NCAA volleyball 101: Guidelines, scoring, positions, stats, extra

Here is all the things to find out about NCAA Division I males’s and ladies’s volleyball:

What are NCAA volleyball guidelines?

There are six gamers on both aspect of the courtroom at any given time throughout an NCAA volleyball match. The 2 opposing groups are separated by a internet with a top barely greater than 7 ft. Nets additionally differ by gender, males’s span 7 ft 11 5/8 inches, whereas ladies’s commonplace internet top is 7 ft, 4 1/8 inches. Every crew performs in a sq. of 29 ft, 6 inches in width. Gamers rotate positions, and the serve order is in a clockwise circle. One participant, the libero, is a delegated defensive participant and doesn’t rotate to the entrance beside the online. The libero wears a distinct colour uniform.

Scoring

NCAA volleyball matches are determined by the crew that wins three of 5 units. A crew wins a set by being the primary to attain 25 factors. A crew should win a set by a two-point margin. If a fifth set is required, it is performed to fifteen factors.

Taking part in some extent

Some extent begins when a participant serves the ball from behind the taking part in space over the online to the opposite crew. As soon as the ball is in play, every crew could contact it solely 3 times — excluding a block — earlier than hitting it over the online to the opposite crew. The ball could not contact the ground.

Profitable some extent

Some extent is received when the opposing crew fails to get the serve or shot over the online, permits the ball to hit the ground, hits the ball out of the taking part in space or touches the ball greater than 3 times. A crew may additionally win some extent if one opponent touches the ball twice consecutively or if the ball hits the out-of-bounds rod at both finish of the online. Some extent may additionally be awarded when the opposition receives a penalty for unlawful actions resembling touching the online, “lifting” the ball (making extended contact) or moving into the taking part in space throughout a serve. When a crew wins some extent, in addition they win management of the ball and can serve to start every level till they lose some extent, which is when the opposing crew will take management of the ball.

Phrases

Ace: A serve that’s unable to be returned by the opposing crew and instantly ends in profitable some extent.

Help: When a participant efficiently units a ball that ends in a kill from a teammate.

Try: When a participant hits an offensive shot into the opponent’s courtroom.

Block: The motion of stopping or deflecting the ball coming from the opposing crew, often by leaping within the air close to the online.

Dig: When a participant efficiently defends towards an try by the opposing crew.

Error: Each time a participant’s try goes out of bounds, into the online or is blocked down by the opposing crew.

Kill: When a participant’s offensive shot is unable to be returned by the opposing crew and instantly ends in profitable some extent.

Set: A sort of contact the place a participant hits the ball upward in entrance of the online to permit one other participant to spike the ball. A set additionally refers back to the scoring format for the game, and if a crew wins three of 5 units, they win the match.

Positions

Libero: A crew’s key defensive participant who’s assigned to remain within the backcourt. They’ve precedence when receiving serves and kills and put on a distinct coloured jersey.

Outdoors hitter: The participant, often the principle attacker, who performs on the left aspect in front-row rotations.

Reverse hitter: The participant, often an lively attacker and blocker, who performs on the proper aspect in front-row rotations.

Center blocker: The participant who stays within the frontcourt close to the center of the online.

Defensive specialist: A rotational participant centered on protection who can substitute in or out any participant on the courtroom.

Setter: The participant who controls the offense and distributes the ball.

When is volleyball season?

The boys’s NCAA indoor volleyball season takes place within the winter and early spring, sometimes from January to early Could. The ladies’s indoor volleyball season happens within the fall, sometimes from late August to early December.

2024 NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball event schedule:

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Dec. 1

Choice present: 6 p.m. on ESPN

Dec. 5-7

First and second rounds

Dec. 12-15

Regionals

Dec. 19

Semifinals: Start at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN

Dec. 22

Nationwide championship: 3 p.m. on ABC

Which faculties have received essentially the most NCAA volleyball championships?

UCLA has received 21 NCAA males’s volleyball championships, essentially the most by any program. The Bruins claimed six of the primary seven males’s titles, together with the primary three in 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Stanford has received essentially the most Division I ladies’s volleyball championships with 9 (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2016, 2018, 2019). Stanford additionally has essentially the most nationwide runner-up finishes on the ladies’s aspect with eight.

Which NCAA volleyball coaches have essentially the most championships?

Al Scates has received essentially the most males’s titles with 19. Scates was head coach at UCLA for 50 seasons from 1963 to 2012. Scates retired in 2012 with a profession report of 1,239-290 (.812 win proportion).

Russ Rose has received essentially the most ladies’s championships with seven. The previous Penn State coach (1979 to 2021) retired with essentially the most NCAA Division I wins with 1,330 (1,330-229, .853).

All-time NCAA champions:

2024: UCLA (M)

2023: UCLA (M), Texas (W)

2022: Hawaii (M), Texas (W)

2021: Hawaii (M), Wisconsin (W)

2020: Males’s event canceled resulting from COVID-19, Kentucky (W)

2019: Lengthy Seaside State (M), Stanford (W)

2018: Lengthy Seaside State (M), Stanford (W)

2017: Ohio State (M), Nebraska (W)

2016: Ohio State (M), Stanford (W)

2015: Loyola Chicago (M), Nebraska (W)

2014: Loyola Chicago (M), Penn State (W)

2013: UC Irvine (M), Penn State (W)

2012: UC Irvine (M), Texas (W)

2011: Ohio State (M), UCLA (W)

2010: Stanford (M), Penn State (W)

2009: UC Irvine (M), Penn State (W)

2008: Penn State (M), Penn State (W)

2007: UC Irvine (M), Penn State (W)

2006: UCLA (M), Nebraska (W)

2005: Pepperdine (M), Washington (W)

2004: BYU (M), Stanford (W)

2003: Lewis (M)*, USC (W)

2002: Hawaii (M)*, USC (W) 2001: BYU (M), Stanford (W)

2000: UCLA (M), Nebraska (W)

1999: BYU (M), Penn State (W)

1998: UCLA (M), Lengthy Seaside State (W)

1997: Stanford (M), Stanford (W)

1996: UCLA (M), Stanford (W)

1995: UCLA (M), Nebraska (W)

1994: Penn State (M), Stanford (W)

1993: UCLA (M), Lengthy Seaside State (W)

1992: Pepperdine (M), Stanford (W)

1991: Lengthy Seaside State (M), UCLA (W)

1990: USC (M), UCLA (W)

1989: UCLA (M), Lengthy Seaside State (W)

1988: USC (M), Texas (W)

1987: UCLA (M), Hawaii (W)

1986: Pepperdine (M), Pacific (W)

1985: Pepperdine (M), Pacific (W)

1984: UCLA (M), UCLA (W)

1983: UCLA (M), Hawaii (W)

1982: UCLA (M), Hawaii (W)

1981: UCLA (M), USC (W)

1980: USC (M)

1979: UCLA (M)

1978: Pepperdine (M)

1977: USC (M)

1976: UCLA (M)

1975: UCLA (M)

1974: UCLA (M)

1973: San Diego State (M)

1972: UCLA (M)

1971: UCLA (M)

1970: UCLA (M)

*Vacated

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