NCAA Ladies
October 16, 2024
SMU, coming off its upset of No. 1 Pittsburgh, continues its gauntlet of an ACC schedule by enjoying host to Stanford on Wednesday.
SMU is one in all a handful of ranked NCAA Division I groups in motion on a day with simply 17 matches.
This all-NCAA version of Volleyball In the present day consists of Tuesday’s outcomes and information that Hawai’i is leaving the Massive West for the Mountain West.
NCAA volleyball report
WEDNESDAY: SMU (13-4, 5-1), which moved as much as No. 9 on this week’s VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, is coming off back-to-back matches with Pitt and now entertains No. 5 Stanford (13-2, 5-1). It’s their first ACC assembly as new members of the convention. Within the different ACC match, AVCA No. 17 Georgia Tech (11-4, 3-3) is residence for Clemson (8-9, 0-6), which is tied with Syracuse for final place. Idle Louisville (14-2, 6-0) is the one staff left unbeaten in ACC play.
The SEC’s two matches have No. 16 Kentucky (9-7, 2-3) at Tennessee (9-6, 2-3) and AVCA No. 25 Auburn (14-2, 4-1) at Alabama (9-7, 1-4).
There are two Massive Ten matches when Indiana (9-7, 2-4) goes to Illinois (11-5, 3-3) and Iowa (9-9, 3-3) is at Northwestern (3-11, 1-5).
The Massive 12 has 5 matches. No. 13 Arizona State (16-2, 5-1) is residence for Houston (8-7, 3-2), No. 18 TCU (12-4, 4-2) is at Texas Tech (9-8, 1-4), No. 24 BYU (10-6, 3-3) is at Iowa State (8-7, 2-2), Colorado (9-8, 2-3) is at Arizona (12-4, 1-4) and UCF (8-6, 1-4) goes to West Virginia (6-11, 0-6).
The highest two groups within the American Athletic Convention sq. off when Rice (11-4, 6-0) performs at South Florida (10-7, 6-0).
Winless watch: 0-19 Hampton of the CAA offers it one other strive when the Pirates play host to Norfolk State of the MEAC.
TUESDAY: There have been 5 matches, together with Nevada’s five-set Mountain West victory over visiting Utah State. Gabby McLaughlin, a 5-foot-8 freshman outdoors, led the Wolf Pack with 21 kills, an help, 9 digs and two blocks, one solo, and three of her staff’s 12 aces. Kinsley Singleton had six of these aces …
FGCU swept visiting Stetson within the ASUN behind 18 kills from Skylar English, who had no errors in 36 assaults to hit .500 and added an help, three of her staff’s 9 aces, eight digs and two blocks. It marked victory No. 250 for coach Matt Botsford …
Charleston Southern swept visiting Presbyterian for its first Massive South victory of the yr. One other Skylar, Skylar Yates, led with 12 kills, an help, three aces, six digs and two blocks, one solo … LIU of the NEC swept at Saint Peter’s of the MAAC as Bella Correia had 10 kills with one error in 21 assaults, 4 digs and two blocks … and Japanese Illinois held off visiting SIUE in 4 of their Ohio Valley Convention match as Future Walker had 20 kills, an help, an ace, two blocks and 12 digs. Laura Paniagua had 22 digs, an help and an ace and Eire Hieb had seven blocks, one solo, to go together with 10 kills whereas hitting .353.
NCAA volleyball stat leaders
Here’s a random take a look at the numbers.
Arissa Smith of Mississippi State leads the nation in hitting share (.497), forward of Tennessee’s Keondreya Granberry (.487) and San Diego State’s Shea Rubright (.487).
TCU’s Melanie Parra leads in kills per set (5.22), adopted by Evansville’s Guila Cardona (5.17) and Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (4.98). Cardona, nonetheless, leads in whole kills with 362, adopted by Binghamton’s Tsvetelina Ilieva (352) and Alexander (324).
Boston Faculty’s Juia Haggerty has an enormous lead in blocks per set (2.06), adopted by Purdue’s Raven Colvin (1.71) and Marianna Singletary of Texas (1.62). Haggerty additionally leads in whole blocks (130, 27 solo). Western Kentucky’s Izzy Van De Wiele is subsequent with 100, 14 solo, and Colvin is third at 106, 17 solo.
Drake’s Jada Willis leads in digs per set (6.60), adopted by Valparaiso” Emma Hickey (5.93) and Georgia Southern’s Ashlyn Lovett (5.76). Hickey has essentially the most digs (439), Wills is subsequent (429) and Oakland’s Emily Wichmann is third (383).
Maryland’s Samantha Schnitta leads with 53 aces, adopted by Mercer’s Brooke Phillips (49) and Missouri’s Jordan Iliff and FDU’s Hannah Schmidt (46 every).
A fast run by means of staff stats exhibits Pittsburgh main in hitting share (.343), Penn State in kills per set (14.88), Idaho State in blocks per set (3.14) and Saint Francis in aces per set (2.66).
Essentially the most kills in a match this season had been 42 by Nina Cajic, who did in a four-set win for Tennessee in opposition to Western Michigan. Alexander of Hawai’i had 38 in a five-set win over Texas State. Essentially the most kills in a sweep had been 25, by Binghamton’s Ilieva in opposition to New Hampshire and South Dakota State’s Sylvie Zgonc in opposition to Florida A&M.
The only-match blocks chief is Cal’s Ellie Hamm, who had 17, three solo, in a five-set win over Syracuse. Marci Bell of Idaho State had 14, two solo, in a four-set win over CSUN, and essentially the most in a sweep was by Minnesota’s Phoebe Woleye, who had 14, one solo, in a win over Maryland.
Hawai’i headed to Mountain West
Hawai’i’ll go away the Massive West in 2026 to turn out to be a full member of the Mountain West. Hawaii has been an MWC football-only member since 2012.
As Spectrum Information reported, “It’s to be decided what occurs to 4 UH sports activities the Mountain West doesn’t sponsor: males’s volleyball, girls’s water polo, seashore volleyball and males’s swimming and diving. If UH can’t stay within the Massive West as an affiliate member in these sports activities at a value of $25,000 per sport per yr, it can look to position them within the Mountain Pacific Sports activities Federation, (Hawai’i athletic director Craig) Angelos mentioned.”