WKU Volleyball: Notebook - 2022 Schedule Released, Lady Tops to Host C-USA Tourney
The Lady Tops could win a fourth-straight title on their home court.
Most is quiet on the Western Kentucky front, but over the last week, weβve gotten some juicy tidbits from the world of WKU volleyball.
Also, please welcome The Towel Rackβs newest contributor, Manyoo Brown, who is making his TTR debut!
2022 WKU Volleyball Schedule Released
Louisville, Texas A&M and Indiana highlight the home WKU volleyball schedule, released by the program on Monday, which features 14 home matches at Diddle Arena.
The Cardinals make just their third-ever trip to Bowling Green for a volleyball match in what will serve as WKUβs home opener. Itβs the second-ever regular-season match in BG for the Cards, who won in straight sets on Sept. 1, 1990.
WKU has never beaten Louisville in volleyball.
Other schedule highlights include the Topsβ two home tournaments - The Holiday Inn - University Plaza Invitational (Sept. 8-10) featuring Northern Kentucky, Toledo and Austin Peay and the annual WKU Volleyball Invitational (Sept. 16-17) which will see Tennessee Tech, Texas A&M and Indiana come to town.
This season will also mark the last time the Tops will face UTSA and North Texas as conference opponents, who have been WKUβs most consistent threat atop the league since the Topsβ entrance into Conference USA.
WKUβs conference home schedule will see FIU (Sept. 30), Charlotte (Oct. 2), UTSA (Oct. 9), MTSU (Oct. 23), UAB (Oct. 28), La Tech (Oct. 29) and Rice (Nov. 10).
For the full 2022 Lady Topsβ volleyball slate, click here.
Lady Tops to Host Conference Tournament
There is a lot to look forward to in the 2022 WKU volleyball season and last Wednesday, Hilltopper fans were given more reason to be excited as Conference USA announced Bowling Green will be the host of this yearβs conference tournament.
WKU, winners of three-straight conference tournaments, will play host for the second-time as a C-USA member (2017) and for the third-time since 2010 (2012, Sun Belt tournament).
The Lady Tops have won each of the previous two tournaments theyβve hosted.
In 2020, the tournament changed itβs format from a straight 1-8 standings seeding to taking the top four teams in each division to fill out the eight-team tourney.
The 2022 C-USA volleyball tournament will be held from Nov. 18-20 at Diddle Arena, three days after the newly announced menβs basketball game against South Carolina State.