When the USA won our country’s first women’s volleyball Olympic gold-medal last summer, nine of the 12 players came from the Big Ten. This is not the last you will hear about teams changing conferences.īut in the short term, understand that the college volleyball world revolves around the Big Ten. That means this fall and in 2023, UCLA and USC will still compete in the Pac-12.īut it will certainly have an immediate impact on recruiting, not only for UCLA and USC, but for all 14 current Big Ten programs. The first thing to remember is that it’s not for two years. It’s not likely that volleyball entered into the negotiations, but volleyball is us and in terms of volleyball, this is seismic.

The first of its kind, a football- and basketball-style women’s volleyball media days, a Monday-Tuesday gathering of all 14 head coaches and some of their star players.īut we’ll also talk some 2024 volleyball.Īfter the Big Ten turned the college sports world upside down on Thursday when it announced that UCLA and USC were bolting the Pac-12 and in 2024 and will become really B1G members, just consider what that will mean for volleyball. A month from today in Chicago, the Big Ten is putting on a volleyball first.

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