The Big East is a tricksy conference sometimes.
The past few years, they’ve decided to run out the women’s volleyball preseason awards before the soccer awards. Why is that? I’m not sure, especially since volleyball starts their season after women’s soccer and at the same time as men’s soccer. The going theory is related to when league play actually begins, and in the past, because of volleyball’s 18 game league schedule, they have actually started before either soccer slate. That’s not the case this year, with Marquette‘s women’s soccer team playing Villanova on September 15th, but volleyball doesn’t play a Big East squad until the 21st.