Omaha, which got here from behind all season, pulled off a reverse sweep in The Summit League remaining to assert that convention’s automotic NCAA Event bid.
Jap Illinois and Southeast Missouri gained their semifinal matches and play for the Ohio Valley Convention title, and Northern Iowa and Drake did the identical and play for the Missouri Valley Convention crown.
Coach Matt Ulmer sang the nationwide anthem after which Oregon, No. 6 within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16, overpowered visiting AVCA No. 24 USC within the Pac-12.
The teaching carousel spun a little bit quicker as three extra openings have been introduced, at Air Drive, East Tennessee State and Radford.
The recaps and training information follows, however first a have a look at Wednesday’s NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball schedule that features these OVC and Valley finals.
There’s a giant match within the ACC when No. 15 Georgia Tech goes to No. 5 Louisville. Fourth-ranked Pittsburgh is house for Miami, NC State is at Virginia, Boston Faculty is at Wake Forest and Clemson is at Virginia Tech.
Within the SEC, first-place No. 8 Kentucky holds a one-game lead over Arkansas and Tennessee. Kentucky goes to No. 10 Arkansas and ninth-ranked Tennessee is house for Mississippi State. AVCA No. 20 Florida is house for South Carolia Alabama is at Auburn and Georgia is at LSU.
AVCA No. 22 Houston at No. 25 Baylor highlights Massive 12 motion, which additionally consists of VBM No. 16 Kansas at Cincinnati, AVCA No. 15 BYU at West Virginia, UCF at Iowa State and Oklahoma at Texas Tech.
The lone Massive Ten match has No. 14 Penn State at Maryland.
Within the Pac-12, the match of the day has AVCA No. 18 Arizona State at VBM No. 11 Washington State. Second-ranked Stanford is house for Utah, Colorado goes to Cal, UCLA is at Oregon State and Arizona is at Washington.
The Massive Sky quarterfinals get underway with 4 matches, and there are two quarterfinals every within the Mountain West, Massive East and Massive West.
And there’s a full regular-season slate within the American Athletic Convention, together with conference-winner SMU at Temple.
For the whole schedule with viewing hyperlinks to each match, go to the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
SUMMIT LEAGUE: Omaha, a crew that began 0-9, goes to the NCAA Division I Event for the primary time.
The Mavericks misplaced the primary two units in opposition to Kansas Metropolis after which rallied for a 18-25, 20-25, 26-24, 25-12, 15-11 victory in Vermillion, South Dakota.
Omaha (15-13) had 5 performed with 11 or extra kills they usually accounted for all however one of many Maverick’s 66 kills, 18 greater than Kansas Metropolis. Rachel Fairbanks had 15 kills, two assists, three blocks and 27 digs. McKenna Ruch had 15 kills, a dig and a program-record 14 blocks, two solo. Shayla McCormick had 13 kills, an help, two blocks and 30 digs, Kali Jurgenmeister had 11 kills, six blocks and 5 digs, and Amanda Hardt had 11 kills, a block and a dig. The opposite kill was by Emily Huss, who had a dig and 4 blocks, three solo. Erica Fava had 21 digs, 4 assists and an ace.
As Omaha famous in its recap, “With 19 NCAA Division II Event appearances, together with one nationwide title in 1996, the Mavericks will play within the Division I Event for the primary time ever. Omaha had beforehand completed because the Summit League runner-up 4 instances.”
It implies that three groups from Nebraska, additionally Nebraska and Creighton, shall be within the NCAA tourney.
Kansas Metropolis (22-8) hit .096. Odyssey Warren led with 16 kills and 15 digs. Kaia Dunford had 13 kills, an help, an ace, three blocks and 17 digs. 5 Kangaroos had 15 or extra digs, 32 by Leah Inexperienced, who had three assists and two aces.
OHIO VALLEY: High-seeded Jap Illinois (27-4), the house crew, performs second-seeded Southeast Missouri (22-9) for the title.
EIU swept Southern Indiana (15-16) as Giovana Larregui Lopez had 12 kills, an help, two aces and 14 digs. Kaitlyn Flynn added 10 kills, three digs and two blocks, and Kate Dean had 10 kills, a dig and 5 blocks. Natalie Mitchem had 9 kills and 4 blocks. Catalina Rochaix had a kill, 41 assists, an ace, three blocks and 6 digs. Paris Downing had 11 kills and 5 blocks, one solo, for Southern Indiana.
Southeast Missouri grinded to a 16-25, 25-16, 21-25, 25-23, 15-13 victory over Lindenwood (16-14). Lucy Arndt led with 18 kills, 4 assists, three aces, 14 digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Marisa Guisti had 13 kills with one error in 37 swings to hit .324 and had two aces, 4 digs and two blocks, one solo. Izzy Lukens had seven kills with no error in 13 tries, 43 assists, a block and 9 digs. Tara Beilsmith had 36 digs, three assists and an ace, and Kalia Morris had 20 digs, three assists and an ace. Beilsmith has 3,014 profession digs, third all time within the NCAA.
Lindenwood’s Rebecca Janke had 17 kills with one error in 43 assaults to hit .372 and added 4 assists, two aces, six digs and 4 blocks, two solo. Nyah Wilson had 16 kills, two assists, an ace, two blocks and 29 digs. Jessie Seidel had 22 digs, 5 help and 4 aces. Setter Allie Otten had three kills, 44 assists, a block and 13 digs.
EIU, in a convention title match for the primary time since 2004, and SEMO break up their two regular-season matches at Southeast Missouri in late October. EU gained the primary match in 4 and the subsequent evening Southeast Missouri gained in 5.
MISSOURI VALLEY: High-seeded Northern Iowa (25-6) gained its twentieth match in a row and performs second-seeded Drake (22-9) for the title.
UNI beat Southern Illlinois (20-11) for the fifteenth time in a row however not with out some controversy. The Panthers, who gained 25-17, 27-25, 25-19, appeared to lose the second set 25-23, however the official overruled the road choose on a kill to the nook that was referred to as in. SIU challenged however replays have been inconclusive.
Kira Fallert led UNI with 18 kills and hit .457 after having two errors in 35 assaults. She added two assists, a block and 4 digs. Kaylissa Arndofer had 9 kills and 6 blocks and Olivia Tjernagel had 11 kills with one error in 13 assaults and eight blocks. Erin Powers had 16 digs and 7 assists and Tayer Alden had two kills, 41 assists, two blocks and 10 digs.
Nataly Garcia had 12 kills — an SIU editor alum would possibly say 13, because it was her hit that the official referred to as out — to steer the Salukis to go together with six digs and two blocks, one solo.
Drake beat UIC (21-12) 25-22, 25-16, 25-20 as Haley Bush had 17 kills and Macy Daufeldt 14. Bush added a block and a dig and Daufeldt, who hit .367, had an ace, a block and 6 digs. Jada Wills had 20 digs, three assists and an ace. UIC’s Martina Delucchi had 10 kills, an ace, three blocks and 5 digs.
UNI gained each conferences with Drake in 4 units, together with final Wednesday to finish the common season.
OREGON, TCU WIN: Oregon (25-5 15-4) beat visiting USC (18-11, 12-7) to remain 4 video games again of Stanford, whereas the Trojans dropped into sole possession of fifth place. Oregon coach Matt Ulmer sang the nationwide anthem, fulfilling a promise he made if this system set a report for season tickets bought, which it did this fall.
Morgan Lewis led the Geese with 19 kills within the 25-14, 24-26, 25-16, 25-22 victory, hitting .486. She had 4 blocks and two digs. Mimi Colyer had 11 kills, an ace, 10 digs and two blocks, one solo. Hannah Pukis had a kill, 47 assists, two aces, three blocks and 15 digs, and Georgia Murphy had 15 digs, 4 assists and three aces.
USC, which as soon as once more performed with out main attacker Skylar Fields, hit .118. London Wijay had 11 kills and 11 digs …
TCU of the Massive 12 swept visiting Massive South-champion Excessive Level. Melanie Parra led with 14 kills, hitting .367, and had three aces, eight digs and three blocks. The Horned Frogs play BYU on Saturday desperately needing a victory to bolster their NCAA tourney at-large possibilities.
COACHING CAROUSEL: Air Drive, which had a profitable report this season and went .500 within the Mountain West, fired Keith Barnett after 9 seasons — the final 5 as head coach. In these 5 years the Falcons went 54-76, 32-53 within the Mountain West. This previous season, Air Drive completed 17-12, 9-9. Air Drive has by no means been to the NCAA Event …
ETSU fired Dr. Bruce Atkinson after only one season. His crew completed 6-23 this season, 5-11 within the SoCon, dropping 5 of its final six matches. The chiropracter had beforehand been the pinnacle coach at Towson, Winthrop, Dana, Texas-Brownsville (now UTRGV), Hawai’i Hilo and Delaware State. ETSU went to the NCAA Event 3 times, the final in 2018 …
Radford’s Sherisa Livingston resigned after 4 seasons on the Virginia faculty. Radford completed 6-17 this season, 5-9 within the Massive South. In 4 years, the crew went 27-68, 20-41. Radford has been to the NCAA Event 4 instances, the final in 2017.
AVCA POW: The AVCA nationwide participant of the week is Kansas graduate pupil Reagan Cooper. Within the Jayhawks’ sweep of Baylor and four-set win over BYU she averaged 6.0 kills/set and hit .463. She additionally averaged .71 blocks.