NCAA Girls
November 23, 2023
Northern Iowa received the Missouri Convention title, however not earlier than combating off a decided Drake workforce that took the Panthers to 5 units after falling behind 0-2.
Japanese Illinois received the Ohio Valley title.
Louisville, No. 5 within the VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16, received in a tricky 4 over No. 15 Georgia Tech within the ACC, the place No. 4 Pittsburgh blasted Miami.
Within the battle of the day within the SEC, No. 8 Kentucky swept No. 10 Arkansas.
The recaps comply with, however first a have a look at the Thanksgiving Day schedule, and, sure, there may be NCAA Division I girls’s volleyball on Thanksgiving.
The Mountain West semifinals are set with top-seeded Utah State taking part in fifth-seeded Fresno State and No. 2 Colorado State taking part in sixth-seeded New Mexico.
The Huge Sky semifinals pits top-seeded Sacramento State vs. No. 4 Weber State and seventh-seeded Japanese Washington — which pulled off an enormous upset — vs. No. 3 Montana State.
For the whole schedule with viewing hyperlinks to each match, go to the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
NORTHERN IOWA: UNI (26-6) held off Drake (22-10) 25-19. 25-19, 23-25, 23-25, 15-6 as six gamers had seven or extra kills, 17 by Kira Fallert. Fallert had an help, three aces, 16 digs and a solo block because the Panthers received their twenty first match in a row. Emily Holterhaus had 14 kills, three digs and 4 blocks, two solo. Layanna Inexperienced had 13 kills, hit .370, and had 5 digs and eight blocks, one solo. Tayler Alden had seven kills, 51 assists, an ace, 12 digs and 5 blocks. Erin Powers had 28 digs, 10 assists and two aces.
Taylor Oberpriller led Drake with 19 kills, hitting .459, to go along with two assists, two blocks and 17 digs. Haley Bush had 15 kills, an help, two blocks and 11 digs. Macy Daufeldt had 11 kills, an help, two aces, a block and 21 digs. Jada Wills had 22 digs, 4 assists and an ace.
OHIO VALLEY: Japanese Illinois (28-4) received the convention title for the third time — the primary since 1998 — because the Panthers swept Southeast Missouri (22-10). Kaitlyn Flynn and Giovana Larregui Lopez had 12 kills every and Kate Dean had eight with no errors in 11 assaults. Christina Martinz Mundo had an unbelievable 33 digs within the three units to go along with six assists and an ace.
MOUNTAIN WEST: Fifth-seeded Fresno State ousted fourth-seeded Boise State and sixth-seeded New Mexico knocked out third-seeded UNLV.
Fresno (17-13) obtained 13 kills from Paige Bartsch, who had three aces, seven digs and a block. Boise State’s season ended 14-15 …
New Mexico 19-11) received 24-26, 25-19, 23-25, 25-14, 15-12 and is within the convention semifinals for the primary time in program historical past. Uxue Guereca led with 21 kills, hitting .366. She had two assists, two aces, two block and 15 digs. Athena Dimitriadis added 14 kills and had one error in 28 assaults to go along with three assists, an ace, two blocks and 4 digs. UNLV (19-12) obtained 25 kills from Isabel Martin.Â
BIG SKY: Japanese Washington (13-16), the seventh seed, surprised the sector with a 25-23, 18-25, 23-25, 25-23, 15-10 upset of second-seeded Northern Colorado (17-11) on its dwelling flooring. EWU received a postseason match for the primary time since 2008.
Sage Brustad had 17 kills, an help, an ace, 4 blocks and 6 digs. Bri Gunderson had 15 kills, an help, an ace, six digs and 5 blocks. Makenzie Harris led Northern Colorado with 24 kills, an help, two blocks and 9 digs …
High-seeded Sacramento State (21-10) swept Idaho State (8-20) as Kalani Hayes and Caitlin Volkmann had 11 kills every and Bridgette Smith had 10 … No. 3 Montana State hit .395 and (20-7) swept Montana (11-18) as Kira Thomsen had 13 kills. Jourdain Kamps had 9 kills with one error in 17 assaults … fourth-seeded Weber State (19-9) swept Portland State (16-12) as Baylee Bodily had 16 kills, hitting .481.
ACC: Louisville beat visiting Georgia Tech in 4, Pitt swept Miami, Boston School received in 4 at Wake Forest, Clemson swept Virginia Tech and NC State swept Virginia.
SEC: Kentucky (18-7, 16-1) stored its one-game lead over Tennessee (24-3, 15-2) and dropped Arkansas (24-5, 14-3) alone into third by sweeping the Razorbacks to clinch the league title …No. 9 Tennessee swept visiting Mississippi State … AVCA No. 20 Florida beat visiting South Carolina in 4 …Georgia had a four-set win at LSU … Texas A&M swept visiting Ole Miss … Auburn swept visiting Alabama, which is 0-17 and has yet another shot at a convention victory when it performs host to A&M on Saturday.
PAC-12: No. 2 Stanford swept visiting Utah, No. 11 Washington State beat visiting AVCA No. 18 Arizona State in 5, Washington beat Arizona in 4, UCLA obtained previous Oregon State in 5 and Colorado received in 4 at Cal.
BIG 12: AVCA No. 25 Baylor beat No 22 Houston in 4, VBM No. 16 Kansas swept Cincinnati, AVCA No. 16 BYU swept West Virginia, Iowa State swept UCF and Texas Tech beat Oklahoma in 5.Â
BIG EAST: Third-seeded St. John’s swept sixth-seeded Villanova and fifth-seeded DePaul knocked off fourth-seeded Xavier for its Huge East tourney victory in program historical past.
St. John’s (22-9) obtained 12 kills from Erin Jones, who had two assists, an ace and eight digs. Villanova’s season ended 17-14. DePaul (19-12) beat Xavier (18-3) in 4 as Jill Pressly had 24 kills, hitting .340, to go along with two assists, an ace, 12 digs and a block. Audrey Kemp had 20 kills, hitting .385.
The Friday semifinals pit St. John’s in opposition to Marquette and DePaul vs. Creighton.
BIG WEST: The event obtained underway with two five-setters as fourth-seeded Lengthy Seaside State ousted No. 5 UC Irvine and third-seeded Cal Poly pulled off a reverse sweep to get previous sixth-seeded UC Davis.
Lengthy Seaside State (20-9) received 25-16, 25-27, 25-14, 22-25, 15-10 as Elise Agi led with 19 kills, two assists, an ace, 9 digs and two blocks. UCI ended its season 11-19 …Â
Cal Poly (21-10) received 19-25, 15-25, 25-19, 25-22, 15-13 as UC Davis ended its season 13-16. Tommi Stockham led the Mustangs with 16 kills, an help, an ace and 6 digs. Reese Diersbock led UC Davis with 17 kills.
The semifinals are Friday when Lengthy Seaside faces top-seeded UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly performs Hawai’i.
AAC: Convention-winner SMU (25-6 18-1) received its fifteenth in a row with a regular-season-ending sweep at Temple as seven Mustangs had kills, 12 by Jamison Wheeler. She had eight digs and two blocks … Danyle Courtley had 22 kills for Rice in a five-set loss to South Florida, which obtained 17 kills from Buse Hazan … Kayley Cassaday had 17 kills for Tulsa in a four-set win over Charlotte. Cassaday, who had an ace and 15 digs, is second within the NCAA in kills with 575, one behind Giula Cardona of Evansville and 27 forward of USC’s Skylar Fields, who missed her workforce’s final two matches.