Our model of March Insanity has begun.
It’s now one and carried out for fairly just a few conferences. For that matter, apart from the ACC, Massive East, Massive 12, Massive Ten and SEC, only a few leagues are more likely to get a couple of workforce within the 64-team NCAA Match.
Search for a breakdown on Tuesday of each convention that begins a event this week.
This version of Volleyball Right this moment additionally features a recap of the AVCA Seashore Volleyball Nationwide Championships in Huntsville, Alabama.
However first a fast take a look at what occurred Sunday, together with a reverse sweep by No. 23 USC towards visiting No. 11 Oregon within the Massive Ten and an enormous sweep by No. 9 SMU over visiting No. 22 Florida State within the ACC.
Traces of the day: Nia Washington had 32 kills for Ole Miss in a five-set SEC victory over visiting Mississippi State, hitting .388 to go together with two assists, two aces and a solo block.
Kentucky’s Brooklyn DeLeye went off for program-record 30 kills in a four-set match because the Wildcats beat visiting Georgia within the SEC. She hit .377 to go together with eight digs.
Reverse sweeps: Along with USC, there was an enormous one within the MAAC as Canisius ralled at Siena for a victory that gave the Golden Griffins the No. 4 seed and first-round bye on this week’s convention tourney. Libero Jillian Hanna made her coach father Tom pleased with 28 digs, 5 assists and 4 aces.
And that’s a wrap on 2024 for Hampton, which completed 0-30 when the Pirates had been swept at William & Mary within the CAA. Hampton misplaced its final 21 in 2023 and can enter 2025 on a 51-match dropping streak.
There are two matches Monday, each within the SWAC, when Grambling performs Texas Southern and Southern faces Alabama State.
Later Monday, our VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot after which 900 Sq. Toes, the weekly Zoom with Emily Ehman and yours actually and we’ll be joined by Creighton coach Kirsten Bernthal Sales space.
NCAA volleyball Sunday
Begin with the ACC, the place there have been six matches and all however one resulted in a sweep. No. 1 Pittsburgh swept visiting Miami as Olivia Babcock had 20 kills, hit .531, and had an help, all the Panthers 5 aces, three digs and three blocks. Third-ranked Louisville swept visiting North Carolina as Anna DeBeer had 14 kills with one error in 28 assaults to hit .464 to go together with an ace, 4 digs and 4 blocks. SMU swept visiting FSU as Naya Shime had 11 kills, hit .381 and had an ace 4 blocks. No. 16 Georgia Tech swept visiting Boston Faculty, Notre Dame held off Duke in 4 and Clemson swept visiting Syracuse.
Pitt and Louisville stay tied for the lead at 15-1, whereas Stanford and Georgia Tech are tied for third at 13-3 …
The massive consequence within the Massive Ten was USC’s 20-25, 16-25, 25-22, 25-23, 16-14 victory over visiting Oregon. USC, which hit simply .185, acquired 18 kills from Ally Batenhorst, who had 10 errors, two assists, an ace, 10 digs and two blocks, one solo. Adonia Faumuina had 17 kills and likewise 10 errors, six digs and two blocks. Mimi Colyer led Oregon with 23 kills, hitting .315, and she or he had two aces, 13 digs and 7 blocks. USC is 5-2 in five-set matches this season. Tenth-ranked Purdue swept visiting Illinois as Eva Hudson had 18 kills, hit .333, and had seven digs and two blocks, one solo. Raina Terry had 18 kills for Illinois to go together with an help, seven digs and a block. Third-ranked Penn State gained in 4 at Maryland as Camryn Hannah had 17 kills, hit .500, and had six digs. Izzy Starck. had 4 kills with one error in 5 makes an attempt, 49 assists, two aces, 17 digs and three blocks. No. 16 Minnesota beat visiting Michigan in 4 as Julia Hanson had a season-high 24 kills, hitting .400, to go together with eight digs and 4 blocks. Washington swept visiting Northwestern and Michigan State swept at Iowa, which had 26 kills however 28 errors.
Nebraska leads the B1G at 16-0, Penn State is a recreation again at 15-1, adopted by Wisconsin (14-2) and Purdue (13-3). Oregon dropped six video games again at 11-5 …
The SEC’s No. 14 Kentucky beat visiting Georgia in 4 and Brooklyn DeLeye, as famous had 30 kills. Asia Thigpen had 11 kills, an help, 16 digs and two blocks. No. 13 Texas swept at Alabama as as Madi Skinner had 14 kills, hit .314, and had 10 digs and two blocks, one solo. LSU hit .400 and performed its greatest match of the season, sweeping visiting Arkansas 25-15, 25-14, 25-17. Angelina Lee had 9 kills with no errors in 12 assaults and two blocks, one solo. And Ole Miss defeated visiting Mississippi State in 5 as Nia Washington tied the college document for kills with 32. Cammy Nielsen had 20 digs, eight assists and an ace.
Kentucky leads the SEC at 11-2, a recreation forward of Florida and Texas, each at 10-3. Missouri is a half-game behind them at 9-3 …
The one different ranked workforce in motion Sunday was Creighton, which hit .548 because it improved to 25-2, 16-0 within the Massive East. The Bluejay gained their 18th in a row, a sweep of visiting Georgetown, which hit .063. Creighton, which clinched its eleventh Massive East regular-season title in a row, finishes the common season subsequent weekend at DePaul and Xavier. Norah Sis had 15 kills with one error to hit .636 towards Georgetown to go together with two assists, two aces, eight digs and a block …
Of notice across the nation: In the one Massive West match, UC Davis swept visiting CSU Bakersfield to climb right into a three-way tie with Cal Poly and Hawai’i. Olivia Utterback had 18 kills for UC Davis, hitting .301 with an help, two aces and 10 digs … In the one Massive 12 match, Arizona swept at West Virginia … South Florida gained the American Athletic and the tourney high seed after the Bulls (14-2) swept visiting UAB and Rice (13-3) misplaced in 5 at North Texas. USF’s Maria Clara Andrade led USF with 17 kills and hit .533 after having one error in 30 assaults to go together with two assists, an ace, 12 digs and a block. Rice performs UNT once more to open the league tourney.
AVCA Seashore Volleyball Nationwide Championships
Larry Hamel reporting:
Junior Maggie Boyd and sensational freshman Sally Perez of UCLA pulled a surprising “foolish season” upset on Sunday which may have long-term implications.
Boyd and Perez dispatched battle-hardened TCU standouts Daniela Alvarez and Tanai Moreno with businesslike precision 21-16, 21-17 within the title match of the AVCA Seashore Volleyball Nationwide Championships in Huntsville, Alabama.
The autumn AVCA event was a top-level pairs competitors that introduced collectively 64 duos that had certified via regional occasions. The 2025 NCAA-sanctioned dual-meet season begins in late February.
Thought-about the premier pair in collegiate seaside volleyball, Alvarez and Moreno returned to the powerhouse Horned Frogs program after a yr’s absence following a fifth-place end within the Paris Olympics, representing their native Spain. They had been the AVCA Nationwide Pair of the 12 months in 2023.
However Alvarez-Moreno by no means may discover a rhythm towards Boyd’s potent and correct topspin soar serve, whereas the rangy 6-foot-3 Perez was a confounding presence on the internet.
The UCLA duo acquired off to a roaring begin, opening a 10-4 cushion within the first set and Alvarez-Moreno may get no nearer than 4 factors. The TCU veterans took a 10-9 lead within the second set, however that was short-lived. A tape-snake on-two choice by Alvarez knotted the rely at 12 earlier than Boyd’s diving ace to the sideline put the Bruins up 14-12.
Crunch time belonged to Boyd and Perez. A hitting error by Alvarez and Perez’s stuff block towards Moreno constructed an 18-14 benefit and the UCLA pair sided out from there.
Moreno and Alvarez “are a tremendous workforce and we knew this could be a tough combat,” stated Boyd, a two-time AVCA first-team All-American who went 33-7 final season for the Bruins’ NCAA runner-up squad, taking part in on the No. 1 court docket with the departed Lexy Denaberg. “We knew we needed to serve aggressively to get them out of system, and we executed that basically nicely.”
Boyd-Perez swept Cal Poly’s Piper Ferch and Erin Inskeep within the semifinals. Alvarez-Moreno had not dropped a set of their earlier six matches and superior to the gold-medal match by bouncing Brooke Rockwell and Ruby Sorra of Stanford.
The victory by Boyd and Perez earned their UCLA program an entry into the principle draw of a future Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour Problem occasion. The Bruins can select which workforce they ship to the second-tier tour cease.
