They say two’s company and three’s a crowd, but when it comes to volleyball, three is the magic number. It’s the number of times a team can touch the ball during a rally, the number of sets needed to win a match and, if the sophomores of the Ithaca College volleyball team are anything to go by, the ideal number of players for a recruiting class.

The Ithaca College volleyball team had its four-game winning streak snapped at the hands of the eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins Blue Jays Sept. 15, dropping in three sets, (25–22), (27–25) and (25–22).  The...