We are down to the GREAT 8 and insidehitter.com will do another round of game predictions for Saturday. Friday night yielded a 7-1 record with St. Joe’s Long Island ruining a perfect performance by by the IH projector with their upset win over Southern Virginia. Here is how the algorithm evaluates the 4 games on tap for today:
Springfield over SUNY Paltz 3-1 (26-28, 26-24, 25-21, 25-23)
Stevens over St. Joseph’s Long Island 3-1 (22-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-22)
Rutgers over Wentworth 3-1 (25-20, 22-25, 25-19, 25-20)
Carthage over Dominican 3-2 (26-24, 22-25, 21-25, 26-24, 15-12)
St. Joe’s is the Cinderella story for D3 volleyball much like St. Peter’s in the NCAA basketball tournament. We will see if the Golden Eagles can continue to fly to new heights against a Ducks squad that is 29-3.
Rutgers puts their undefeated home record on the line this season against a Wentworth team that disposed of a solid St. John Fisher squad in straight sets and have a 14 game win streak.
Carthage will have their hands fill with Dominican who is on a 20 game win streak and has already beaten Carthage this season. Carthage will look to maintain their home field advantage as they will be hosting the Championship weekend finals.
All games have live scoring updates at https://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/volleyball-men/d3 or tune in to livestream broadcasts offered as follows:
Springfield vs New Paltz – https://web.playsight.com/live/springfield-college-volleyball/101
Stevens vs. St. Joe’s – https://www.stevensducks.tv/
Rutgers vs Wentworth – https://www.youtube.com/c/raidervision
Carthage vs Dominican – https://www.carthage.edu/news-events/watch-live/webcast-4/