No. 10 USC Men's Volleyball Goes To Grand Canyon, Then Hosts Concordia In North Gym As 1988 NCAA Titlists Honored

THE FACTS
The No. 10-ranked USC men's volleyball team (11-7 overall, 3-3 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation)--on a 4-match winning streak, including a pair of 5-set victories in last week's Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge, and undefeated at home in 2019--gets back to MPSF play when it travels to Grand Canyon (9-11, 0-6) this Thursday (March 14) for a 7 p.m. MT match and then returns home on Saturday (March 16) to host Concordia (9-13, 1-5) at 7 p.m. PT in a contest that will be played in the USC North Gym because of a scheduling conflict in the Galen Center. USC's 1988 national championship team will be honored at the March 16 Concordia match.

FOLLOW THE TROJANS
All of USC's home matches are video-streamed live for free on USCTrojans.com, except for matches televised live on Pac-12 Network (those matches only are audio-streamed live on the TuneIn Radio app). USC's online announcers are ex-Trojan player and assistant coach Mark Beltran and onetime Northeastern player/Winthrop assistant coach Paul Duchesne. Fans also can follow USC home matches through Live Stats at USCTrojans.com and all matches via Twitter (@USCmensvolley).

RANKINGS
USC is ranked 10th in the current AVCA Division I-II Top 15 poll. Grand Canyon and Concordia are not ranked. It is the Trojans' highest ranking since being No. 10 late in the 2017 season (the last time USC was ranked higher was when it finished 2015 at No. 7).

OPPONENTS
USC holds a 3-2 edge in its series with Grand Canyon, including a 3-0 sweep in early February. The Trojans are 7-2 all-time versus Concordia, including 2 victories earlier this year, first a 3-0 sweep in the Rainbow Warrior Challenge in early January and then a 3-2 road win at the end of February. The Eagles host UC Irvine on March 13 before coming to USC.

50TH SEASON
The 2019 season is the 50th of USC men's volleyball. Since 1970, the Trojan program has been among the finest in college: winning 4 NCAA championships, playing in 14 NCAA Final Fours and producing 20 Olympians, 34 All-American first teamers and 7 College Players of the Year.

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