Massive upset win for Fresno St.; Nebraska vs. Wisconsin, spherical 2

The primary large upset of the postseason ensured that the Mountain West  Convention will get two groups into the NCAA Event after fifth-seeded Fresno State knocked out No. 1 Utah State. 

Utah State, a runaway MWC regular-season winner, was No. 16 in the latest NCAA RPI and even with the loss remains to be No. 22 within the replace KPI.

That was one among 4 Thanksgiving Day ends in NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball, which now turns its focus to the rematch: VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 No. 1 and unbeaten Nebraska at No. 3 Wisconsin.

Nebraska is 27-0, 18-0 within the Massive Ten, which incorporates beating visiting Wisconsin on October 21 — 25-22, 17-25, 20-25, 26-24, 15-13 — in what was then a battle of unbeatens. 

The Badgers (24-3, 15-3) have misplaced twice since, in 4 at Penn State and in 5 at Purdue, however performed each with out 6-foot-9 Anna Smrek. 

Nebraska is tenth in hitting share (.286) and leads the nation in opponent hitting share (.131).

Wisconsin is second nationally in hitting share (.308) and fifth in opponent hitting share (.148).

Nebraska, which leads the sequence 20-13-1 after breaking a 10-match shedding streak to Wisconsin in that match a month in the past, have staged some epic battles over time. The penultimate was Wisconsin’s five-set win within the 2021 NCAA title match.

Nebraska’s 18-0 B1G begin a program greatest since becoming a member of the convention in 2011. Since 1996 — when Nebraska started a 20-match league schedule within the Massive 12 — the Huskers have gone undefeated in convention play 4 occasions, however by no means within the Massive Ten. The final time was 2004 within the Massive 12. Nebraska went 34-0 in 2000, coach John Cook dinner’s first season, when it received the NCAA title.

Additionally within the Massive Ten on Friday, No. 14 Penn State is at Ohio State, AVCA No. 16 Purdue is at Michigan, Rutgers is at Maryland, Iowa is at Northwestern and Illinois is at Minnesota. 

There are two ACC matches when No. 4 Pittsburgh goes to Syracuse and Duke goes to North Carolina.

The Pac-12 exhibits No. 2 Stanford residence for UCLA, No. 6 Oregon at Oregon State, No. 11 Washington State at Washington and Colorado at Utah. The league finishes Saturday with Arizona at AVCA No. 18 Arizona State.

The lone SEC match has No. 10 Arkansas at Auburn. The SEC wraps up with 5 matches Saturday, together with AVCA No, 20 Florida at VBM No. 8 Kentucky.

The Massive 12 is off and wraps up its common season Saturday.

An NCAA bid will likely be claimed by both third-seeded Montana State or fourth-seeded Weber State — which upset No. 1 Sacramento State — within the Massive Sky.

Motion continues within the Mountain West, Massive West and Massive East tournaments.

For the entire schedule with viewing hyperlinks to each match, go to the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings or view on the backside of this story.

Mountain West

Fresno State (19-13) is within the Mountain West title match for the primary time in its historical past after upsetting Utah State (24-6). Addison Haluska led Fresno with 18 kills within the 26-24, 17-25, 25-18, 25-21 victory. She had two errors in 29 assaults to hit .552 and added an help, three digs and 5 blocks. Ella Rud had 13 kills, two assists, an ace and three digs. Jenna Legault had 12 kills and Kasey Purry had two kills and eight blocks. Fresno was 1-17 within the MWC is 2022

Utah State, which completed the Mountain West common season 17-1, had received 14 in a row. Tatum Stall led the Aggies with 14 kills, two assists, an ace, 11 digs and two blocks, one solo …

Malaya Jones had 25 kills as second-seeded Colorado State (19-11) hit .378 and swept sixth-seeded New Mexico (19-12). Jones had three errors in 44 swings to hit .50 and had an ace, 11 digs and a block within the 25-18, 25-18, 29-27 win. Karina Leber had 11 kills with one error in 13 assaults, two digs and two blocks.

Uxue Guereca had 11 kills and Kaitlynn Baissou 10 for New Mexico.

Fresno State beat CSU in 5 this season of their solely regular-season assembly.

Massive Sky

Weber State (20-9) got here away with a shocking 25-21, 23-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-7 win over Sacramento State (21-11). Dani Richins had 14 kills, 4 of her crew’s 17 aces and 6 digs. Saane Katoa had 12 kills with one error in 22 assaults to hit .500, an help and 4 blocks, one solo.

Sacramento State bought 18 kills from Bridgette Smith, who had two assists, an ace, 4 block and 4 digs …

Third-seeded Montana State (21-7) beat seventh-seeded Jap Washington (13-17) as eight gamers had kills within the 25-22, 16-25, 25-18, 28-26 victory. Kira Thomsen led with 18 kills, three assists, two aces, a block and eight digs. Jourdain Kamps added 12 kills, an help, two aces, 15 digs and three blocks, one solo. 

EWU, which shocked No. 2 Northern Colorado on its residence court docket within the quarterfinals, bought 22 kills from Sage Brustad in opposition to Montana State. She hit .347 and had 12 digs.

Within the common season, Montana State beat visiting Weber State in 5 on November 11.

TV Listings for Friday, November 24
ACC
Duke vs. North Carolina, 2 p.m., ACCNX
Pittsburgh vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m., ACCNX 

Massive East 
St. John’s (NY) vs. Marquette, 1:30 p.m., FloVolleyball
DePaul vs. Creighton, 4 p.m., FloVolleyball

Massive Sky 
Weber State vs. Montana State, 9 p.m., ESPN+

Massive Ten
Indiana vs. Michigan State, 1 p.m., B1G+
Nebraska vs. Wisconsin, 4 p.m., BTN
Rutgers vs. Maryland, 6 p.m., B1G+
Purdue vs. Michigan, 6:30 p.m., BTN 
Illinois vs. Minnesota, 6:30 p.m., B1G+
Penn State vs. Ohio State, 7 p.m., B1G+
Iowa vs. Northwestern, 8 p.m., B1G+ 

Massive West
UC Santa Barbara vs. Lengthy Seashore State, 7 p.m., ESPN+
Hawaii vs. Cal Poly, 10 p.m., ESPN+

Mountain West
Colorado State vs. Fresno State, 7 p.m., Mountain West Digital Community

Pac-12
Colorado vs. Utah, 5 p.m., Pac-12 Mountain 
California vs. Stanford, 10 p.m., Pac-12 Networks 
Washington State vs. Washington, 10 p.m., Pac-12 Washington
UCLA vs. USC, 10 p.m., Pac-12 Los Angeles