If the Cornhusker State is the benchmark of faculty volleyball, then Creighton at Nebraska is the epicenter.
Search for nice scores for the Large Ten Community on Tuesday evening when No. 9 Creighton (5-0) performs at No. 5 Nebraska (5-1) within the annual battle of two of the nation’s high groups in a state the place our sport is king. Or, as we must always say, queen.
Additionally on this Volleyball At this time, the brand new AVCA Division I Girls’s Volleyball Ballot got here out Monday and the coaches recognition contest has had few weeks with a higher shakeup from the week earlier than.
Michigan State goes to get a brand new enviornment, there was a Queens & Kings of the Court docket occasion this previous weekend within the Netherlands and its subsequent competitors is in Miami on the finish of the month,
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
There are 33 matches on the schedule, none larger than Creighton at Nebraska. That is the primary time on this rivalry that each groups are ranked within the high 10. The 7 p.m. first serve can be known as by Larry Punteney and VBM contributor Emily Ehman. Not residence? Watch it on FoxSportsGo.
Nebraska has received 27 in a row at residence and is 22-0 all-time towards Creighton of the Large East. John Cook dinner is 19-0 towards Creighton and Bluejays teaching counterpart Kirsten Bernthal Sales space is 0-16 towards Nebraska. The match was performed at Nebraska final 12 months, too, and the Huskers received 25-9, 25-13, 23-25, 25-20. Nebraska received in 5 in 2002 at Creighton.
Additionally Tuesday:
No. 8 Wisconsin is residence for Milwaukee, which has performed fairly a troublesome pre-conference schedule. The Panthers (3-3), misplaced to Stanford, beat Western Illinois and Northern Illinois, misplaced to SMU and Loyola Marymount, and beat Weber State.
No. 16 Tennessee performs at Western Kentucky, No. 18 Baylor performs SMU (No. 26 within the 25-team ballot), No, 19 Minnesota faces St. Thomas, and No. 21 Florida State, down six locations within the ballot, is at North Florida.
Additionally, 6-0 East Carolina is at Campbell, two 3-2 groups play when UC Davis meets Sacramento State, Cal is at Saint Mary’s, Texas State is at Hawai’i, Jacksonville State (5-1) performs at Chattanooga (6-1), whereas on the opposite finish of the spectrum one thing’s gotta give when 0-6 Oral Roberts performs at 0-6 Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
Monday, Nicholls State swept Alcorn, Lipscomb did the identical to Nashville rival Belmont, and Washington State beat Japanese Washington in 5. Katy Ryan had 20 kills for WSU to go together with three digs and two blocks, one solo.
AVCA Division I Girls’s Volleyball Ballot
Within the week following Texas shedding twice, Nebraska shedding, and Penn State blasting Louisville, 3-0 Pittsburgh is the brand new No. 1 at 3-0.
Pitt bought 29 first-place votes, Stanford (4-0) bought 23 first-place votes and is No. 2, adopted by 5-0 Penn State, which bought six votes. Then got here Louisville (5-1), which bought a vote, adopted by No. 5 Nebraska (5-1), which bought two first-place votes. Go determine voting these final three No. 1.
Pitt had been No. 3. The Panthers, coming off three nationwide semifinals in a row, return virtually your complete group with nice additions, however have overwhelmed then-No. 10 Oregon, Lengthy Seaside State and Buffalo, hardly the schedule the opposite groups within the high six have performed. Pitt goes to No. 23 USC on Wednesday.
Stanford was No. 5, Penn State was seventh, Louisville stayed at No. 4, Nebraska dropped three spots to No. 5 and Texas fell 5 spots to sixth.
Purdue is up a spot to No. 7, Wisconsin is down two to No. 8, Creighton is as much as No. 9, and Kentucky fell a spot to tenth.
Marquette and UCLA dropped out and Miami is in at No. 20 and TCU is in at No. 25.
Click on right here for the whole ballot.
New digs for Michigan State
As reported by the Lansing State Journal:
A brand new Michigan State College sports activities enviornment would be the residence for MSU’s volleyball, gymnastics and wrestling groups, athletic director Alan Haller mentioned Saturday, a day after the Board of Trustees authorized shifting forward with the undertaking. The plan is for the world to be a 4,000- to five,500-seat venue, although Haller mentioned they’ll work to ensure it’s massive sufficient to satisfy the minimal necessities for internet hosting Large Ten championships in these sports activities. Past that, he envisions a multi-use area that may additionally host the state finals in a variety of Michigan Excessive College Athletic Affiliation sports activities, in addition to live shows and different occasions within the Lansing space.
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Hermosa Seaside picture gallery
The not-AVP Hermosa Seaside Open was this previous weekend. In case you missed it, take a look at the outcomes and a implausible picture gallery:
Queens & Kings of the Court docket Utrecht 2024
The subsequent Queens & Kings of the Court docket cease is in Miami in two weeks, however this previous weekend within the Netherlands, Alejandro Huerta of Spain and Christoph Dressler of Austria and Katja Stam of the Netherlands and Laura Ludwig of Germany have been the winners.
On this particular version of the competitors, which organizers known as “The Final Mashup,” gamers have been solely allowed to companion with somebody of a unique nationality.
Huerta and Dressler beat Latvia’s Martins Plavins and Frederick Bialoakosz of England within the males’s closing. Stam and Ludwig beat Stam’s normal companion, Raisa College, and Spain’s Daniela Alvarez, the Olympian from TCU.
Click on right here for the recap. Click on right here for details about the occasion at Miami Seaside’s Lummus Park on Ocean Drive September 27-29.