The ACC takes heart stage Friday in NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball.
Thursday’s recaps and prime performances observe after a day by which some league races tightened, however first a take a look at Friday’s schedule
The featured match of the day is at Louisville, when the Cardinals (14-2, 5-1), ranked No. 8 within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, play host to No. 7 Pittsburgh (15-2, 6-0) within the downtown KFC Yum! Heart. One thing’s obtained to offer of their first assembly since Louisville beat the Panthers within the 2022 NCAA nationwide semfinals 25-18, 23-25, 25-22, 22-25, 15-2. Louisville has misplaced solely to No. 3 Stanford in 5 earlier than getting upset in ACC play by NC State. Pitt has received 9 in a row and is tied with Florida State atop the standings. The 7 p.m. Jap match is on ESPNU.
Talking of FSU (12-6, 6-0), the Seminoles are at No. 12 Georgia Tech (14-2, 5-1). GT has received the final seven matches between them; FSU acquired votes in our ballot this week. That one may be seen on ACC Community Additional.
Additionally within the ACC, Wake Forest (14-4, 5-2) tries to maintain tempo when the Deacons at NC State (13-4, 3-3), which has misplaced to Miami and FSU, each in 5, since upsetting Louisville. Miami is at Clemson, Duke is at Boston Faculty, Virginia is at Notre Dame and North Carolina is at Syracuse.
Within the Massive 12, AVCA No. 20 Baylor is again at Cincinnati, the place the Bears received in 4 on Thursday, and No. 10 BYU is at Texas Tech. Saturday, in Houston, the Fertitta Heart is offered out prematurely for first time in program historical past as Houston, No. 22 within the AVCA ballot performs host to VBM No. 6 Texas.
No ranked Massive Ten groups play one another. High-ranked Wisconsin is house for Rutgers, No. 2 Nebraska performs host to Michigan State, No. 13 Penn State is at Iowa, Illinois is at Ohio State and Maryland is at Northwestern.
There’s a giant match within the SEC when league-leading VBM No. 9 Tennessee performs host to AVCA No. 22 Auburn. Florida, No. 11 within the VBM Ballot and AVCA No. 14, is at Mississippi State, VBM No. 13 Arkansas is house for Ole Miss and Texas A&M is at LSU.
There are six Pac-12 matches, together with Stanford (13-2, 6-0) house for USC (11-5, 5-1), which is tied with Arizona State, Oregon and Washington State for second. No. 4 WSU (15-2, 5-1) is house for Utah, No. 5 Oregon (15-2, 5-1) is house for Arizona and Arizona State (17-1, 5-1), within the AVCA Ballot at No. 19 and receiving votes within the VBM Ballot, is at Oregon State. Additionally, Colorado is at Washington and UCLA is at Cal.
Dayton (18-2, 7-0), AVCA No. 18 and receiving VBM votes, has an Atlantic 10 match at Dayton. The Flyers have received 13 in a row.
Within the Massive East, conference-leading Marquette (10-7, 6-0) is at Seton Corridor, second-place St. John’s (13-5, 5-1) is house for DePaul and third-place Creighton (13-4, 4-2) is house for Georgetown. Xavier (11-6, 4-2), tied with Creighton, is UConn. Marquette and Creighton are receiving VBM votes.
The Citadel (18-0, 6-0) tries to increase its unbeaten streak at Furman (15-3, 6-1) within the SoCon as the highest groups play in Greenville, South Carolina.
James Madison, which swept at Georgia State within the Solar Belt on Thursday, is again at GSU once more because the Dukes (14-4. 7-0) attempt to lengthen their seven-match successful streak, all within the convention.
The highest two groups in Convention USA obtained at it when Western Kentucky (16-4, 6-0) is at NM State (13-6, 6-2).
The one winless workforce in motion is Le Moyne (0-15), which has an NEC match at Central Connecticut State.
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In the one Massive 12 match, Baylor (9-7, 3-3) received in 4 at Cincinnati (9-7, 2-4) as Elise McGhee had 16 kills, an ace and 4 digs and Riley Simpson had 15 kills, an ace, a solo block and three digs. Cincinnati’s Carly Glendinning had a season-high 15 kills and 10 digs …
There’s a three-way tie for first at 5-1 within the Massive Sky between Weber State, Sacramento State and Montana State after Weber State swept at Sacramento State and Montana State swept Jap Washington …
In the one Massive West match, league-leading UC Santa Barbara (17-2, 7-0) swept visiting Cal Poly (11-8, 5-2) for its seventh win in a row. Tasia Farmer had 18 kills with two errors in 24 assaults to hit ,667 and had two blocks and 4 digs. Andi Kreiling had 9 kills with two errors in 12 assaults and 4 blocks, three solo, and Briana McKnight had eight kills in 18 errorless makes an attempt, two aces, 4 digs and two blocks, one solo …
Pepperdine hit .375 and maintained its lead within the West Coast Convention with a sweep of visiting Santa Clara. The Waves, 11-6, 7-0, have received 10 in a row. Grace Chillingsworth had 18 kills with one error in 33 assaults to hit .515 and had eight digs and a block. Meg Brown had 12 kills with two errors in 16 assaults to hit .625 and had a dig and 5 blocks … Second-place Loyola Marymount (13-4, 6-1) received its fifth in a row, a four-set victory over San Diego (9-7, 5-1) that knocked the Toreros out of first place …
Stephen F. Austin stored rolling within the WAC. SFA is 18-3, 7-0, and has received seven in a row after sweeping visiting Tarleton State … Grand Canyon (13-5, 6-1) is alone in second after it pulled off a reverse sweep at UTRGV (11-9, 5-2) as Tatum Parrott had 26 kills, hitting .308, within the 18-25, 23-25, 25-17, 25-16, 17-15 victory. Parrott had a block and 4 digs and Stella Gkiourda had 13 kills, an help, three aces, a block and 10 digs. GCU had a 14-10 fifth-set lead earlier than UTRGV pressured further play … Additionally within the WAC, Abilene Christian received in 5 at UT Arlington as Abilene’s Bryley Steinhilber had 23 kills and so did UTA’s Brianna Ford
All three MAC matches led to sweeps. Western Michigan (17-2, 7-0) received its seventh in a row because it beat visiting Central Michigan. Anna Calcagno had 14 kills, hit .423, and had an ace, two digs and two blocks, one solo. Maggie King had 12 kills in 27 errorless assaults, three aces, two blocks and eight digs. Ball State beat visiting Akron and NIU beat visiting Jap Michigan regardless of Callie Minshew getting 17 kills …
Southland-leading Southeastern Louisiana swept at Lamar because the Lions hit .354. Kaitlin Newsome had 16 kills, hit .433, and had two assists, an ace, 11 digs and a block. Additionally within the SLC, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi swept New Orleans as Leah Stolfus had 10 kills in 13 errorless assaults …
Kansas Metropolis stored moved right into a tie with idle Omaha in The Summit League with a sweep of North Dakota. 4 gamers had 10 or extra kills ..
Within the Mountain West, three of the 5 matches went 5. Colorado knocked Air Power out of a tie for first with a five-set win as Malaya Jones had 22 kills to go together with an ace, 9 digs and two blocks. New Mexico obtained 15 kills from Kaitlynn Biassou and 14 from Uxue Guereca because it beat Wyoming in 4. Fresno State beat San Diego State in 4 regardless of 21 kills by Taylor Underwood, Nevada beat UNLV in 5 and Boise State swept at San Jose State to remain a recreation again within the loss column of idle and league-leading Utah State …
Within the SoCon, Wofford swept at Western Carolina to remain a recreation again within the loss column behind The Citadel and third-place Mercer stored tempo because it received in 5 at Samford. Samford’s Kaleigh Merritt had 22 kills and hit .353 to go together with two aces, two assists, 16 digs and a block.