High-ranked Pittsburgh (7-0) and No. 10 Kansas (8-0) are actually the one unbeaten groups within the AVCA prime 25 after the Jayhawks knocked off No. 6 and beforehand undefeated Purdue on Thursday.
Syracuse (10-0), Arizona (10-0), Washington (9-0) and Texas A&M (8-0) additionally gained Thursday.
The one different unbeaten among the many massive 4 conferences is Michigan (9-0) .
Three different undefeateds gained Thursday, UConn (10-0), South Dakota State (9-0) and San Jose State (7-0).
Most of these groups are in motion Friday and so is 9-0 Tennessee Tech, which performs twice.
On this Volleyball In the present day, we recap the highest matches and record the important thing performances, together with a career-high 22 kills by London Davis within the four-set victory by Kansas over visiting Purdue.
However the line of the day: Little question on this one, as a result of Nina Cajic had a program-record 42 kills for Tennessee in its four-set victory over Western Michigan. She had 4 errors in 76 assaults to hit .500 and had an help, 13 digs and 4 blocks, one solo.
Three different ranked groups gained — No. 14 Arizona State, No. 17 Minnesota and No. 21 USC — and No. 25 Arkansas acquired swept at Miami.
We’ve additionally acquired the CAA schedule as a result of that league begins convention play on Friday.
NCAA volleyball Friday
Issues don’t get any simpler for Purdue, which stays in Kansas to play No. 9 Creighton of the Large East. Additionally within the Large Ten, Penn State is residence for James Madison, No. 7 Wisconsin performs Troy, Minnesota performs North Dakota, USC performs UNLV, Washington faces Pepperdine and Michigan performs North Carolina. The Missouri-Illinois rivalry is all the time an excellent one, Ohio State stays in keep to play at Bowling Inexperienced and Indiana does the identical at Notre Dame.
Pittsburgh, coming off that sweep of No. 3 Penn State, highlights the remainder of the ACC schedule with a house match towards East Carolina. No. 13 Georgia Tech is at Georgia, which was ranked and remains to be receiving votes. Different in-state matches embrace Clemson residence for South Carolina, and Wake Forest residence for App State. Miami performs Texas Tech.
Within the SEC, No. 8 Texas is residence for Hawai’i of their first assembly since 2013, Tennessee performs host to Western Michigan once more, No. 16 Florida performs North Texas, LSU — off to a 7-2 star — is residence for each North Florida and San Diego, and Auburn (8-1) performs UAB.
The Large 12’s Utah, off to a 7-1 begin, performs twice at Wyoming, towards UAlbany and Coppin State. Kansas is residence for Tulsa of the American Athletic, which is 8-2. No. 14 Arizona State performs Memphis, No. 19 BYU faces Weber State and No. 23 TCU performs Denver.
Additionally Friday, Tennessee Tech performs UNC Greensboro and Marshall, UConn performs Brown, and South Dakota State performs Toledo.
Groups in search of their first victory embrace 0-11 Hampton vs. N.C. A&T; 0-10 California Baptist, which performs Cal State Fullerton; 0-8 UMBC, which performs Excessive Level; and 0-8 Marist, which performs Rhode Island.
Kansas downs Purdue
Kansas (8-0) of the Large 12 got here away with a 31-29, 21-25, 25-22, 25-23 victory over the visiting Boilermakers (8-1) of the Large Ten. London Davis had 22 kills, hit .513, and had two blocks and two digs. Ayah Elnady had 14 kills, two blocks and 7 digs, and Caroline Bien had 14 kills, an help, a solo block and 13 digs. Camryn Turner had a kill in 4 errorless tries, 59 assists, a block and a team-high 17 digs. Her staff hit .319 and had two aces and 13 serving errors.
Purdue, which hit .278, had 5 aces and 10 errors. Eva Hudson led with 17 kills and hit .302 after having one error in 53 assaults. She had an help and 11 digs. Chloe Chicoine had 16 kills, hit .333, and had two assists, an ace and 12 digs. Raven Colvin had 14 kills, hit .440 and had two aces, seven blocks and three digs. Taylor Anderson had two kills in seven errorless makes an attempt, 49 assists, an ace, 11 digs and 7 blocks.
Large nights for Vols’ Cajic, Miami
Tennessee beat visiting Western Michigan 24-26, 25-20, 29-27, 33-31 as graduate-student exterior Nina Cajic, a 6-foot switch from Subotica, Serbia by way of Towson, the place she was the 2023 CAA participant of the yr, notched 42 kills. She hit .500 and had 13 digs and 4 blocks — one solo — and an help. The earlier Tennessee report for kills was 41, set in 1988 by Stephanie Ehlers towards Washington State. Tennessee famous that she’s solely the second participant within the rally scoring period to get 40 or extra kills in a 4 set match and it’s the kills excessive for this season.
Cajic’s teammates mixed for 26 kills, 11 by Keondreya Granberry, who had one error in 15 assaults to hit .667 and had three blocks and a dig. Ashlyn King had 23 digs and 4 assists and Caroline Kerry had three kills in 5 errorless tries, 57 assists, an ace, two blocks and 10 digs. Her staff hit .323. WMU’s Keona Salesman had 12 kills, an help, a block and 4 digs …
Miami (7-2), ranked after its upset at Texas however 1-2 after, swept visiting Arkansas (8-2) as Grace Lopez had 18 kills whereas hitting .615 within the 25-23, 25-20, 25-23 victory. Lopez, who had two errors in 26 assaults, had three digs and 4 blocks. Paula Guersching had 10 kills, hit .318, and had six digs. Ariana Rodriguez had two kills in 4 errorless makes an attempt, 35 assists, 4 of her staff’s seven aces and 7 digs. Romani Thurman led Arkansas with 11 kills, 5 digs and three blocks.
Across the nation
Amongst ranked groups: Arizona State improved to 9-1 with a sweep of Prairie View because the Solar Devils hit .347. Bailey Miller had 9 kills with no errors in 14 assaults and a block … Minnesota swept Inexperienced Bay as Julia Hanson had 11 kills, hit .333, and had an help, an ace, a block and 9 digs … USC went extra time to carry off visiting Loyola Marymount 26-24, 28-26, 18-25, 33-35, 15-10 as Ally Batenhorst had 18 kills, an help, an ace, six digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Mia Tuaniga had three kills in six errorless tries, 48 assists, six blocks and 10 digs. LSU switch Paige Flickinger had 25 kills for LMU to go together with an help, a block and 13 digs …
The unbeatens: Arizona hit .361 and is 10-0 after swept North Dakota State as Jaelyn Hodge had 17 kills with one error in 33 assaults … UConn improved to 10-0 with a four-set win at New Hampshire. Emma Werkmeister had 18 kills, 4 aces, a block and 5 digs … Syracuse is 10-0 — its finest begin since 2010 — after sweeping Le Moyne. Anastasiia Nikolnikova had 10 kills with one error in 15 assaults and 7 blocks, three solo … Texas A&M acquired to 8-0 with a four-set win at Northern Iowa as Logan Lednicky had 20 kills, hit .395, and had two assists, 9 digs and 6 blocks … South Dakota State is 9-0 after sweeping Idaho State. Sydni Schetnan had 10 kills with no errors in 18 assaults … Washington is 9-0 after a four-set win at Lengthy Seaside State. Madi Endsley had 13 kills, hit .435, and had an ace and three digs, and Emoni Bush had 12 kills, hit .400 and had three blocks and 4 digs.
Price noting: UC Davis beat visiting UCLA for the primary time in program historical past. Jade Gentle had 11 kills, 10 digs and two solo blocks within the 26-24, 15-25, 25-21, 25-22 victory … Washington State beat CSUN in 5 as Katy Ryan had 23 kills, 5 digs and 7 blocks, 4 solo … LSU beat visiting Boston Faculty in 4 as Jurnee Robinson had 15 kills, three assists, eight digs and two blocks, one solo. Earlier, BC beat North Florida in 4 and Halle Schroder had 22 kills, an help, three aces, three blocks and 12 digs …
Southern Illinois beat Missouri State in 5 to enhance to 7-3 as Kelly Franklin and Annabelle Sulish had 17 kills every … Auburn improved to 8-1 with a four-set win over Samford as Lauren Dreves had 15 kills, hitting .371, to go together with two blocks and 16 digs … San Diego hit .387 in a sweep of North Florida. Haylee Stoner had 11 kills with one error in 16 swings and two blocks … Louisiana beat Jacksonville State in 5 and libero Mio Yamamoto had 29 digs, six assists and two aces … In DePaul’s sweep of Milwaukee, Jill Pressly had 14 kills with one error in 23 assaults to hit .565 and he or she had an ace, 15 digs and a block … Houston hit .374 in a sweep of Texas A&M-Commerce. Avery Shimaitis had 13 kills with one error in 17 swings to hit .7-6 … Utah Valley beat Utah State in 5 as Avery Shewell had 21 kills, an help, 4 of her staff’s six aces, eight digs and 5 blocks.
CAA begins convention play
The fourth and ultimate weekend of pre-conference play doesn’t embrace the Coastal Athletic Affiliation, which begins league competitors Friday.
There are two matches Friday when Hofstra goes to Stony Brook and N.C. A&T is at Hampton. Saturday everybody will get within the combine as Charleston is at Elon, Delaware is at Campbell, UNCW is at Northeastern, N.C. A&T goes to Hampton, William & Mary performs at Towson and Hofstra is at Stony Brook.
Defending-champion Towson got here out of the preseason 9-1 and Stony Brook is 7-2. Towson’s lone loss was in 5 to Tennessee Tech of the Ohio Valley Convention, which is 9-0. Stony Brook misplaced to unbeaten UConn and Northern Illinois.
