Are conference tournaments not a thing in volleyball? Why? That would help grow the game even further I'd think.
Why isnt there an ACC Volleyball Tournament?
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Most of the power conferences don't have tournaments. Believe they prefer to have the auto-bid go to the best team from the regular season. But I do think the SEC is doing a tournament for the first time soon, I forget if its this year or next.
SEC will bring theirs back in 2025.
Auto-bid allows more OOC games against other top ranked opponents. I believe most of the smaller conferences do tournaments. Makes the SEC's decision interesting. I'm certain it's a money grab. Maybe they are tired of seeing their schools get kicked around during OOC and can just ride on reputation or something? They're down to three top 25 teams and it's almost like we're getting forced to think that Kentucky and Florida are just that good.
"Because no one cares about women's volleyball...all they care about is football and men's basketball.
Any money spent on Olympic sports is foolish because they don't make a profit or break even.
These schools would be wise to stop filling up basketball arenas for women's volleyball too. What a waste of time and precious resources..."
At least at one point in history, the volleyball season had a cap on the number of days you could play in the season. If your conference had a tournament, every team in the league needed to count a potential tournament game against their cap. Since most of the P6 leagues expected at-large bids anyway, it was better to allow every team in the league to add OOC games rather than hold the event.
There's also a perspective, which may be more at play today, where a tournament is just going to saddle your non-champions with an extra loss and you might have some bubble teams play themselves out.
There's also a perspective, which may be more at play today, where a tournament is just going to saddle your non-champions with an extra loss and you might have some bubble teams play themselves out.
Pretty sure it's still the same way, but you only have to count the whole tournament as one game. So if the NCAA allowed 30 matches, you could only play 29 if your conference had a tournament. Basketball works the same way.
Volleyball had a slightly weirder system where there was not a strict cap on the number of matches in a season, but the number of unique dates of play. That is why Pitt used to play events where they would play twice in the same day: that still counted as only one date. There was an attempt to modernize that, and that is the part I am not sure of the current status.
I know D3 will sometimes have three teams play each other on a given day. I'm certain that has a lot to do with travel but maybe it's also a throwback to what you're referring to.
For reference, HS still has a similar scheme. You can play up to 21 games but you're limited to 18 if you play in a tournament, which doesn't count at all, or something like that. Have to be done by a certain date to count for the district standings but some schools play beyond the district cutoff because they play against out of state opponents and don't concern themselves with playoffs. Weird they don't have necessarily equivalent schedules.
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