Men's Volleyball Releases 2023 Schedule

By Press release submission

Nov 10, 2022

The George Mason men's volleyball program has announced their full schedule for the 2023 season, featuring twenty-two home games including two against Penn State and a nine-game EIVA slate.

Alongside that, the Patriots will also host the 2023 National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship from May 4-May 6 at EagleBank Arena. It will mark 33 years since Mason last hosted the NCAA Championship in the respective sport. In 1990 the Patriots hosted Long Beach State, USC, Rutgers-Newark, and Ball State.

They will face a total of eight teams listed in the final rankings of the AVCA Division I-II Coaches' Poll in nine games (all at home). Those teams include Grand Canyon, Long Beach State, Pepperdine, UCLA, Lewis, Purdue Fort Wayne, Loyola-Chicago and Penn State.

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Non-Conference Schedule

The 2023 Patriots schedule features all of non-conference games at home. They will first challenge Grand Canyon (Jan. 13) followed by Ohio State (Jan. 15). Next, Mason hosts Long Island (Jan. 19) and a Saturday matchup against Long Beach State (Jan. 21).

Mason will play four straight games against teams listed in the AVCA Division I-II Coaches' Poll. First, they will host Pepperdine (Jan. 28) and UCLA (Jan. 31). The next weekend the Patriots play Lewis (Feb. 3) and Purdue Fort Wayne (Feb. 4).

Another stretch of non-conference games comes against teams such as King University (Feb. 18), North Greenville (Mar. 3), Barton (Mar. 4), Limestone (Mar. 10 and 11) and Fairleigh Dickinson (Mar. 17 and 18). They will play their last non-conference game in EagleBank Arena against Loyola-Chicago (Mar. 26).

EIVA Play

The Green and Gold play six EIVA games at home, and three on the road. They start conference play at home against NJIT (Jan. 26) and then travel to NJIT (Feb. 12). They then return home for a back-to-back matchup with the University of Charleston (WV) on Feb. 24 and 25. Princeton comes into town on March 24 and then Mason will travel to Princeton (Apr. 1).

The Patriots host Penn State for their last home games on April 7th and 8th. Mason hits the road one final time and travels to Harvard (Apr. 14 and 15).

SENIOR NIGHT

The Patriots will host Penn State on Saturday, April 8, at 5 p.m. inside the RAC for Mason's 2023 Senior Night.