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2026 AVP Season Announced!

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Dear Readers~     Back in November the AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) announced that they made their choices on the 2026 season. They usually release their schedules in January or February, so having it be released before Thanksgiving and Christmas was a surprise to quite a few, including myself. If you're familiar with me, I'm a big fan of the AVP and attend the tournament they have in Manhattan Beach, California every August. I've gone to it every year since 2021 while 2019 was the first time I went. This specific tournament is called the Manhattan Beach Open, or MBO for short. I've made several friends over the years (most went to USC) and have met more Olympians than I can count. Some of these friends include players like Travis Mewhirter, Molly Turner, Maddie Anderson, and Melissa Powell.     This year the season is split into three kinds of tournaments. They include league events, heritage majors, and heritage contenders. The previously mentioned...
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Texas A&M vs Kentucky 12-21-2025 WVB National Championships

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Dear Readers~     It's time. We've been building all season to this game right here. The 2025 NCAA Division 1 National Finals from the T Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. This game took place on Sunday, December 21st at 3:30pm Central Time. Just to get here, you have to win an insane 5 games in a row. If you lost any of those 5 games, your season was over and you had no chance for the championship. We started with a total of 64 teams and now only two remain: the Kentucky Wildcats of Lexington and the Texas A&M Aggies of College Station. Who do you think will come out on top and be the national champions? Let's get into today's game to find out.        If you've been following along this season, I'm sure you have an idea of how the sport works in the NCAA and the national finals are no different but f or those who haven't seen my coverage of some of the earlier games in the season (or earlier in the tournament), let's explain. The NCAA indoor ga...
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Kentucky vs Wisconsin 12-18-2025 WVB Semifinal #2

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Dear Readers~     We have reached the second to last game of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 Women's Indoor Volleyball season. This semifinal has the Kentucky Wildcats taking on the Wisconsin Badgers in Kansas City, Missouri. With this being the second to last game of the season, the pressure is on for both teams since if you lose, your season is over but if you win, you play in the national championships for a chance at the national title. With today's game taking place on December 18th at the T Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, let's see who will come out on top: Wisconsin, only the third team all season to beat Texas (who they beat in the previous game), or Kentucky, the second-best team in the nation (behind only Nebraska)? Let's find out in today's game.      In order to get here, each team had to have won a total of 4 consecutive games that made up the first, second, and third rounds, along with the regional finals. In order to get here, Kentucky (ranked #1...
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Texas A&M vs Pittsburg 12-18-2025 WVB Semifinal #1

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Dear Readers~     We have reached Semifinal #1 of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 National Championships of Women's Indoor Volleyball. This means this is the third to last game of the season I will cover. Today's game has the Pittsburg Panthers from Pennsylvania taking on the Texas A&M Aggies from Texas. Both semifinal games and the championships took place at the T Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Today's game took place on December 18th at 5:30pm Central Time. In the regional finals, Pittsburg beat Purdue 3-1 while A&M beat Nebraska 3-2. Who do you think will come out on top in today's game: the only team to beat Nebraska in all of 2025 or one of the best teams all season? With A&M having a record of 28-4 and Pittsburg with a record of 30-4, who do you think will get their 5th and final loss as well as who will win and go on to play in the national championships a few days later? Let's find out in today's game.        If you've been following ...
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Texas A&M @ Nebraska 12-14-2025 WVB Quarterfinals

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Dear Readers~     There is another quarterfinals game of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 Women's Indoor Volleyball season that I wanted to cover. Today's game has Nebraska hosting Texas A&M in Lincoln, Nebraska to see who can move on to the semifinals in Kansas City, Missouri the following weekend. We've previously discussed Texas A&M beating TCU in College Station for round 2 and Nebraska beating Kansas in Lincoln for round 3. Now that we've reached the point where the winner moves on to Kansas City and gets to play at the T Mobile Center, who do you think will come out on top: the Cornhuskers from Nebraska or the Aggies from A&M? Let's get into today's game to find out.     Let's see who's coaching A&M and Nebraska. Up first, is the visiting Aggies.  They are coached by Jamie Morrison as Head Coach, Lindsey Walton as Associate Head Coach, Jen Woods as the other Associate Head Coach, Jeff Fiorenza as the General Manager and Assistant Coach, Joe...
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Creighton @ Kentucky 12-13-2025 WVB Quarterfinals

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Dear Readers~     It's now time for the quarterfinals of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 National Championships as the teams work their way to the national semifinals and finals that took place at the T Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri on December 18th and 21st. The first round had Cal Poly playing BYU in Los Angeles, the second round had Texas A&M hosting TCU in College Station, and the third round had Nebraska hosting Kansas in Lincoln. For the quarterfinals, the Kentucky Wildcats are hosting the Creighton Blue Jays in Lexington to see if they can extend their winning streak. With Creighton based in Omaha, Nebraska and having a big rivalry with the #1 team in the nation, Nebraska, can they take down the host (and #2 in the nation), Kentucky? Let's get into today's game to see what happens in their only meetup of the 2025 season.     Some of the teams in this quadrant of the bracket (cleverly named "the Kentucky quadrant") included these two along with other t...
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Kansas @ Nebraska 12-12-2025 WVB Third Round

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Dear Readers~     It's now time for the third round (also called the Regional Semifinals) of the 2025 NCAA Division 1 National Championships as I cover so many people's favorite (or least favorite) team, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, as they take on the Kansas Jayhawks. As someone from Kansas, I grew up around Kansas (and Kansas State, who Nebraska beat in the second round) fans and a few Nebraska fans so that's how this game was chosen. By this point in the bracket, there have been a total of 48 teams eliminated compared to the 64 teams that were on the bracket for the first round. Nebraska beat LIU in the first round then Kansas State in the second round while Kansas beat High Point in the first round and Miami in the second round. This matchup took place at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, so remember that for next week's game. In this "Nebraska quadrant" of the bracket, the only two teams remaining for the other third round are Texas A&M taking on...
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