Volleyball At the moment: S. Dakota, UNI, Lindenwood win tourneys; Pitt at Louisville Wednesday

There have been solely three NCAA Division I volleyball matches Tuesday, however all three had main storylines.

Third-seeded South Dakota, which misplaced to South Dakota State in each of their Summit League common season conferences, knocked off the top-seeded Jackrabbits in 5 units to assert its fifth NCAA Event bid in seven years. South Dakota State, No. 30 within the unofficial RPI, will get an at-large bid.

Within the Missouri Valley, top-seeded Northern Iowa received the primary two units, misplaced the third to third-seeded UIC after which trailed 23-15 within the fourth earlier than coming away with a 25-22, 25-20, 16-25, 272-5 victory. UNI, which has received 20 matches in a row, is again within the NCAA tourney for the twentieth time and third consecutive 12 months.

And within the Ohio Valley, fourth-seeded Morehead State is headed to the NCAA Event regardless of getting swept by second-seeded Lindenwood. That’s as a result of Lindenwood, in its second 12 months in Division I, will not be eligible for NCAA play. 

Wednesday’s schedule contains the beginning of 4 tournaments, the Huge East, Huge Sky, Huge West and Mountain West. 

The matches of the day are within the ACC, the place No. 1 Pittsburgh goes No. 3 Louisville in what has change into one in all best rivalries within the school recreation, No. 6 Stanford is at No. 19 Georgia Tech and No. 9 SMU is at No. 21 Florida State.

There’s one other teaching opening, this one within the WAC.

It’s all on this NCAA version of Volleyball At the moment.

NCAA volleyball Wednesday

Final season, Pittsburgh, en path to its third NCAA nationwide semifinal in a row, pulled a reverse sweep over Louisville within the common season after which did it once more within the regional closing. Of their earlier regular-season assembly, at Pitt on October 25, Pitt received in 5 once more, 25-21, 26-28, 25-17, 22-25, 15-12. 

Pitt (27-1, 17-1), which has received 12 matches in a row, and Louisville (25-3, 17-1), which has received 9 in a row, are tied for first within the ACC. Stanford (23-4, 15-3), which has received seven in a row, and SMU (23-6, 15-3), which has received eight in a row, are tied for third.

Additionally within the ACC, along with the beforehand talked about matches of No. 6 Stanford at No. 19 Georgia Tech and No. 9 SMU at No. 21 Florida State, No. 25 North Carolina is house for Virginia, Cal is at Syracuse, Clemson is at Boston School, Miami is at NC State, 

Wake Forest is at Duke and Notre Dame is at Virginia Tech.

There are eight matches within the Huge Ten, highlighted by No. 10 Purdue at No. 14 Oregon. Fourth-ranked Penn State is at Rutgers, No. 6 Wisconsin is house for Ohio State, AVCA No. 15 Minnesota is at Illinois, No. 20 USC goes to Washington, Northwestern is at Michigan State, Michigan is at Indiana and Iowa is at UCLA.

Tenth-ranked Kansas house for BYU within the Huge 12, which additionally exhibits No. 15 Utah at Iowa State, AVCA No. 16 Baylor at Cincinnati, No. 22 TCU at West Virginia, Kansas State at Colorado, UCF at Arizona and Houston at Texas Tech. 

Within the SEC,  No. 13 Kentucky is at No. 24 Missouri, No. 12 Texas is house for Tennessee, No. 16 Florida is at South Carolina, Mississippi State is at Georgia, Oklahoma is at Arkansas and LSU is at Alabama.

The Huge East tourney begins with No. 4 DePaul vs. fifth-seeded St. John’s and third-seeded UConn vs. No. 6 Villanova. The semifinals are Friday when top-seeded Creighton and No. 2 Marquette await.

Within the Huge Sky, top-seeded Northern Colorado performs No. 8 Montana State, second-seeded Idaho State performs No. 7 Northern Arizona, host No. 3 Sacramento State faces No. 6 Portland State and No. 4 Weber State performs fifth-seeded Japanese Washington.

The Huge West at UC Irvine has fourth-seeded Lengthy Seaside State vs. No. 5 UC San Diego and third-seeded UC Davis vs. No. 5 UCI. Prime-seeded Cal Poly and second-seeded Hawai’i await in Friday’s semifinals.

And within the Mountain West, fourth-seeded Fresno State performs fifth-seeded San Diego State for the proper to play top-seeded Colorado State, and third-seeded Utah State performs sixth-seeded Boise State for the proper to play second-seeded San Jose State. However each Utah State and Boise State forfeited their matches to San Jose State this season, which creates a dilemma for the winner. If you happen to don’t know the story, click on right here for The Related Press article concerning the choose’s ruling in favor of SJSU and the Mountain West.

NCAA volleyball Tuesday

South Dakota (21-9) got here away with a 20-25, 25-18, 25-19, 16-25, 15-10 victory over South Dakota State (27-2) in The Summit League Championship in Kansas Metropolis. 

Click on right here for the South Dakota recap and right here for the South Dakota State recap.

Northern Iowa (25-7) staged an unbelievable fourth-set comeback towards UIC (23-10) to win the Missouri Valley Convention title. UNI swept each their regular-season conferences.

Click on right here for the UNI recap, and right here for the UIC story.

And Lindenwood (23-10) received the Ohio Valley Convention closing with a 25-16, 25-18, 25-15 victory over Morehead State (18-14) at Southeast Missouri State. Morehead swept each their regular-season conferences, in back-to-back matches 4 weeks in the past at Morehead. 

Click on right here for the Lindenwood recap and right here for the Morehead account.

California Baptist wants a coach

The Riverside college introduced that Branden Higa is out after 12 years.  CBU obtained off to an 0-12 (0-2 within the WAC) begin this season earlier than finally ending 8-22, 7-9 within the convention.

The fifth-seeded Lancers received their first WAC Event match ever, ousting No. 4 Utah Tech, earlier than dropping to top-seeded UT Arlington in 5 units within the semifinals.

Higa, who took this system from Division II to DI in 2018, had an total file of 212-144.