NCAA Ladies
November 2, 2024
What a Friday in NCAA Division I volleyball:
— No. 2 Nebraska not solely received 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 received 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 finished 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 occasions this season, has 518 kills, properly forward of Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (437 kills), who had 19 Friday in a sweep of UC Santa Barbara.
UC Riverside received its Huge 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 Huge 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 As we speak:
NCAA volleyball Saturday
There’s one ACC match when No. 4 Louisville goes to Notre Dame, a crew it swept this previous Wednesday.
Within the Huge 12, No. 8 Kansas is dwelling for West Virginia. No. 13 Arizona State goes to No. 22 Utah, No. 23 BYU is dwelling for Arizona and UCF goes to Texas Tech.
No. 12 Oregon is dwelling for UCLA within the Huge 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 received 19 in a row, performs host to second-place Stephen F. Austin, which trails the Lions by a sport.
The one unbeaten crew, 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.
The very 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 Huge 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 received 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 powerful 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 Huge 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 received 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 received in 4 at Georgia and Texas A&M beat visiting Alabama in 4 …
Fifth-ranked Creighton received its thirteenth in a row and improved to 20-2, 11-0 within the Huge 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 received in a reverse sweep at Ohio and BGSU received 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 aside 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 at least one sport of Yale by beating the Bulldogs in 4 on their dwelling court docket 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 Huge 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 Mild 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 crew) 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, Staff Kingdon Rishel beat De La Cruz 77-66 within the first match earlier than Staff Abercrombie received 75-64 over Staff (Dani) Drews.
Kingdon Rishel received 27-25, 25-23, 25-18 and he or she 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 received 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.
