Very similar to their indoor counterparts, the coaches of the highest NCAA seashore groups usually are not hesitant about taking part in one another. By the point the NCAA Championship comes across the first week of Might, all the very best ranked applications will possible have performed one another a number of instances.
There’s extra this week in San Luis Obispo the place No. 6 Cal Poly (21-3) is the host for the Friday-Saturday “Middle of Effort Problem” that features No. 1 UCLA (22-4), No. 2 USC (24-3), No. 4, Florida State (25-5), No. 5 TCU (23-5), No. 7 Lengthy Seashore State (20-4), No.10 LMU (21-8), and Pepperdine.
It actually rivals the sector that competed in Baton Rouge for LSU’s Demise Volley Invitational two weeks in the past that included, on the time, Nos 1-6, 10 and 17 within the AVCA Collegiate Seashore Ballot.
Cal Poly is in a pool with UCLA, FSU and LMU, whereas the opposite pool consists of USC, TCU, Lengthy Seashore and Pepperdine. Every group performs two matches per day.
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Third-ranked Stanford (22-3) is dwelling for matches Friday in opposition to Arizona and Pacific.
Eight-ranked Cal (16-10) performs two dwelling matches Friday in opposition to Sacramento State.
No. 10 LSU (16-9) has one other dwelling gathering, this time with Jacksonville, New Orleans, Louisiana-Monroe and Southeastern Louisiana.
The large gathering final week was the Pac-12 North Invitational at Alki Seashore in Seattle, Washington. Photographer Stephen Burns was there and a few of his finest photographs comply with.
UCLA went 3-0, beating Cal 4-1, sweeping Utah after which No. 17 Arizona 4-1. The Bruins then performed a few dwelling matches on Tuesday, sweeping each Lengthy Seashore State and CSUN.
USC additionally went 3-0, however was after beating now-No. 13 Arizona State and Stanford by 4-1 scores, the Trojans battled to a 3-2 victory over Cal.
Stanford went 3-1. After shedding to USC, the Cardinal beat No. 11 Washington 4-1, after which went 5-0 in opposition to Utah and Arizona.
Florida State performed at dwelling and defeated North Florida, Florida Worldwide, North Alabama, UAB and No. 20 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
TCU went 4-0 at its personal invite. The Horned Frogs swept HCU, beat No. 12 Hawai’i 3-2 and 4-1, after which beat Texas 3-2.
Click on on any photograph from the Pac-12 North Invitational to view full dimension: