No. 15 Men's Volleyball Continues EIVA Play at CharlestonNo. 15 Men's Volleyball Continues EIVA Play at Charleston

No. 15 Men's Volleyball Continues EIVA Play at Charleston

Penn State is unbeaten at 6-0 in the conference

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Series Breakdown

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SERIES HISTORY
• Penn State and Charleston will meet for the 22nd and 23rd time. The teams first played in 2016.
• The Nittany Lions lead 20-1 in the all-time series. They won the first 20 matches before the Golden Eagles for their first win last season at Rec Hall.
• Penn State is unbeaten at 9-0 in road matches against Charleston.
• Owen Rose has hit .434 while averaging 1.45 kills/set and 1.20 blocks/set in six career matches against Charleston. Michael Schwob has averaged 11.43 assists/set while leading the team to .320 hitting and added 1.43 digs/set in two career matches against the Golden Eagles. Sean Harvey also played two matches in the series and hit .450 with 3.00 kills/set and 1.57 digs/set,

SERIES HISTORY VS. CHARLESTON (LAST 10)

Year Winner Score Location
2021 Penn State 3-0 Charleston, W.Va.
2021 Penn State 3-0 Charleston, W.Va.
2022 Penn State 3-0 Rec Hall
2022 Penn State 3-1 Charleston, W.Va.
2023 Penn State 3-0 Rec Hall
2023 Penn State 3-0 Rec Hall
2024 Penn State 3-1 Charleston, W.Va.
2024 Penn State 3-0 Charleston, W.Va.
2025 Penn Sate 3-0 Rec Hall
2025 Charleston 3-1 Rec Hall

 

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PENN STATE VS. EIVA
• Penn State is 326-38 all-time against current members of the EIVA.
• The Nittany Lions have won at least 87 percent of the matches in the series with all six teams.
• Penn State has won its most recent match against all of the EIVA teams except Charleston.

Team Record Last Played Score
Charleston 20-1 2025 L, 1-3
George Mason 122-18 2025 W, 3-2
Harvard 30-4 2026 W, 3-1
NJIT 58-3 2026 W, 3-0
Princeton 71-10 2025 W, 3-0
Sacred Heart 25-2 2025 W, 3-2
Total 326-38    
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STREAKS TO WATCH

Ryan Merk
• 113 straight starts at libero

Owen Rose
• 86 straight starts at middle blocker

Bennett Wilson
• 3 straight matches with at least one ace

Team
• 10 straight wins against EIVA opponents

Match Notes

OPENING NOTES
• Penn State, competing in the 50th season in program history, begins the second half of EIVA play when it travels to play two matches at Charleston on Friday and Saturday.
• The Nittany Lions are 6-0 in the conference and a hold a two-match lead over second-place George Mason in the standings.
• Following the matches at Charleston, Penn State plays EIVA matches at Sacred Heart (April 10-11) and at home against George Mason (April 17-18) to close the regular season.
• Penn State cannot clinch the regular season title this weekend. The earliest the Nittany Lions could clinch is Friday, April 10 at Sacred Heart.

PAVLIK'S LAST SEASON
• Mark Pavlik announced prior to the season that this season, his 32nd as the head coach of Penn State, will be his last.
• Pavlik is just the third head coach in the 50 seasons of Penn State men’s volleyball. 

PAVLIK'S RESUME
• 2008 National Champion
• 1x AVCA National Coach of the Year
• 25 EIVA Tournament titles
• 27 EIVA regular season title
• 10x EIVA Coach of the Year
• 708 wins ranks fourth in the history of collegiate men's volleyball and first amongst current coaches.

SCOUTING CHARLESTON
• Charleston is 13-10 overall and 4-4 in the EIVA after splitting its two-match series at Princeton last week.
• The Golden Eagles’ 13 wins already eclipsed the 12 victories they totaled last season.
• Charleston was picked fifth in the EIVA Preseason Poll. Senior pin Lucas Torres and sophomore outside hitter Kai Cousins were named Players to Watch.
• The Golden Eagles rank first in the EIVA in aces/set (1.44). Yotam Briger ranks second in the conference individually in assists/set (9.76).

IN THE POLL
• Penn State was ranked No. 15 in the latest AVCA Coaches Poll and has been ranked in each of the first 12 polls of this season.
• The Nittany Lions have appeared in the Coaches Poll for a total of 620 of the 656 weeks since the rankings debuted in 1986. That stands as the fifth most of any program in the nation.

CAREER HIGHS SET LAST WEEK
vs. NJIT - Friday
Bennett Wilson - kills (9)

vs. NJIT - Saturday
Bennett Wilson - aces (2)

BEST IN BLOCKS
• Penn State leads the nation in blocks/set (2.81) thanks in large part to Owen Rose, who leads the nation individually in the category with 1.37/set.
• Rose needed just three sets to a set a program record with 14 blocks, including four solo, in a sweep over Harvard on Feb. 20.
• Rose’s 14 blocks broke the previous record of 13 accomplished by Kevin Hourican against Rutgers Newark during the sideout scoring era in 1995, Keith Kowal against Princeton during the rally scoring era in 2005, and Nate Meerstein vs. UC Irvine during the rally scoring era in 2006.