No. 12 USC Men's Volleyball To Face George Mason, NJIT In AVCA Men's Showcase

THE FACTS
The No. 12-ranked USC men's volleyball team (1-0 overall, 0-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) hits the road for the first time this season when it goes to George Mason--site of the 2020 NCAA Championship--to compete in the AVCA Men's Showcase against a pair of Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association teams. USC faces the host Patriots (0-1, 0-0 EIVA) on Friday (Jan. 10) at 7 p.m. ET and then meets New Jersey Institute of Technology (0-0, 0-0 EIVA) on Saturday (Jan. 11) at 5 p.m. ET. Fellow MPSF member Stanford also will compete in the tourney, swapping foes with the Trojans by playing NJIT at 5 p.m. ET on Friday and George Mason at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday.

FOLLOW THE TROJANS
All of USC's home matches are video- and audio-streamed live for free on USCTrojans.com and the TuneIn Radio app, except for matches televised live on Pac-12 Network (those matches only are audio-streamed). 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 State at USCTrojans.com and all matches via Twitter (@USCmensvolley).

RANKINGS
USC is ranked No. 12 in the current AVCA Division I-II Top 15 poll. George Mason and NJIT are not ranked.

OPPONENTS
USC has never lost to either of its opponents in this week's AVCA Men's Showcase. The Trojans are 8-0 against George Mason, most recently posting a 3-0 home win in 2017, and 3-0 versus NJIT, including last season's 3-1 victory in the Rainbow Warrior Classic in Hawaii. This will be USC's third visit to George Mason: it went 2-0 in the 1986 George Mason Invitational (wins over George Mason and Ball State) and it won the 1990 NCAA Championship hosted by George Mason (wins over Ball State and Long Beach State).

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