Newtown, Pennsylvania (January 4, 2024) – The Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) released its preseason coaches poll on Thursday, and the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s volleyball team was ranked as the preseason favorite, the league office announced. The survey was conducted among the conference’s nine coaches.
Stevens, the defending national champion, finished first from all eight opposing coaches with a total of 64 points and finished first in the poll for the third time in the past four seasons (no preseason poll was conducted in the shortened 2021 season). Christ finished second with 55 points, with Misericordia (48), Stevenson (43) and Arcadia (40) rounding out the top five.
The entire survey can be viewed below:
| Rank | a team | First place votes |
| 1 | Stevens | 8 |
| 2 | The messiah | |
| 3 | Misery | |
| 4 | Stevenson | |
| 5 | Arcadia | |
| 6 | Expanded | |
| 7 | Eastern | |
| 8 | the king | |
| 9 | Capture |
The Ducks went 35-3 a season ago and won their second straight MAC title with a five-set win over Christ en route to the program’s second national title. The team’s 35 wins set a new record for wins in a single season. After the conference season, the Ducks captured three of the MAC’s top honors with their current starters Kobe Sherman Earning first-year Co-MVP honors Philip Boone He was ranked as Rookie of the Year. Dan Boring was named the conference’s Coach of the Year for the second time. On the national scene at the time as a second-year student Brandon Rogers He received the NCAA Elite 90 Award for having the highest grade point average at the tournament site, and assistant coach Michael Burkhart was named to the USA Volleyball Coaches Association Thirty Under 30 list and a graduate student. Louden Moran He was named the National Championship’s Most Valuable Player.
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