the highight again is the annual non-conf home and home with UCLA.

Nikolov vs. Rowan - could be two best setters in the NCAA. huge matches

5 matches I think are great.
@ Lewis
@ Pepperdine, chance to go to Malibu
UCLA
@ UCLA
GRand Canyon

and then a bunch of matches that frankly we should sweep and marking time IMO, without sounding to arrogant

wish there were a couple more better opponents:
no USC, no Stanford, jeez we haven't played BYU since 2016, no Penn State, no Ohio State, no Ball State, where are a few more top 10 teams to see the best VB team be challenged?!

I get it, Knipe is being all inclusive and playing every conference, growing the game stuff, just too much of that

still, Barton twice in a row?, lol. like a scrimmage, for many of these. just too many boring match-ups for a team that everyone expects to be top 2 or 3 in the country.

so better win those 5 marquee match-ups, puts a lot of pressure to win those to make a resume. this won't be a high SOS schedule again

although the Canadian team matches are very good, those are solid teams, they just don't count towards SOS

https://longbeachstate.com/sports/mens-volleyball/schedule