On Thursday, the NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball highlight shined on some mid-majors who made statements, together with Southeastern Louisiana (Southland), Utah State (Mountain West), Sacramento State (Massive Sky), Stephen F. Austin (WAC) and Denver and Omaha (The Summit League).
Pepperdine continued its West Coast Convention dominance and No. 5 Texas gained at West Virginia.
Friday the main target is on the Energy 5, beginning within the ACC, the place the highest 4 groups play one another.
Louisville (20-2, 11-1), the No. 3 group within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, performs at No. 11 Georgia Tech (19-3, 10-2), whereas No. 7 Pittsburgh (20-3, 11-1) is at Florida State (16-8, 10-2). The implications are enormous for all 4, with Louisville at No. 5 within the RPI, Pitt at 6, Georgia Tech at 17 and FSU at 30. The group a sport again, Miami (15-7, 8-4, RPI 39) is residence for Virginia. Wake Forest (16-7, 7-5, RPI 31) is at Duke, NC State (17-6, 7-5, RPI 39) is residence for Boston School. Virginia Tech is at North Carolina and Notre Dame is at Clemson.
Two groups coming off stunning losses spotlight the Pac-12 schedule when No. 4 Stanford performs host to No. 9 Washington State. Stanford holds a two-game lead over No. 6 Oregon and No. 13 Arizona State and is up three video games on WSU. Oregon is residence for Utah, whereas ASU is at UCLA. Washington goes to Cal, Colorado is at Oregon State and Arizona is at USC.
SEC-leading No. 12 Kentucky (11-7, 9-1, RPI 10) is at South Carolina, whereas No. 10 Tennessee (18-3, 9-2, RPI 13), a half sport again of idle Arkansas (20-4, 10-2, RPI 8), performs at AVCA No. 20 Florida (14-5, 6-4, RPI 16). Alabama is at Texas A&M and Mississippi State is at Missouri.
The Massive 12 slate consists of league-leading No. 5 Texas again at West Virginia, No. 14 Kansas residence for Kansas State, No. 15 BYU residence for Cincinnati, AVCA No. 22 Houston residence for UCF, and Iowa State at TCU.
Simply two of the Massive Ten’s ranked groups are in motion they usually play one another when top-ranked and unbeaten Nebraska goes to Penn State. Nebraska has gained the final six conferences, however this sequence hardly ever disappoints and this one ought to be fairly a defensive battle. Nebraska tops the B1G in opponent hitting proportion (.125) and Penn state is third (.171). Additionally they rank 1 and three in kills, so one thing has to provide. Iowa is at Michigan, Minnesota is at Ohio State, Indiana is at Rutgers and Maryland is at Michigan State.
Pink-hot Dayton (25-2, 14-0) goes for its twenty first in a row when the No. 16 Flyers play the primary of back-to-back Atlantic 10 matches towards Rhode Island.
Within the Massive East, Marquette, the AVCA No. 25, is up by a sport over AVCA No. 17 Creighton and St. John’s. Marquette is off, whereas Creighton is residence for DePaul and St. John’s goes to Windfall.
The 2 groups tied for first within the Horizon League play one another when Milwaukee goes to Wright State.
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Texas (17-3, 12-0) didn’t win simply, however finally got here away with a 25-21, 25-18, 25-19 victory at West Virginia (9-16. 2-10) in the one Massive 12 match of the day. The Longhorns, who’ve gained 12 in a row, hit .359 and obtained 12 kills from Madisen Skinner. Molly Philips, who had no error in 11 assaults, and Jenna Wenaas had 9 kills every. Bailey Miller had 14 kills for WVU …
Pepperdine (15-6 11-0 West Coast Convention) hit .477 and crushed visiting Gonzaga (3-19, 0-11) for its 14th win in a row. The Waves had 50 kills and eight errors in 88 swings within the 25-11, 25-12, 25-12 victory. Grace Chillingsworth led with 12 kills, hitting .500 after having one error in 22 assaults. She had two aces and 16 digs … San Diego and Loyola Marymount stayed two video games again as USD swept at Santa Clara and LMU did the identical to visiting Portland. USD’s Amber Stivrins had 18 kills and hit .356, whereas LMU hit .478, together with 12 kills by Kari Geissberger. She hit .471 and had an ace and three blocks. Additionally within the WCC, Pacific gained in 4 at San Francisco as Alexa Edwards had 21 kills, 10 digs and 4 blocks …
Southeastern Louisiana (23-4, 14-1) gained its seventeenth in a row and broke the tie on the high of the Southland by decimating visiting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (18-9, 13-2). The Lions hit .478 within the 25-8, 25-19, 25-19 beat down with 51 kills and eight errors in 90 assaults. Rachel Hartmann had 20 kills with one error in 26 assaults to hit .731 and had an help and 5 digs. Kailin Newsome had 18 kills, hit .517 and had 4 aces and two digs. Jacqueline Arrington had 5 kills in 12 errorless swings and 5 blocks, one solo. Gracie Duplechein had 39 assists, three blocks and 13 digs. Leah Stoltus had 9 kills and three blocks for the Islanders. McNeese stayed two video games behind SLU with a sweep at Lamar as McKenzie Moore had 13 kills with one error in 24 assaults, an help, two aces, 4 digs and two block. New Orleans beat UIW in 5 and Karen Cordero Barr had 24 kills, two aces and 21 digs …
Sacramento State (18-8, 11-1) gained its sixth Massive Sky match in a row by beating visiting Jap Washington in 4 and constructed its result in two full video games over idle Weber State. Bridgette Smith led the Hornets with 21 kills whereas hitting .314 and had two aces, a block and 7 digs. Additionally within the Massive Sky, Northern Colorado hit .435 and gained in 4 at Montana State. Makenzie Harris had 17 kills with solely two kills in 24 assaults, hitting .625 to go together with an help, three aces, 14 digs and a block …
Utah State (19-5, 12-1) gained its ninth in a row and leads the Mountain West by three video games after sweeping Air Drive. The Aggies, who hit .381, obtained 14 kills from Tatum Stall and 10 from Shelby Cappllonch. Stall hit .429 and had an help, an ace and eight digs, and Capllonch hit .364 and had three assists and 9 digs. Additionally within the Mountain West, New Mexico gained in 4 at Boise State, which obtained 26 kills, 13 digs and a block from Paige Bartsch. Bartsch leads the MWC in kills with 238, 25 forward of UNLV’s Isabel Martin. Bartsch leads the convention in aces with 23 and Capplonch is second with 22 …
Stephen F. Austin (24-3, 13-0) builts its WAC result in two video games with a sweep of Seattle U as Grand Canyon(18-6, 11-2) fell off the tempo by shedding in 4 at Tarleton State. SFA gained its thirteenth in a row because it hit .337 and obtained 13 kills from Ielan Bradley, who had 4 blocks, two solo …
The Summit League has 5 groups inside a sport within the loss column of one another. Denver and Omaha are tied at 10-4, North Dakota State is 9-4 and Kansas Metropolis and South Dakota are 8-4. Denver hit .464 and swept at Oral Roberts. Ava Reynolds led with 11 kills and hit .562. Omaha beat Kansas Metropolis in 4 as Rachel Fairbanks had 20 kills, hit .586 and had 23 digs and two blocks. North Dakota State beat visiting South Dakota State in 5 as 4 gamers had 12 or extra kills, 18 by Ali Hinze, who had 4 assists, an ace, 17 digs and three blocks. And South Dakota swept at St. Thomas as Madison Harms had 12 kills with one error in 17 swings, two digs and 4 blocks, two solo …
The Citadel is now 23-2 after shedding two in a row, however at 11-2 nonetheless holds a two-game lead over Mercer within the SoCon. The Bulldogs misplaced at their second straight match, this time in 5 at Wofford (17-7, 8-5) earlier than 426 followers, second largest in program historical past. 25-21, 22-25, 25-19, 21-25, 15-12. Wofford had 4 gamers with 11 or extra kills, 14 by Bri Mahoney, who had an help and 6 digs. Mary Emily Morgan had 13 kills, an asist, an ace, two solo blocks and 22 digs and Laney Klika had 33 digs and 4 assists. Ali Ruffin had 16 kills for The Citadel to go together with three assists, two aces, a solo block and 15 digs. Jaelynn Elgert had 35 digs and three assists …
Southern Miss beat visiting Louisiana-Lafayette in 4 within the Solar Belt as Mia Wesley had 21 kills, two assists, two aces, 12 digs and a block … South Florida gained its American Athletic Convention match in 5 at Temple as Maria Clara Andrade had 24 kills, hit .400 and had two assists, an ace, 11 digs and two blocks, one solo … Liberty swept its Convention USA match towards visiting Louisiana Tech as Kate Phillips had 16 kills with one error in 33 swings, two assists, a block and 15 digs … Grambling gained its SWAC match in 4 over Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Kai Williams had 23 kills, hit .367 and had three aces, 18 digs and a block.