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2023 Volleyball thread

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Two easy road wins this weekend at UNCW see the Tigers finish the week in sole possession of first place after 10 matches. A couple reminders here: 1) The regular season is now 18 matches long instead of 16, meaning we’ve just passed the halfway point, and 2) The regular season title is extremely important, as it dictates who hosts the tournament the following year. Towson is currently in a relatively easy part of the schedule, as their next 3 weekends are against Stony Brook, A&T, and Elon. After this stretch they will finish with a tough road weekend at Northeastern, who sits just one game behind them in the standings.

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During a wonderful week for Towson athletics, Volleyball does their part by picking up two effortless sweeps at home. I didn’t even watch these matches; Stony Brook had zero chance of beating Towson, and there was plenty else going on more deserving of my attention than these two ass-kickings. The Tigers now sit at 17-5, 10-2, one match ahead of both Delaware and Campbell at 9-3. W&M, Northeastern, and UNCW are all 7-5, while Hofstra is surprisingly tied for 7th with A&T and Charleston (who are both not good) at 6-6. In my opinion, Hofstra is as good of a team as Delaware and Campbell, but they keep losing. Towson is pretty much guaranteed to get to the last weekend of conference play in first place at 14-2, as their next two opponents are the mediocre A&T and the downright abhorrent Elon.

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Not that this matters at all, but just kind of a fun little circumstance: for the first time in what feels like forever, Towson is not the highest ranked CAA team in the RPI. They moved up 8 spots to 76 this week, but that is still 9 spots behind Delaware at 67. The conference’s overall RPI has steadily risen as the season has gone on; Campbell is on a good run and is up to 111, and Hofstra and Northeastern both sit around 150. This is a pretty big improvement from last year, although still considerably worse than where the conference stood from 2013-2017, when there would consistently be 4 or 5 CAA teams in the top 120. Like I said, this doesn’t really matter at all right now, as no CAA team has a chance at an at-large tournament birth, unlike last year.

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