten, Elmhurst dropped out of the top ten, while the rest of the teams once again played musical chairs.