No. 1 Wisconsin faces No. 2 Nebraska after USC upsets No. 4 WSU, No. 5 Louisville survives

Lastly.

That is the day when the highest two groups within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot face off: Prime-ranked Wisconsin goes to No. 2 Nebraska in a battle of Huge Ten groups which are every 18-0 total and 9-0 within the Huge Ten.

However we will’t get to that earlier than speaking about one other freaky Friday, through which No. 4 Washington State misplaced at unranked USC, which pulled off a late-night Pac-12 reverse sweep. Or that No. 5 Louisville needed to pull off an ACC reverse sweep of its personal to win at Wake Forest. Or that No. 7 Arkansas received in 4 at Tennessee within the SEC, or that unranked Missouri swept at AVCA No. 23 Auburn. 

The Citadel swept Samford to enhance to 21-0, 9-0 within the SoCon and performs at Chattanooga Saturday,, and Le Moyne lastly broke by because the 1-17 Dolphins beat Stonehill within the NEC.

Line of the day: Purdue Fort Wayne’s Panna Ratkai, a redshirt-freshman exterior hitter from Hungary, had 35 kills in a five-set loss to Milwaukee, most kills within the Horizon League since 2011. And she or he additionally had 4 aces, three blocks and 7 digs.

Value noting: Paige Briggs, who not solely had 14 kills and hit .522, had 10 aces in Western Kentucky’s sweep of Sam Houston.

The recaps and high performances observe, however first a have a look at Saturday’s NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball schedule, beginning with the long-awaited Wisconsin-at-Nebraska match. The 7 p.m. Central match might be proven on the Huge Ten Community and it options the nation’s high offensive staff, Wisconsin, in opposition to top-of-the-line on protection. Wisconsin leads the B1G in kills per set (14.02) and hitting share (.315). Nebraska leads the nation in opponent hitting share (.123). Wisconsin is a veteran staff; Nebraska is younger. And each groups are coping with accidents. Wisconsin has received 27 B1G matches in a row, together with 10 sweeps in a row; Nebraska leads the all-time collection 19-13-1, Wisconsin has received the final 10. 

The staff simply behind, 8-1 Penn State, is off Saturday however performs host to Purdue on Sunday. Additionally within the B1G Saturday, Iowa is at Maryland, Michigan at Northwestern and Ohio State at Indiana.

There are three Huge 12 matches and all contain ranked groups. AVCA No. 24 is at No. 21 Baylor, AVCA No. 22 Houston is at Texas Tech and AVCA No. 20 Kansas is at TCU.

The ACC, Pac-12 and SEC have the time off.

Dayton, No. 15 within the VBM Ballot, received its sixteenth in a row Friday by beating Saint Louis and performs the Billikens once more Saturday within the Atlantic 10. 

There’s a full slate within the Huge East, together with AVCA No. 15 Creighton at Windfall. Creighton is a sport again of Marquette, which performs at Xavier, and St. John’s, which performs at Villanova.

Nonetheless winless: Saint Peter’s (0-23) will get one other shot within the NEC when the Peacocks play Rider and 0-10 Hampton performs host to UNC Wilmington within the CAA.

Wish to watch? We’ve got the conference-by-conference schedule with viewing hyperlinks for any match that’s being proven in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.

PAC-12: USC (12-7, 6-3) rallied for a 17-25, 14-25, 25-22, 25-23, 15-8 reverse-sweep win over visiting Washington State 17-3, 7-2) for the Trojans’ first win over a top-five staff since 2018. Skylar Fields led USC with 21 kills, a block and 15 digs. Londay Wijay returned to the lineup to get 12 kills, an help, an ace and 9 digs. Rylie McGinest had 12 kills in in 19 errorless assaults and had an help and three digs. USC hit .246 as setter Mia Tuaniga had a kill, 48 assists, two blocks and 15 digs. WSU, which hit .279, obtained 18 kills from Pia Timmer, who had three assists, 4 blocks and eight digs. Iman Isanovic had 13 kills, an help, two aces, 4 blocks and 11 digs … 

League-leading No. 3 Stanford (15-2, 8-0) hit .367 and swept at Oregon State (7-11, 2-6) as Kendall Kipp had 15 kills in 30 errorless assaults to go together with eight blocks, two solo … No. 9 Oregon (16-3, 6-2) hit .406 and swept visiting Cal (13-6, 3-5) … No. 14 Arizona State (18-2, 6-2) swept at Utah (8-10, 3-5) … UCLA (10-8, 2-6) swept visiting Washington (13-6, 4-4) … Colorado (10-9, 2-6) swept visiting Arizona (6-13, 1-7). The Buffs hit .330 and Lexi Hadrych had 16 kills, hit .419 and had two digs and two blocks.

ACC: Louisville (17-2, 8-1) rallied for a 21-25, 23-25, 25-15, 25-5, 15-7 win at Wake Forest (14-6, 5-4), and, no, that fourth-set rating just isn’t a typo. Louisville had extra kills (56-43), aces (14-5), blocks (14-6) and digs (55-50) and had a considerable hitting share benefit (.338 to .097). Anna DeBeer led the Cardinals with 17 kills whereas hitting .359 to go together with an help, 5 aces and 12 digs. PK Kong had 10 kills in 19 errorless assaults and 6 blocks, 5 solo, and Charitie Luper had 15 kills, hit .351 and had an help, an ace, 4 digs and three blocks, one solo. Wake’s Paige Forest had 12 kills … 

No. 7 Pittsburgh (18-3, 9-1) swept at NC State (15-5, 5-4) … No. 13 Georgia Tech (16-3, 7-2) beat visiting Duke (12-8, 3-6) in 4 … Florida State (14-7, 8-1) stored tempo with a sweep of visiting Boston Faculty (14-9, 3-6) … Miami (13-6, 6-3) swept visiting Syracuse (2-17, 0-9) … Virginia Tech (12-8, 2-7) beat visiting Notre Dame (10-7, 4-5) in 5 … North Carolina (10-8, 4-5) received in 5 at Clemson (12-9, 3-6) behind 25 kills from Mabrey Shaffmaster, who had an help, an ace, 15 digs and 5 blocks, two solo.

SEC: Arkansas (18-2, 8-0) maintained its lead with a 25-27, 25-16, 25-22, 25-20 win at Tennessee (16-3. 7-2), its first in Knoxville in 9 seasons. Arkansas, which hit .321, obtained 24 kills from Taylor Head, who hit .362 and had an help, 21 digs and a block. Maggie Cartwright had 13 kills, an help, 12 digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Jillian Gillen had 12 kills, an help, 5 digs and three blocks. Hannah Hogue, who had 49 assists, had 28 digs and a block. Courtney Jackson had 21 digs, eight assists and an ace. Tennessee hit .153. Raeven Chase, who had 5 blocks, and Jenaisya Moore had 13 kills every. Yellaniz Torres had 30 digs and 4 assists …

Missouri (13-7, 5-4) not solely received at Auburn (14-5, 4-4), it swept the assembly of Tigers. Jordan Iliff had 13 kills, hit .357 and had an help, two aces, eight digs and two blocks. … Kentucky (9-7, 7-1) stored tempo a sport again of Arkansas with a sweep of Mississippi State (9-9, 2-6) … Florida (13-4, 5-3) received in 4 at Texas A&M (14-5, 6-3) as Sofia Victoria had 17 kills and hit .382.

BIG TEN: VBM No. 11 Penn State (14-4, 8-1) swept Iowa (8-13, 0-9) as Jess Mruzik had 14 kills and hit .306 … Illinois (9-10, 4-5) received in 5 at Maryland (13-8, 3-6) behind 15 kills from Jessica Nunge, who hit .308 and had an help, an ace, two digs and a block. Kennedy Collins had 9 kills in 17 errorless assaults, three aces, three digs and 9 blocks, one solo … Minnesota (9-8, 5-4) swept visiting Rutgers (9-10, 1-8), which hit .046. 9 Minnesota gamers had kills, 9 by Taylor Landfair.

BIG 12: No. 10 BYU (18-3, 7-2) hit .387 and swept visiting Iowa State (13-6. 4-4) for the second straight day. Erin Livingston led a balanced assault with 12 kills, hitting .455 … Cincinnati (10-9, 3-6), which misplaced in 5 at West Virginia (9-13, 2-7) on Thursday, received in 5 Friday as Abby Walker and Elissa Acantara had 17 kills every … Houston (10-7, 3-5) swept at Texas Tech (8-13, 1-8) as Abbie Jackson had 19 kills, hit .421 and had two assists, an ace, 5 digs and a solo block … Kansas State (11-8, 5-5) swept at Oklahoma (7-11, 1-8).

Across the nation

Dayton swept visiting Saint Louis to enhance to 21-2, 10-0 within the A10 as eight Flyers had kills, 10 by Lexie Almodovar. Additionally within the A10, Fordham received in 5 at George Mason, however Mason’s Salem Yohannes had 26 kills, hit .350 and had 4 assists, an ace, 11 digs and three blocks, two solo …

In The Citadel’s SoCon sweep of Samford, eight Bulldogs obtained kills, eight every by Kathleen Bula and Ali Ruffin … 

The bunch on the high of the Huge East stayed the identical as co-leaders Marquette hit .447 and swept at Butler and St. John’s did the identical at Georgetown. Creighton swept at UConn. Nora Sis had 15 kills, her first kills for Creighton, which hit .390, since September 3. Additionally within the Huge East, DePaul received in 4 at Xavier, which knocked the Musketeeers out of a tie with second-place Creighton, as Jill Pressly had 23 kills whereas hitting .348 to go together with an help, an ace, 21 digs and a block … 

AVCA No. 25 Western Kentucky hit .464 and stored command of Convention USA with a sweep over visiting Sam Houston. Paige Briggs had 14 kills with two errors in 23 swings to hit .522 and had 10 aces and eight digs …

SMU (9-1) received its American Athletic showdown with Rice (7-2) and now leads Wichita State  (8-1) by a sport within the win column, whereas East Carolina (9-2) moved into third. SMU beat Rice in 4 as Jamison Wheeler had 15 kills, Emma Clothier 14 and Natalie Perdue 13. Wichita State beat Tulsa in 4 as Sophia Rohling had 18 kills for the Shockers and Kayley Cassaday had 18 for Tulsa. ECU beat Memphis in 4 regardless of hitting .112. Additionally within the AAC, North Texas received in 4 however South Florida’s Buse Hazan had 27 kills, hit .358 and had three aces, eight digs and a block …

ASUN-leader FGCU obtained 16 kills from Shelby Kent, who hit .467, and swept at Bellarmine to enhance to 17-5, 9-0 with its tenth win in a row. Lipscomb stayed a sport again with a four-set win over visiting Kennesaw State …

Milwaukee pulled right into a tie for first within the Horizon League with idle Wright State by profitable in 5 at Purdue Fort Wayne as Madi Malone had 26 kills, 18 digs, an ace and a solo block. However the star of the evening was PFW’s Panna Ratkai, who tied this system rally-scoring file with 35 kills. Ratkai, who had 12 errors in 86 assaults, added 4 aces, three blocks and 7 digs. Additionally within the HL, Natalie Stepanovich had 23 kills and hit .362 for Robert Morris in a four-set win over Oakland. Stepanovich hit .362 and had an help, two aces, 14 digs and 5 blocks, one solo …

In the one Ivy League match, Yale constructed its first-place result in two full video games over idle Princeton with a sweep of Brown. Audrey Leak had 16 kills, hit .333 and had 4 digs and a block … 

In the important thing MACtion match of the day, Buffalo (18-4, 8-2) held off visiting Ball State (12-9, 9-1) in 5 to carry keep its two-game led within the East whereas dropping Ball State out of a tie within the West with Western Michigan (20-2, 10-0). Buffalo had 4 gamers with 12 or extra kills, 16 every by Abby Leigh and Courtney Okwara. Leigh hit .438 and had 4 aces and 5 blocks, whereas Okwara hit .481. WMU swept at Jap Michigan. Additionally within the MAC, Bowling Inexperienced hit .470 (44 kills with 5 errors in 83 assaults) in a sweep over Kent State …

Haley Bush went off for 28 kills in Drake’s Missouri Valley five-set win at Murray State. Bush hit .307 and had an ace and 18 digs. League-leading Northern Iowa swept at Belmont and Emily Holterhaus had 18 kills, hit .382, and had 4 blocks, three solo. Missouri State beat visiting UIC in 5 of their MVC match, however UIC’s Martina Delucchi had 26 kills … 

Jap Illinois moved into an Ohio Valley tie for first with idle Southeast Missouri with a five-set win at Tennessee Tech as Giovana Larregui Lopez had 24 kills and hit .400 to go together with 4 blocks, one solo, and Natalie Mitchem had 20 kills with one error in 36 assaults to hit .536 to go together with 5 blocks. Additionally within the OVC, Bianca Anderson had 25 kills for Southern Indiana in a four-set win at Western Illinois. Anderson had two errors in 38 swings and 4 blocks …

There was a giant upset within the Patriot League when Bucknell received in 5 at Colgate, dropping Colgate right into a first-place tie with Military West Level, which swept Lafayette. Bucknell beat Colgate for the primary time since 2017 and broke the Crimson Raiders’ 33-match dwelling profitable streak in a wild one, 31-33, 25-17, 21-25, 25-22, 15-11. 4 Bucknell gamers had 11 or extra kills, 18 by Catherine Jamison. Gillian Hauschild had 18 kills for Colgate …

Coastal Carolina is alone on the high of the Solar Belt East after sweeping James Madison.  Texas State obtained a giant sweep over South Alabama. Troy is alone in first within the West after profitable in 5 at Louisiana-Monroe as Tori Hester had 23 kills, six aces, 20 digs and a block. Additionally within the Solar Belt, Mia Wesley had 24 kills for Southern Miss in its five-set win at Arkansas State …

And Le Moyne, which misplaced its first 17 matches, broke by within the NEC with a sweep of visiting Stonehill. Kayla Anslett had 17 kill, hit .387 and had an help, an ace, 5 digs and a block.