All hail, of all conferences, the SEC.
The league has 5 of the remaining groups within the NCAA Match spherical of 16.
That’s as a result of each Florida and Texas A&M scored upsets Saturday to affix Kentucky, Missouri and first-year member Texas within the third spherical later this week.
5 groups additionally stay from the Huge Ten — which you’d have anticipated — in Nebraska, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue and Oregon.
There are three groups from the ACC in Pittsburgh, Louisville (barely) and Stanford.
The Huge East has two in Creighton and Marquette, and the Atlantic 10 has Dayton.
Right here’s the schedule (all instances Japanese):
Thursday
At Pittsburgh (with all of the second matches beginning half-hour after the primary ends)
1 p.m. — Missouri vs. Kentucky, Oregon vs. Pitt
At Louisville
7 p.m. — Florida vs. Stanford, Purdue vs. Louisville
Friday
At Penn State
1 p.m. — Texas vs. Creighton, Marquette vs. Penn State
At Nebraska
7 p.m. — Texas A&M vs. Wisconsin, Dayton vs. Nebraska
See the up to date bracket at NCAA.com.
Saturday’s recaps observe.
And so does a victory value $150,000 on the seaside in Doha as TKN — Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss — gained the Volleyball World Professional Seashore Tour Finals, beating fellow People Terese Cannon and Meghan Kraft.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball Right this moment:
NCAA Match Saturday
Louisville (27-5) happened as shut as a No. 1 seed may come to not being round for its personal third- and fourth-round social gathering. The Cardinals beat Northern Iowa 26-28, 25-22, 23-25, 25-13, 22-20.
“The NCAA Match: survive and advance,” Louisville coach Dani Busboom Kelly stated. “You’ll want to play nice, and it’s worthwhile to have some luck, and I believed luck was on our facet just a little bit there in sport 5, however the crowd was tremendous into it, and you can really feel it the entire approach.”
Louisville famous that the 22-20 end result was the best fifth-set scored in class historical past. The skin hitters, Anna DeBeer — who had six of her kills within the fifth set together with the winner — and Charite Luper, had 19 kills every and Cara Cresse had a career-high 14 blocks, three solo. Northern Iowa, champion of the Missouri Valley Convention, ended its season 26-8 because the Panthers hit .118 and had 14 fewer kills than Louisville. It was solely the third five-set match the Panthers performed all season.
Learn the Louisville account right here and the Northern Iowa recap right here.
Kennedy Martin had a career-high 33 kills as Florida (23-7), the sixth seed within the Louisville regional, got here away with a 25-22, 21-25, 25-17, 24-26, 15-13 victory at third-seeded Kansas (25-5) of the Huge 12. Martin hit .310 after having 11 errors in 71 swings. 4 of her errors have been within the fifth set, however it was her third kill of the set that ended the match. Martin, averaging 5.58 kills per set and hitting .364 for the season, had 31 or extra kills for the fifth time this season.
Learn the Florida recap right here and the Kansas recap right here.
Texas A&M (21-7), the sixth seed within the Nebraska regional, pulled off a 25-19, 22-25, 25-15, 25-22 upset at third-seeded Arizona State (30-3) in what may need been probably the most unlikely end result of the primary two rounds. The Solar Devils had gained 18 in a row and A&M hadn’t overwhelmed a ranked since upsetting Texas in 5 on October 23. Logan Lednicky had 27 kills, hit .500, and had 11 digs and 6 blocks.
Learn the A&M recap right here and the Arizona State account right here.
Penn State (31-2) beat visiting North Carolina (23-8) of the ACC in 4 as Jess Mruzik had 21 kills, two assists, 9 digs and 4 blocks, one solo within the 25-21, 25-18, 20-25, 25-15 victory. Learn the Penn State recap right here and the UNC recap right here.
Pittsburgh (31-1) survived a tricky first set after which ousted Oklahoma (15-11) of the SEC 28-26, 25-21, 25-19 for its sixteenth win in a row. Value noting was OU’s Kari Geissberger, who had 12 kills with no errors in 21 assaults and eight blocks. Her teammates had 19 kills and 21 errors.
Learn the Pittsburgh account right here and the OU wrap-up right here.
Nebraska (31-2) made quick work of Miami (22-11) of the ACC, which completed 6-8 away from dwelling this season. 5 Huskers had six or extra kills within the 25-19, 25-14, 25-18 victory and setter Bergen Reilly had 4 with no errors in seven tries, 33 assists, six digs and a block. Learn the Nebraska story right here and the Miami recap right here.
Stanford (27-4) hit .535 and demolished visiting Loyola Marymount (25-6) of the West Coast Convention 25-17, 25-17, 25-16. Elia Rubin had 15 kills in 26 errorless swings to hit .577 and had an help, an ace, 10 digs and three blocks, one solo. Learn the Stanford account right here and the LMU story right here.
NIVC
There have been three matches Saturday as Northern Colorado defeated Georgia Southern in 5, St. John’s swept N.C. A&T and Arizona did the identical to Pacific. St. John’s performs Virginia on Sunday for a spot within the quarterfinals.
The quarterfinals start Monday with Bowling Inexperienced vs. DePaul and proceed Tuesday with Northern Colorado vs. Arkansas State and Wyoming vs. Arizona. UConn awaits the Virginia-St. John’s winner.
Click on right here for the NIVC Match Central web page.
Kloth-Nuss prime Cannon-Kraft for World title
It was an all-USA ladies’s gold-medal match Saturday as Olympians Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss beat fellow People Megan Kraft and Terese Cannon 21-19, 21-17. Kloth and Nuss not solely defended their title, however the former LSU pair break up $150,000. Cannon and Kraft, who gained NCAA titles at USC, break up $80K. Third place went to one among their former USC teammates, Tina Graudina, and Latvian associate Anastasija Samoilova.Learn the Volleyball World ladies’ story right here.
The lads’s title was gained by Norwegians Anders Mol and Christian Sorum. Learn the VW males’s account right here.