Big East volleyball has become more competitive over the last few years. Creighton has taken nine consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament and will be looking for no. 10 this fall. Marquette made its first NCAA Tournament in 2011 and advanced all the way to the Sweet 16 just three seasons ago. In 2019, St. John’s broke through and won the league, making its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 12 years.

A lot has changed since the last time we had a “normal” NCAA volleyball season, and yet, in the Colonial Athletic Association, Towson remains the team to beat just as it was back in the age of innocence, aka 2019, and throughout the abbreviated 2020-21 spring season.

Check out the full schedule for three CAA Volleyball tournaments happening in September.

Over 430 teams will be in attendance this weekend at the Nike Boston Volleyball Festival.

Starting Thursday, the seven men’s volleyball teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation will kick off the 2021 MPSF Championship Tournament in Provo, Utah. No. 1 seed and host BYU welcomes the event to the Smith Fieldhouse for the fifth time in the last eight years and the eighth time overall.

The point of this article is to set up the best matchups of the upcoming 2021 MPSF Men's Volleyball Championships and provide predictions, but here’s the truth: every match in the tournament should be a good one. 

The lineups of the seven teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation are absolutely dripping with talent. Four MPSF-ers have earned national player of the week honors from the AVCA so far this season, and the reigning national player of the year also calls the conference home. 

The 2021 MPSF Men's Volleyball Championship is set to get underway on Thursday, April 22 with the quarterfinal round and conclude on Saturday, April, 24 with the champion being crowned.

Starting Thursday, the seven men’s volleyball teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation will kick off the 2021 MPSF Championship Tournament in Provo, Utah. No. 1 seed and host BYU welcomes the event to the Smith Fieldhouse for the fifth time in the last eight years and the eighth time overall. 

The  2021 AVCA DII Women's Championship will consist of a round of pool play after which the teams will be split into two brackets, with the top two teams of each pool feeding into one bracket and the remaining teams going into the other bracket. 

It was way back in August when the NCAA canceled the 2020 Division II women’s volleyball championship, along with seven other DII fall sports championships. While Division I championships for fall sports were pushed to the spring, Division II teams could play in the spring, but there would be no NCAA championship to look forward to and work towards at the end of the season. 

In the history of collegiate men’s volleyball, no conference can touch the MPSF. The league boasts 16 national championships since 1992, alums in every Olympics since 2000, and some of the most legendary coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball. 

It's been a very weird year but we have made it to the CAA Women's Volleyball Championships. This year, the championship field will consist of just four teams – Towson (host team), Charleston, James Madison, and Northeastern. 

Above: Harper Murray of Legacy 16-1 Adidas discusses her team and the upcoming tournament.

It's been a very weird year but we have made it to the CAA Women's Volleyball Championships. This year, the championship field will consist of just four teams – Towson (host team), Charleston, James Madison, and Northeastern.