Picking the top 3 finishers for every #NCAAVB conference

If you have lots of time on your hands and don't mind hearing me ramble for well over an hour, I invite you to listen to me explain all my choices for this list in my first-ever podcast. I dive into every conference and explain which choices were easy and which ones were...not.

Without further ado, from conference #32 to #1 (based on MasseyRatings):

SWAC: Alabama State, Alabama A&M, Southern
MEAC: Howard, Bethune-Cookman, Morgan State
NEC: Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, Bryant
MAAC: Fairfield, Canisius, Marist
Big South: High Point, Winthrop, Radford
America East: New Hampshire, Stony Brook, Albany
Ohio Valley: Murray State, Morehead State, Austin Peay
Southern: ETSU, Samford, Wofford
Southland: Stephen F. Austin, Houston Baptist, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Atlantic Sun: Florida Gulf Coast, Kennesaw State, Lipscomb
Patriot: American, Navy, Army
Summit: South Dakota, Denver, Omaha
Atlantic 10: Dayton, VCU, La Salle
Sun Belt: Texas State, Coastal Carolina, Arkansas State
Big Sky: Northern Arizona, Weber State, Northern Colorado
Colonial: James Madison, Towson, Hofstra
Ivy: Yale, Princeton, Cornell
Missouri Valley: Northern Iowa, Illinois State, Loyola-Chicago
Mid-American: Miami-Ohio, Western Michigan, Bowling Green
Western Athletic: New Mexico State, Utah Valley, Grand Canyon
Conference USA: Rice, Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic
Horizon: Wright State, Green Bay, Northern Kentucky
Big East: Creighton, Marquette, Villanova
Mountain West: Colorado State, Boise State, Wyoming
American Athletic: UCF, Cincinnati, Tulane
Big West: Hawaii, UCSB, Cal Poly
West Coast: BYU, San Diego, Pepperdine
ACC: Pittsburgh, Florida State, Louisville
SEC: Florida, Kentucky, Missouri
Big 12: Texas, Baylor, Iowa State
Big Ten: Minnesota, Nebraska, Penn State
Pac-12: Stanford, Washington, Utah

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