Utah State has wrapped up the Mountain West regular-season title, the AVCA put out a brand new ballot and introduced its participant of the week, and we are able to look forward to a 10-match Wednesday NCAA schedule that features top-ranked Nebraska, No. 4 Texas, and key battles within the SEC and Summit.
Begin with Wednesday’s NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball schedule as No. 1 Nebraska is dwelling for Northwestern within the Massive Ten. Nebraska is 23-0, 14-0 within the B1G, whereas Northwestern (11-13, 5-9) is tied with Maryland for tenth place. Additionally within the B1G, shock of the league Michigan State (16-9, 8-6) is at Ohio State (9-4, 6-8).
Texas (18-3, 13-0), which holds a four-game lead within the Massive 12, is at Kansas State (13-10, 7-7). Ok-State received everybody’s consideration with back-to-back upset sweeps of BYU two weeks in the past, however final weekend dropped two matches at No. 14 Kansas.
SEC-leading Kentucky (13-7, 11-1), No. 11 within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, is at Auburn 18-5, 8-4) , which is No. 24 within the AVCA prime 25. Kentucky leads idle Arkansas by a recreation within the loss column. South Carolina has an SEC match at Mississippi State.
Omaha (12-12, 11-3) performs at Denver (11-11, 10-4), the staff it leads by a recreation in The Summit League. Denver is a half recreation up on idle Kansas Metropolis.
St. John’s (20-6, 12-2), in a three-way tie with idle Creighton and Marquette atop the Massive East, goes to Seton Corridor.
Additionally Wednesday, CSUN is at UC Davis within the Massive West, Binghamton is at Manhattan within the MAAC and Japanese Kentucky has an ASUN match at Bellarmine.
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UTAH STATE: Utah State (21-5, 14-1) gained the Mountain West regular-season title by beating visiting Boise State (11-14, 7-8).
“An incredible crowd,” Utah State coach Rob Neilson mentioned. “3:30 within the afternoon and we packed the Estes. We’re so grateful for the followers celebrating this glorious staff.
“Mountain West champions. I can’t imagine it. What an important day. What an important efficiency. That Boise State staff performed phenomenally nicely and we simply battled. That is such a examined group. Such a veteran group. I’m so pleased with them.”
Utah State gained the 2021 MWC regular-season title and final 12 months gained the event and the NCAA bid that got here with it, dropping to Arkansas within the first spherical.
The Aggies, who’ve 11 victories in a row, gained 25-27, 25-20, 27-25, 25-20 as Shelby Capllonch and Tatum Nonetheless had 15 kills every. Kelsey Watson added 11 kills, hit .500 and had six blocks, one solo. Leah Wilton-LaBoy had three kills in as many tries, 23 assists and 9 digs.
Boise State’s Paige Bartsch had 25 kills, an help, an ace, six digs and 4 blocks, one solo.
MONDAY-TUESDAY: Additionally Monday, within the SWAC, Prairie View swept at Southern and Texas Southern gained in 4 at Alcorn and Southern Utah beat visiting Utah Tech in 5 within the WAC. SUU’s Andrea Spasojevic and Utah Tech’s Hannah Howard had 19 kills every.
There have been three matches Tuesday, as Oakland swept IUPUI and Cleveland State gained in 4 at Purdue Fort Wayne in the Horizon League. Oakland’s Ainsley Guse had 10 kills with one error in 19 assaults and three blocks, one solo. Laken Voss, the freshman daughter of Twenty fourth-year Cleveland State coach Chuck Voss, led the Vikings with 19 kills, hitting .315, to go along with an help, 16 digs and a block. Within the Ohio Valley, Tennessee Tech gained its fifth in a row, a four-set victory over visiting Morehead State. Tennessee Tech’s Ava Schubert had 18 kills, three digs and three blocks.
AVCA POLL: Very similar to the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, the AVCA’s nonetheless has Nebraska and Wisconsin 1-2 with loads of modifications after that. Texas and Stanford each moved up a spot to Nos. 3 and 4, respectively, whereas Louisville dropped two notches to No. 5.
The remainder of the highest 10 exhibits Oregon, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Washington State and Tennessee.
USC moved in at No. 25 and Marquette dropped out. Click on right here for the full AVCA Division I Girls’s Coaches Ballot.
AVCA POW: The nationwide participant of the week is USC’s Skylar Fields. The senior exterior averaged eight kills per set and hit .442 final week in victories over Arizona and Arizona State. She leads the Pac-12 in kills with 493 and in kills per set (5.14). The subsequent closest in kills is ASU’s Marta Levinska with 397.