Mid-Season Iron Man Awards
Gannon DeFrain of Misericordia has played the most sets so far this season.
Maranatha Baptist Volleyball – A Picture of Mental Strength
March 13, 2023 by IH (Photo credit to Hope Ostrander) It has been a long, hard season for the Maranatha Baptist D3 Men’s volleyball team. The Sabercats had finished the…
Mens D3 Volleyball Schedule Strength Analysis
As we comb through our analysis and rating algorithms, we pause today to take a deeper look at schedule strength and what it may tell us about the over capabilities…
End of February D3 Update
February 27, 2023 As the month of February comes to an end this week, the D3 college men’s volleyball landscape is beginning to become a bit clearer. It has been…
NAIA Championship Update
UPDATE: Grand View WINS!!! It’s Championship Saturday for the NAIA as Grand View takes on Benedictine Mesa for the NAIA Championship. Game prediction below… Pool play had a few surprises,…
D3 Quarter-Final Update
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…
Preliminary Look at D3 NCAA Tournament
April 14, 2022 We are just a day away from the NCAA D3 Volleyball tournament round of 16 at 4 different sites throughout the country. For 2022, Springfield (Mass), Rutgers-Newark…
Insider Blog for 3/6
Another week of data has answered some questions about the potential finish of this years teams as well as left some still in a wave of uncertainty. We will take…
Insider Blog for 3/2/22
March 2, 2022 With the volleyball schedules nearing midway for the season, we have plenty of information in our database and algorithm to make some comments on teams at all…
Notable Games of the Week 2/29-3/6
Here are some of the high profile games scheduled for this week with links to broadcasts… Tuesday 3/1: 7PM PST – D2 Concordia Irvine @ NAIA Vanguard: 2 Top 30…
Data Points through 2 months of the Men’s College Volleyball Season
2/28/22 We took a look at some of the intricate details and data collected over the first two months of the season. There have been just over 1,400 games played…
2/22/22 Game Forecast
Here is the forecast for tonight’s men’s volleyball matches at all levels… UPDATE: Original Tough night with 5 games within .5 rating points and 4 expected to go five sets……
Weekend Forecast Update
Here is an update from this weekends forecast… Inside Hitter had a 86.4 win percentage for the weekend, picking the entire schedule for Saturday and Sunday. We had a goal…
The Weekend Forecast
February 10, 2022 Inside Hitter puts its rating and ranking formula to the test this weekend. The weekend forecast is not about the weather. It’s game predictions for the entire…
Inter-Division Play for January 2022 Disproves Myth
February 2, 2022 Inside Hitter completed an analysis of inter-division games for the entire month of January 2022, and here is what we found. There were 128 inter-division games that…
Welcome to Inside Hitter Volleyball
February 1, 2022 Thanks for visiting our website. Inside Hitter will deploy and apply several ranking algorithms to Men’s College Volleyball starting for the Men’s 2022 College seasons. The ranking…