Tarleton really like a great opportunity slip through their hands in the opener, UCSB is a around a top 50 RPI school and they had them down 2-0. Have a couple out injured too that will help when they can get healthy.

Lions sweep another in-state opponent.

Tarleton goes on the road and takes set one from Rice who is a top 30 rpi opponent and was up late in set 2. Wheels came off mid 3rd set but showed some flashes and potential with 3 freshman on the court at various times. Rice is RPI 30ish.

(09-03-2026 06:29 AM)Ted Black Wrote:  Tarleton goes on the road and takes set one from Rice who is a top 30 rpi opponent and was up late in set 2. Wheels came off mid 3rd set but showed some flashes and potential with 3 freshman on the court at various times. Rice is RPI 30ish.

Where are you finding current volleyball RPI?

EDIT: It doesn’t appear that the NCAA has published RPI yet in the early season but this site replicates it and has UNA at #9.

https://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi

Full UAC Breakdown:

https://ncaastats.figstats.net/conference_rpi.phtml/UAC

Watching UNA hosting Chattanooga and the UAC logo looks nice on the court replacing the ASUN logo (which I like, too).

Two more sweeps for the Lions today! UNA is 6-0 (all sweeps).

For those of y’all unfamiliar, UNA had a very competitive D2 volleyball program (winning the D2 title in 2003) but struggled bad during the early transition in the ASUN (a pretty tough VB league). A few seasons back, the Lions hired a Bama assistant and he has slowly surely righted the ship including beating the Crimson Tide in 2024.

ACU beat both Texas Southern and Houston Christian to bring them to 3-3.

EKU has wins this weekend over Radford and Prairie View.

UAC looks to be a good volleyball conference , the former ASUN teams evidently have a history of pretty good volleyball. UTA has had some success ( final 4 in 1989) I know that was a long time ago but I had to throw it in there as it is one of our few bragging rights. Recently we have had a few good years and a few bad years. I hope we don't drag the UAC down.

Another sweep for the Lions! Best start in program history.

(09-03-2026 01:27 PM)unalions Wrote:  

(09-03-2026 06:29 AM)Ted Black Wrote:  Tarleton goes on the road and takes set one from Rice who is a top 30 rpi opponent and was up late in set 2. Wheels came off mid 3rd set but showed some flashes and potential with 3 freshman on the court at various times. Rice is RPI 30ish.

Where are you finding current volleyball RPI?

EDIT: It doesn’t appear that the NCAA has published RPI yet in the early season but this site replicates it and has UNA at #9.

https://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi

Full UAC Breakdown:

https://ncaastats.figstats.net/conference_rpi.phtml/UAC

Closest thing we have right now is here https://evollve.net/

Tarleton after taking the first set against Rice and winning most of the second set hit a major funk which carried over to UTSA and UIW for the weekend. Sitting at 1-5 but have played 3 top 50-60 teams anyway. Not sure what to make of losing badly against UTSA and UIW. I'm guessing basically being on the road for 9 out of 10 days probably took its toll. Not sure they have had one practice since the season started due to travel so tough to adjust, hopefully they can reset going into this weeks home tournament.

UNA hasnt lost a set yet which is impressive. They havent really played anyone but still thats a heck of a start.

Another sweep for UNA. They play Samford and Jax State this weekend in Birmingham.

Lions overcame some adversity on the road to get the W! UNA is 9-0 in VB!

Tarleton Innovational this weekend went just about the way the season has gone.

Tarleton defeats Sam Houston 3-0
Defeats Denver 3-2
And loses to maybe the worst team in the tournament A&M Corpus Christi 0-3.

Cats now sit at 5-3 after defeating ORU 3-1, then 3-0. Next up is Oklahoma tomorrow.

Another sweep and over the Red Chickens (Jax St)! Lions move to 10-0 but have a huge test at FL State Monday.

UTA defeated UNT in four, lost to Texas State in five and was swept by SFA.