NCAA Girls
November 2, 2024
What a Friday in NCAA Division I volleyball:
— No. 2 Nebraska not solely gained for the primary time since 2013 at Wisconsin, the Huskers swept the No. 7 Badgers;
— Unranked Miami, which earlier this season upset then-No. 1 Texas, was down 24-22 within the fourth, got here again to win the set 31-29 after which upset No. 6 Stanford by successful the fifth 16-14;
— Unranked Missouri gained in 5 at No. 7 Texas and is tied with the Longhorns and Kentucky atop the SEC at 7-2;
— There have been, after all, reverse sweeps on a day when most matches have been accomplished in three units. Youngstown State pulled off a reverse sweep in opposition to visiting Oakland within the Horizon League, Central Michigan did it at Ohio within the MAC and Evansville did it to visiting Illinois State within the Missouri Valley.
Traces of the day: Talking of Evansville, NCAA kills chief Giulia Cardona, the Argentinian senior who hits exterior for the Purple Aces, had 34 kills, hit .453, and had two aces, three blocks and eight digs. Cardona, who has had 30 or extra kills six instances this season, has 518 kills, effectively forward of Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (437 kills), who had 19 Friday in a sweep of UC Santa Barbara.
UC Riverside gained its Large West match in 5 at Lengthy Seashore State as Trinity Sheridan had 31 kills, hit .324, and had 10 digs and three blocks, one solo.
James Madison misplaced in 5 to Solar Belt-leading South Alabama, however Bre Reid had 28 kills, an ace, 13 digs and two blocks.
Baylor’s Elise McGhee had 24 kills — eight kills per set — in a Large 12 sweep of Colorado, hitting .475, and added eight digs and two blocks.
Duke’s Mailinh Godschall had 37 digs and three assists in a five-set ACC loss to Georgia Tech.
And Jayln Stout, the 5-foot-10 setter for Coastal Carolina, had 15 kills with one error in 34 assaults, 19 assists, an ace, 18 digs and a block within the Chanticleers’ four-set Solar Belt win over Georgia Southern.
Athletes Limitless began its final weekend of its season. The small print observe on this version of Volleyball At the moment:
NCAA volleyball Saturday
There’s one ACC match when No. 4 Louisville goes to Notre Dame, a staff it swept this previous Wednesday.
Within the Large 12, No. 8 Kansas is house for West Virginia. No. 13 Arizona State goes to No. 22 Utah, No. 23 BYU is house for Arizona and UCF goes to Texas Tech.
No. 12 Oregon is house for UCLA within the Large Ten, which additionally has No. 10 Purdue at Rutgers and Indiana at Maryland.
No. 15 Dayton tries to make it 16 in a row when the Flyers go to George Mason within the Atlantic 10.
There’s a showdown within the Southland when Southeastern Louisiana, which has gained 19 in a row, performs host to second-place Stephen F. Austin, which trails the Lions by a sport.
The one unbeaten staff, 21-0 South Dakota State, is at Kansas Metropolis in The Summit League.
And Hampton, 0-25, offers it one other shot in a CAA match at Faculty of Charleston. The Pirates have been swept at Charleston on Friday as they hit .050.
One of the best of NCAA volleyball Friday
The showcase match was Nebraska’s 25-21, 25-22, 25-19 victory at Wisconsin, which hit .094. Learn the Nebraska recap right here and the Wisconsin recap right here.
All else went as anticipated within the Large Ten as No. 3 Penn State beat visiting Iowa in 4, No. 10 Purdue swept at Maryland, No. 14 Minnesota swept at Michigan State, Illinois gained in 4 at Northwestern and Indiana did the identical at Rutgers …
Miami is 15-7 and 6-5 and difficult to determine. The Hurricanes, who, as talked about beat Texas, have losses to Ohio State, Wright State and Virginia. Nevertheless it wasn’t robust to determine Puerto Rican star Grace Lopez, who had 27 kills, hit .407 and had an help, 13 digs and 4 blocks, one solo, in opposition to Stanford. Additionally within the ACC, No. 1 Pittsburgh hit .393 and swept at Virginia, No. 11 SMU swept at Virginia Tech, No. 16 Georgia Tech obtained 27 kills from Tamara Otene because it went 5 to win at Duke, No. 23 Florida State swept visiting Cal, No. 25 North Carolina beat visiting Clemson in 4, Boston Faculty swept at Wake Forest and NC State swept visiting Syracuse …
Within the Large 12, No. 18 TCU needed to go 5 to beat visiting Iowa State as Jalyn Gibson had 26 kills, No. 17 Baylor swept Colorado behind Elise McGhee’s 24 kills and Houston beat visiting Cincinnati in 4 as Kate Georgiades had 31 digs, seven assists and an ace …
Within the SEC, Missouri gained its seventh in a row to enhance to 16-5, 7-2 within the SEC, whereas dropping two-time NCAA-champion Texas to 12-5, 7-2 in its first season within the convention. Learn the Missouri recap right here and the Texas recap right here.
Additionally within the SEC, No. 16 Kentucky swept at South Carolina, Tennessee gained in 4 at Georgia and Texas A&M beat visiting Alabama in 4 …
Fifth-ranked Creighton gained its thirteenth in a row and improved to 20-2, 11-0 within the Large East because it swept visiting St. John’s, which hit .051, whereas Marquette did the identical to visiting Villanova to remain a sport again of the Bluejays … Central Michigan and Bowling Inexperienced are tied atop the MAC with a two-game lead after CMU gained in a reverse sweep at Ohio and BGSU gained in 4 at Miami. Additionally in MAC, Kent State was swept by Akron, however the Golden Flashes’ Mackenzie McGuire had 19 kills … 5 of the six Missouri Valley matches have been sweeps apart from Evansville’s comeback over Illinois State. UNI improved to 17-7, 12-0, with a sweep at Murray State …
Second-place Princeton closed the hole to 1 sport of Yale by beating the Bulldogs in 4 on their house courtroom as Kamryn Chaney had 25 kills with no errors in 42 assaults to hit .532 and added two assists, two aces, 13 digs and a block …
Austin Peay, which fired its coach final week, was so near giving interim head coach Connor Crawford a victory, however the Govs dropped to 1-22, 0-11 within the ASUN, with their twenty first loss in a row, 25-19, 25-19, 19-25, 20-25, 17-15 to visiting Japanese Kentucky … There was an upset within the Large West when UC San Diego beat visiting first-place UC Davis in 5 however the Mustangs nonetheless have a one-game lead over idle Cal Poly. Jade Gentle had 24 kills for UC Davis to go together with two assists, two aces, 13 digs and a solo block … Western Kentucky improved to 20-6, 13-0 in Convention USA, with a sweep of visiting NM State for its sixteenth win in a row … Horizon chief Wright State improved to 20-4, 12-1 because the Raiders hit .371 in a sweep of Robert Morris … In Youngstown State’s HL reverse sweep of Oakland, Nyla Setla had 25 digs, seven assists and an ace … Howard is 17-5, 0-0 within the MEAC after sweeping Delaware State …
Southeast Missouri beat Tennessee Tech in 5 to take over sole possession of first within the Ohio Valley. Nina Schuberth had 27 digs, seven assists and two aces. Little Rock beat Western Illinois in 5 within the OVC and Andrea Roman had 32 digs and 6 assists … SoCon-leading Mercer swept Chattanooga to enhance to 19-4, 9-1, as Skyler Bumpers (all-name staff) had 15 kills, hit .462, and had 5 digs and three blocks
Rishel solidifies third place in Athletes Limitless
It’s nonetheless a race between first-place Brittany Abercrombie (3,984 factors) and Bethania De La Cruz-Mejias (3,607) to win the Athletes Limitless season, however Madi Kingdon Rishel (3,068) has made it a three-player race with two matches left within the five-week season.
Friday, Group Kingdon Rishel beat De La Cruz 77-66 within the first match earlier than Group Abercrombie gained 75-64 over Group (Dani) Drews.
Kingdon Rishel gained 27-25, 25-23, 25-18 and she or he led with 21 kills, hitting .422, and had eight digs and a solo block.
Learn the first-match recap right here.
Within the second match, Abercrombie gained 25-22, 25-19, 25-23 behind 18 kills from Temi Thomas-Ailara, who hit .548 and had an help, an ace, 12 digs and a solo block. Abercrombie had 13 kills, an help, 13 digs and a solo block.
Learn the recap right here.
The AU season has two nights left when motion continues in Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday and Monday.