USA NCAA Volleyball Spring 2021

NCAA Women's Volleyball Spring 2021 Season

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Schedule

Regular Season

January 22-April 3

Postseason

Round 1&2: April 8-10

Regionals: April 15-17

Final Four/Championship: April 22-24

Big Ten Conference Full Schedule

Week 1: Jan 22-24
Nebraska at Indiana 22/23
Maryland at Ohio State 22/23
Purdue at Wisconsin 22/23
Michigan State at Minnesota 23/24
Illinois at Iowa 22/23
Penn State at Michigan 22/23

Rutgers at Northwestern 22/23

Week 2: Jan 28-31
Northwestern at Nebraska 29/30
Minnesota at Maryland 29/30

Wisconsin at Illinois 30/31
Penn State vs Ohio State 26/31

Indiana at Rutgers 29/30
Iowa at Purdue 29/30
Michigan vs Michigan State 28/30

Week 3: February 5/6
Maryland at Nebraska 5/6
Rutgers at Wisconsin 5/6
Minnesota at Purdue 5/6
Illinois at Penn State 5/6
Indiana at Iowa 5/6
Michigan at Northwestern 5/6

Ohio State at Michigan State 5/6

Week 4: Feb 9-14
Nebraska at Rutgers 12/13
Michigan State at Maryland 12/13
Wisconsin at Indiana 12/13
Penn State at Minnesota 13/14
Iowa at Ohio State 12/13
Purdue at Michigan 13/14
Illinois vs Northwestern 9/13

Week 5: Feb 19-21
Minnesota at Nebraska 19/21
Maryland at Michigan 19/20
Wisconsin at Michigan State 20/21
Ohio State at Illinois 19/20
Indiana at Penn State 19/20
Northwestern at Purdue 19/20
Rutgers at Iowa 19/20

Week 6: Feb 23-28
Nebraska at Wisconsin 26/27
Penn State at Maryland 26/27
Michigan at Minnesota 26/27
Illinois at Michigan State 27/28
Indiana vs Purdue 23/27
Iowa at Northwestern 26/27
Ohio State at Rutgers 26/27

Week 7: March 5/6
Nebraska at Illinois 5/6
Maryland at Indiana 5/6
Wisconsin at Iowa 5/6
Minnesota at Ohio State 5/6
Michigan at Rutgers 5/6
Michigan State at Northwestern 5/6
Purdue at Penn State 5/6

Week 8: March 12-14
Ohio State at Nebraska 13/14
Iowa at Maryland 12/13
Northwestern at Wisconsin 12/13
Illinois at Minnesota 12/13
Indiana at Michigan 12/13
Rutgers at Penn State 12/13
Michigan State at Purdue 12/13

Week 9: March 17-21
Nebraska at Iowa 17/20

Maryland at Illinois 19/20
Wisconsin vs Minnesota 17/21
Purdue at Rutgers 19/20
Indiana at Northwestern 19/20
Michigan at Ohio State 19/20
Penn State at Michigan State 19/20

Week 10: March 23-27
Nebraska at Michigan 26/27
Maryland vs Rutgers 23/27
Wisconsin at Penn State 26/27
Minnesota at Northwestern 26/27
Indiana at Illinois 26/27

Michigan State at Iowa 26/27
Ohio State at Purdue 26/27

Week 11: April 1-3
Penn State at Nebraska 1/2
Northwestern at Maryland 2/3
Michigan at Wisconsin 1/2
Iowa at Minnesota 2/3
Illinois at Purdue 2/3
Ohio State at Indiana 2/3
Rutgers at Michigan State 2/3

The matches labeled "vs" are home and homes between those two schools. They're known as travel partners since they're in driving distance (for the most part) from each other.

Stream Link for Pac 12 Network International Link

Other Conferences

Big 12 (played in the fall) Fall Results Standings

ACC (played half of the season in the fall) Fall Results Standings

SEC (played half of the season in the fall) Standings Spring Schedule

AAC Spring Schedule

SWAC Spring Schedule

Atlantic Sun Spring Schedule

Summit League Spring Schedule

WCC Spring Schedule

Ivy League: Not holding competition

Big West: Not holding competition

Quote from QueenPiccininiLover

Is there a chance Ivy League and Big West will hold the competition? How would their programs compete this year, only non conference games?

Nope. Both canceled all play.

Ivy League I believe, won't be on campus at all. They're all still remote except for the students that have to be on campus.

Big West cancelled for financial reasons. (They don't have big football programs) They couldn't find the $$$ to be in line with the various protocols needed.

Quote from QueenPiccininiLover

What about their programs? Hawaii, UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly were all in the NCAA tournament.

Do they have a chance to play and qualify for the post-season? Hawaii made it to the Sweet 16 last year!

Overall rankings? Non conference games?

Nope. None of them will be playing as far as I know.

The Cali schools don't have the resources to be compliant with the different standards that are set by their local governments (I believe they differ from county to county)

Hawaii's distance would be a problem for any school that is wishing to play them ($$$) and I would guess that not wanting to bring the virus back to the island could play a small part.

I think a few players could opt to go pro. I don't think they're allowed to transfer with eligibility (for the spring season)

I'm just hoping we don't see any more of the smaller conferences cancel.

We haven't heard a peep from the Big East which concerns me

Quote from avid

I'm just hoping we don't see any more of the smaller conferences cancel.

We haven't heard a peep from the Big East which concerns me

First news from the Big East.

Creighton will play a home-home with U of South Dakota. Season is so close. Im excited!

Added a link for Pac 12 Network international. That will come in handy for matches on the Pac 12 Network.

Most other matches will be hard to find (legally) for international viewing. Youtube the day or two after (for big matches) will usually happen.

I can add in streaming links for the Big East (if anyone watches) . Im not sure what other conferences would be international (and time zone) friendly.

A link to save would be the TV listing by Volleyball Mag here which'll get updated every day/week once the season starts.

Quote from ThomasHH

Many Games (ACC,SEC, Big12 and a lot of smaler Conference) are on the ESPN Player ($)

Yea. ESPN+ is great here, but its almost impossible to stream online.

The matches on the main networks (ESPN/ACCN/SECN) are usually streamed online or can be found on Youtube (crossing fingers lol)

Stanford at 3 is an LOL from me....

Rankings will be a bit crazy this year. Conference only play for the most part will make teams hard to gauge.

I think Baylor is too high too. Washington as well.

Utah will be the best PAC team

The PAC hasn't released their schedule yet, but they will play the same amount of dates as the B1G, starting on Jan 22.

Less than two weeks!

We've seen most of the schools return to practices now. I expect more schedules to come out in the next week.

Also expect to learn of the players that are opting out of the season (and may seek pro opportunities). I know of a couple names but will wait to see what their decisions are.

Here is a great post with links to spreadsheets for schedules. (we still don't have a lot of them)