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(02/03/24 2:23am)
On Penn State’s first swing of Friday night’s top-15 clash, Ball State’s Wil McPhillips elevated in the middle of the front row, and emphatically rejected the attack. McPhillips’ block on the opening point of the match released an immediate roar from the Cardinal faithful.
(02/02/24 3:03am)
After Loyola Chicago’s Ryan McElligott missed his service attempt, Ball State took a 24-21 lead in the second frame, prompting Cardinals fans to lift up from their seats for the impending set point.
(01/29/24 3:04am)
Ball State and Hawaii have become familiar foes since Cardinals head coach — and Hawaii native — Donan Cruz took control of the program in 2022. The pair of esteemed squads have met four times over the two-season span, and each team has captured two wins.
(01/21/24 12:55am)
Following its setback against No. 13 USC Friday afternoon, Ball State returned to the Austin Convention Center on Saturday for another matchup against a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF).
(01/19/24 10:50pm)
Tinaishe Ndavazocheva’s 2023 debut season was among the finest for a first-year Cardinal in recent memory. The Zimbabwe native recorded 3.60 kills per set at a .402 hitting percentage last year, which earned him a spot on the Preseason All-Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) Team leading into the 2024 campaign.
(01/17/24 1:05am)
Tuesday night marked Ball State’s fourth home match in the last six days. The 14th-ranked Cardinals captured decisive wins in the previous three matches, and they extended their string of success in the home stand finale against Trine (0-1) — defeating the Division III foe, 3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-19).
(01/14/24 12:54am)
The Cardinals entered Worthen Arena on Saturday night having won two straight matches, and their play in the opening points reflected their momentum. After dropping the first point of the match, Ball State rattled off five consecutive points, which served as the foundation for a lead that it never relinquished in set one.
(01/13/24 1:32am)
Ball State was nearly perfect in its January home matches last season, logging three sweeps in four matchups. Tusculum was the lone team to compete with the Cardinals in the opening month, as the Pioneers extended the match into five sets before ultimately bowing out to the red and white.
(01/12/24 2:18am)
Ball State’s pair of 3-0 losses to BYU last weekend marked the first time the Cardinals had fallen in consecutive sweeps since 2021. Junior opposite hitter Aaron Hernandez underscored how the losses to the Cougars fueled their preparation in practice this week.
(01/11/24 3:00pm)
Junior opposite hitter Aaron Hernandez has been a member of two Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) regular season championship teams during his time in Muncie and even helped the Cardinals reach the NCAA Tournament during his freshman season. However, the last memory of his sophomore year wasn’t one he’d like to remember.
(01/09/24 8:28pm)
This week is the boys’ and girls’ Delaware County high school basketball tournaments. To some, the yearly event might answer the question of which teams are the best in the area. However, how can it prove that when not every Delaware County team competes?
(01/07/24 9:40pm)
Since head coach Donan Cruz arrived at Ball State in 2022, the Cardinals have matched up against Brigham Young (BYU) in a pair of matches in each of his seasons at the helm. The red and white split their two-match slates against the Cougars in 2022 and 2023, but they were unable to replicate that pattern this season.
(01/06/24 5:17am)
After cruising to three sweeps in a string of home matches to open the 2024 campaign, Ball State was unable to carry over its momentum into its first road test of the season. The No. 11 Cardinals fell (3-0; 25-19, 25-21, 25-20) Friday night to No. 9 Brigham Young (BYU), inside the Cougars’ Smith Fieldhouse.
(01/03/24 9:47pm)
Ball State men’s volleyball has enjoyed considerable success in the confines of Worthen Arena since head coach Donan Cruz’s debut season in 2022. Over the past two campaigns, the Cardinals posted a 28-4 record on their home court.
(01/03/24 12:54am)
On just the second day of 2024, Ball State men’s volleyball welcomed fans to Worthen Arena for its first match of the young campaign. The season-opening matchup marked the earliest kickoff of a Cardinals volleyball season in the rally-scoring era in 2001.
(12/03/23 11:34pm)
(12/02/23 3:24am)
The last (and only) time Ball State met Clemson on the volleyball court was in September 1995, a few years prior to the introduction of rally scoring. The Cardinals cruised past the Tigers in the early season matchup, sweeping their Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) foe.
(12/01/23 3:21am)
Twelve days ago, Ball State dropped an emotional five-set battle to Bowling Green in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament quarterfinals — coming up just two points shy of victory. The loss appeared to bring a crushing end to Ball State’s season and to the careers of its seven seniors.
(11/19/23 4:58pm)
Ball State and Bowling Green stepped onto the court inside Western Michigan’s University Arena on Saturday night for the nightcap of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament slate and a highly anticipated postseason rematch.
(11/12/23 2:16am)
When fifth-year senior Marie Plitt arrived in Muncie in 2019, Ball State women’s volleyball hadn’t advanced to the NCAA Tournament in eight years and hadn’t lifted the Mid-American Conference Tournament (MAC) trophy in 17 years. By the Cardinals’ lofty standards, these marks constituted a brief dry spell in the program.