Northern Colorado, which gained the Massive Sky regular-season by three video games, has had a troublesome go of it within the convention match.
A day after pulling off a reverse sweep over eighth-seeded Montana State, the Bears needed to go 5 once more on Thanksgiving to beat fourth-seeded Weber State. Northern Colorado, with an RPI of 66, performs third-seeded Sacramento State (RPI 112) on Friday for the Massive Sky’s automated NCAA bid. Sacramento State knocked out second-seeded Idaho State.
These have been the one two matches Thursday as we head right into a busy Friday with rather a lot on the road for lots of groups, not the least of which is within the Massive Ten the place No. 1 Nebraska goes to No. 4 Penn State.
There’s one other Seashore Professional Tour Problem occurring, this one in Nuvali, Philippines, and a handful of American pairs are within the combine.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball At this time:
NCAA volleyball Friday
The match of the day has No. 1 Nebraska (28-1, 18-0) at No. 4 Penn State (28-2, 18-1) at 5 p.m. Japanese on the Massive Ten Community. It would determine the Massive Ten title because it’s the one time these powers play this common season. Even with a loss, Nebraska is all however assured of being the No. 1 or 2 workforce within the NCAA Event. Penn State doubtless wants a victory to develop into a top-four seed.
Additionally within the Massive Ten, Purdue is at Washington, Oregon is at UCLA, Ohio State is at AVCA No. 15 Minnesota, No. 20 USC is dwelling for Iowa, Illinois is at Indiana, Northwestern is at Michigan and Maryland is at Rutgers. There are two Massive Ten matches Saturday when Nebraska goes to Maryland and Michigan State is at Wisconsin.
The ACC wraps up its common season with a flourish as Louisville tries to bounce again at Stanford, which has positioned itself to assert a top-four seed with a victory. Pittsburgh, additionally all however assured a top-four seed, is dwelling for Georgia Tech, No. 9 SMU is dwelling for NC State, Boston Faculty goes to Virginia and Notre Dame is at Cal.
The Massive 12 has six matches, together with No. 8 Arizona State dwelling for UCF, Kansas attempting to bounce again at Iowa State, Baylor at West Virginia, No. 22 TCU at Cincinnati, BYU at Kansas State and Arizona at Texas Tech. The one Saturday match has Colorado at Houston.
The one SEC match Friday has LSU at Alabama. There are 4 matches Saturday, No. 12 Texas dwelling for Ole Miss, No. 16 Florida at Georgia, No. 24 Missouri dwelling for Auburn and Texas A&M at South Carolina.
The Massive East Championship continues at Creighton with the fifth-ranked Bluejays vs. fourth-seeded DePaul and second-seeded Marquette vs. No. 6 Villanova. Creighton, No. 5 within the RPI, will be rooting for Nebraska and Stanford because it holds out hope for a top-four seed.
The Massive West semifinals have No. 1 Cal Poly vs. fourth-seeded Lengthy Seashore State and No. 2 Hawai’i vs. No. 3 UC Davis.
The Mountain West may have only one match, when top-seeded Colorado State performs fifth-seeded San Diego State. The winner performs San Jose State on Saturday. SJSU superior when Boise State forfeited.
The NCAA choice present is at 6 p.m. Japanese Sunday on ESPN when the 64-team bracket is introduced. We’ll have a narrative shortly after and later Sunday we’ll submit our annual Zoom with Massive Ten Community and ESPN analyst Emily Ehman and tourney individuals from across the nation, together with NCAA Division I volleyball committee chair Danielle Josetti of Marquette.
Massive Sky surprises
Prime-seeded Northern Colorado (25-6) has gained seven matches in a row. Barely.
The Bears got here away with a 25-19, 25-17, 11-25, 20-25, 17-15 victory Thursday over fourth-seeded Weber State. UNC, which swept Weber State of their solely regular-season assembly, acquired one other career-high from Gabi Placide. She had 21 kills within the reverse sweep of Montana State on Wedneday after which added 23 in opposition to Weber State. Placide, a 6-foot sophomore outdoors, hit .362 and had two assists, three blocks and 11 digs. Brynn Reines had 12 kills and 4 digs, and Alayne Tessena had 11 kills, hit .333, and had two blocks. Sam Steele had 20 digs, eight assists and 6 of her workforce’s 12 aces. Rose Moore led Weber State, which ended its sesaon 14-15, with 19 kills. She hit .410 and had an ace, two blocks and 5 digs.
Within the different semifinal, Sacramento State, taking part in on its dwelling ground, swept Idaho State, a workforce it misplaced to twice within the common season, each occasions in 4 units. 25-19, 25-15, 25-23. Sacramento State (20-11), acquired 17 kills from Bridgette Smith, who hit .417 and had two of the Hornets’ 13 aces and 10 digs. Smith, a 5-10 senior outdoors, is twenty fourth within the NCAA in complete kills with 470. Ashlynn Archer had 9 kills with one error in 18 assaults to hit .444 and had 4 blocks. Kate Doorn had 5 aces, six digs and 23 assists. Idaho State ended its season 21-9.
Within the common season, Northern Colorado gained in 5 at Sacramento State on October 12 however acquired swept by the Hornets at dwelling on November 7.Â
Seashore Professional Tour Nuvali Problem
4 USA males’s pairs have been within the qualifier and simply Theo Brunner and Taylor Crabb acquired by way of as Zephyr Drew and Charlie Siragusa, Wyatt Harrison and Jake Urritia and Mark Bucknam and Ryan Ierna went an extended strategy to take a first-round defeat and head out.
Brunner and Crabb joined Chaim Schalk and James Shaw in the primary draw and each pairs went 1-1 in pool play, sufficient to get into the winners bracket.
On the ladies’s aspect, 4 USA pairs have been into the winners bracket. Piper Ferch and Madison Shields and Madelyne Anderson and Brook Bauer have been within the first spherical, and Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez and Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg awaited second-round opponents.Â
Alaina Chacon and Molly Phillips and Carly Kan and Devanne Sours each acquired by way of the qualifier however then went 0-2 in pool play. Savvy Simo and Abby Van Winkle misplaced out within the qualifier.