2023 USC Trojans men's volleyball team

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2023 USC Trojans men's volleyball
USC Trojans logo.svg
Conference Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Record10–16 (3–9 MPSF)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Gary Sato (8th season)
  • Rory Prager (4th season)
Home arena Galen Center
Seasons
  2022
2024 

The 2023 USC Trojans men's volleyball team represented the University of Southern California in the 2023 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. The Trojans, led by eighth year head coach Jeff Nygaard, [1] played their home games at Galen Center. The Trojans are members of the MPSF and were picked to finish fourth in the MPSF preseason poll. [2]

Contents

2023 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation volleyball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 1 UCLA  y120 1.000312 .939
No. 8 BYU  84 .667197 .731
No. 6 Grand Canyon  y66 .500228 .733
No. 9 Stanford  66 .5001513 .536
No. 10 Pepperdine  57 .4171614 .533
No. 12 USC  39 .2501016 .385
Concordia Irvine  210 .167819 .296
Conference champion
2023 MPSF Tournament champion

Roster

2023 USC Trojans roster [3]
 

Defensive specialist/libero

  • 3 Austin Stuard – Sophomore

Middle blockers

  • 17 Teddy Terrill – Sophomore
  • 18 Christian Thomas – Redshirt.svg Sophomore
  • 19 Lucas Frassrand – Senior
  • 20 Markus Olsson – Sophomore
 

Outside hitters

  • 1 Dillon Klein – Freshman
  • 2 Noah Roberts – Freshman
  • 4 Jackson Reed – Junior
  • 9 George Dyer – Senior
  • 12 Riley Haine – Freshman
  • 15 Jack Deuchar – Junior
  • 23 Peter Brown – Junior
 

Opposite hitters

  • 8 Kyle Paulson – Junior
  • 14 Luke Hobus – Sophomore
  • 19 Lucas Frassrand – Senior
  • 21 Kevin Kobrine – Redshirt.svg Senior
  • 24 Simon Gallas – Redshirt.svg Junior

Setters

  • 6 Trevor Powell – Freshman
  • 7 Ryan Sprague – Freshman
  • 8 Kyle Paulson – Junior
  • 13 Nate Tennant – Junior
 

Schedule

TV/Internet Streaming information:

All home games will be televised on Pac-12 Network or streamed on Pac-12+ USC. Most road games will also be streamed by the schools streaming service. The conference tournament will be streamed by FloVolleyball.
Date
time
OpponentRank
(tournament seed)
Arena
city
(tournament)
TelevisionScoreAttendanceRecord
(MPSF record)
1/5
3 p.m.
@ #11 UC Santa Barbara #10 Robertson Gymnasium
Santa Barbara, CA
(UCSB Asics Invitational)
VimeoL 1–3
(25–19, 16–25, 18–25, 23–25) [4] [5]
5420–1
1/6
8 p.m.
vs. CSUN #10Robertson Gymnasium
Santa Barbara, CA
(UCSB Asics Invitational)
W 3–0
(25–21, 28–26, 25–20)
921–1
1/7
5:30 p.m.
vs. UC San Diego #10Robertson Gymnasium
Santa Barbara, CA
(UCSB Asics Invitational)
W 3–2
(22–25, 20–25, 25–16, 25–22, 15–12)
2122–1
1/13
5 p.m.
vs. Lindenwood [6] #11 Walter Pyramid
Long Beach, CA
W 3–0
(25–16, 25–21, 25–16)
3-1
1/14
4 p.m.
vs. King [6] #11Walter Pyramid
Long Beach, CA
W 3–0
(25–16, 25–17, 25–16)
4164-1
1/18
7 p.m.
@ #7 UC Irvine #10 Bren Events Center
Irvine, CA
ESPN+L 2-3
(22-25, 27–25, 25–23, 20-25, 11-15) [7]
1,5344-2
1/19
7 p.m.
#12 UC Santa Barbara#10 Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12+ USCW 3-2
(21-25, 25–22, 25–22, 18-25, 15-12)
1,5085-2
1/25
7 p.m.
@ CSUN#10 Premier America Credit Union Arena
Northridge, CA
ESPN+W 3-1
(25-22, 19–25, 25–16, 25-17)
4226-2
2/03
4 p.m.
@ #4 Penn State #10 Rec Hall
University Park, PA
(Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge)
B1G+ L 1-3
(28-30, 20–25, 25–23, 18-25)
1,1776-3
2/04
1 p.m.
vs. #13 Ohio State #10Rec Hall
University Park, PA
(Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge)
L 1-3
(19-25, 25–20, 20–25, 18-25)
06-4
2/15
7 p.m.
#5 Grand Canyon*#12Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12 L 1-3
(21-25, 22–25, 28–26, 22-25)
4006-5
(0-1)
2/17
7 p.m.
#5 Grand Canyon*#12Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12+ USCL 1-3
(25-21, 22-25, 20-25, 22-25)
5626-6
(0-2)
2/24
7 p.m.
#9 Stanford*#13Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12 LAL 1-3
(22-25, 26-24, 16-25, 20-25)
3926-7
(0-3)
2/26
4 p.m.
#9 Stanford*#13Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12W 3-2
(25-19, 18-25, 26-24, 22-25, 17-15)
5597-7
(1-3)
3/03
5 p.m.
Menlo #11Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12+ USCW 3-1
(25-20, 23-25, 25-17, 25-20)
2018-7
3/09
6 p.m.
@ #7 Pepperdine*#10 Firestone Fieldhouse
Malibu, CA
WavesCast L 0-3
(17-25, 16-25, 19-25)
7238-8
(1-4)
3/11
7 p.m.
#7 Pepperdine*#10Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12+ USCL 1-3
(25-27, 25-17, 23-25, 20-25)
4938-9
(1-5)
3/24
7 p.m.
@ #4 Long Beach State #11 Walter Pyramid
Long Beach, CA
ESPN+L 0-3
(17-25, 15-25, 23-25)
2,8148-10
3/25
7 p.m.
#4 Long Beach State#11Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12+ USCL 1-3
(13-25, 25-14, 25-27, 21-25)
8768-11
3/30
6 p.m.
@ #7 BYU*#11 Smith Fieldhouse
Provo, UT
BYUtv L 1-3
(21-25, 25-22, 17-25, 20-25)
3,2838-12
(1-6)
3/31
6 p.m.
@ #7 BYU*#11Smith Fieldhouse
Provo, UT
BYUtvL 1-3
(20-25, 28-30, 26-24, 14-25)
4,2618-13
(1-7)
4/06
7 p.m.
@ #2 UCLA*#12 Pauley Pavilion
Los Angeles, CA
P12 LAL 0-3
(22-25, 17-25, 22-25)
3,0728–14
(1-8)
4/08
7 p.m.
#2 UCLA*#12Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12 LAL 0-3
(20-25, 17-25, 20-25)
1,6148–15
(1-9)
4/13
7 p.m.
@ Concordia Irvine*#13 CU Center
Irvine, CA
EagleEyeW 3-2
(25-20, 25-18, 22-25, 23-25, 15-12)
1139–15
(2-9)
4/15
7 p.m.
Concordia Irvine*#13Galen Center
Los Angeles, CA
P12+ USCW 3-0
(25-22, 25-15, 25-21)
30410–15
(3-9)
4/19
TBD
@ #8 Stanford
(3)
#12
(6)
Maples Pavilion
Stanford, CA
(MPSF Quarterfinal)
FloVolleyball L 1-3
(25-21, 21-25, 24-26, 15-25)
70610-16
*-Indicates conference match. (#)-Indicates tournament seeding.
Times listed are Pacific Time Zone.

Announcers for televised games

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend:██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
RV = Received votes
Week
PollPre12345678910111213141516Final
AVCA Coaches10 [9] 11 [10] 10 [11] 10 [12] 10 [13] 12 [14] 12 [15] 13 [16] 11 [17] 10 [18] 11 [19] 11 [20] 111213121212
Off the Block MediaNot releasedRV [21] RV [22] RVRVRVRV

^The Media did not release a Pre-season or Week 1 poll.

References

  1. "Jeff Nygaard named USC men's volleyball coach". Orange County Register . Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  2. "UCLA picked to win 2023 MPSF championship in preseason poll". Off the Block. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  3. "2023 Men's Volleyball Roster". USC Athletics.
  4. "UCSB men's volleyball defeats USC". Santa Barbara News-Press . Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  5. "UCSB wins season opener over USC in men's volleyball". KEYT-TV . Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  6. 1 2 "No. 11 USC Men's Volleyball Faces Lindenwood and King in Long Beach". Pac-12.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2023. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  7. "UCI Men's Volleyball Outlasts USC 3-2 in Top 10 Battle". New University. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
  8. "Set for a fun one at USC". Twitter . Retrieved January 19, 2023.
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  10. "AVCA Week 2 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
  11. "AVCA Week 3 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  12. "AVCA Week 4 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  13. "AVCA Week 5 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  14. "AVCA Week 6 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  15. "AVCA Week 7 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  16. "AVCA Week 8 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  17. "AVCA Week 9 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  18. "AVCA Week 10 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  19. "AVCA Week 11 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
  20. "AVCA Week 12 Rankings". AVCA. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  21. "Off the Block releases new college men's volleyball national media poll (Jan 17)". Off the Block. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
  22. "Off the Block releases new college men's volleyball national media poll (Jan 24)". Off the Block. Retrieved January 24, 2023.