High-ranked Pittsburgh didn’t want 5 units to beat No 3 Louisville this time.
No, the Panthers received in 4 and clinched a minimum of a tie for the ACC title.
BYU, which fell out of the AVCA high 25 final week, upset No. 10 Kansas, additionally in 4.
A bunch of different groups wanted 5 on Wednesday.
Reverse sweeps on this season of reverse sweeps?
No. 6 Stanford pulled it off at No. 19 Georgia Tech.
No. 11 Purdue did it at No. 14 Oregon.
Within the Large Sky quarterfinals, top-seeded Northern Colorado averted a monumental upset to eighth-seeded Montana State when the Bears rallied from being down 0-2.
They weren’t reverse sweeps, however:
South Carolina scored one of many huge upsets of the day when the Gamecocks beat No. 16 Florida in 5 units for the second time this season;
Wisconsin, tied with Stanford within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, beat visiting Ohio State in 5;
No. 15 Utah needed to win in 5 at Iowa State;
AVCA No. 16 Baylor wanted 5 units to win at Cincinnati;
And within the Large East Championship, Villanova upset UConn in 5.
Within the Mountain West, sixth-seeded Boise State upset No. 3 Utah State, however then stated it will forfeit its semifinal match to second-seeded San Jose State on Friday. Extra on that follows.
Glad Thanksgiving as we carry you this all-NCAA version of Volleyball As we speak:
NCAA volleyball Thursday, Friday
There are two matches on Thanksgiving Day because the Large Sky continues in Sacramento with semifinals as top-seededNorthern Colorado performs fourth-seeded Weber State and second-seeded Idaho State performs No. 3 Sacramento.
Friday, the match of the day has No. 1 Nebraska (28-1, 18-0) at No. 4 Penn State (28-2, 18-1) in a match that may determine the Large Ten title. 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 crew within the NCAA Event. Penn State possible wants a victory to grow to be a top-four seed.
Additionally within the Large Ten, Purdue is at Washington, Oregon is at UCLA, Ohio State is at AVCA No. 15 Minnesota, No. 20 USC is house for Iowa, Illinois is at Indiana, Northwestern is at Michigan and Maryland is at Rutgers.
The ACC wraps up its common season with a flourish as Louisville tries to bounce again at Stanford, which has positioned itself to say a top-four seed with a victory. Pittsburgh, additionally all however assured a top-four seed, is house for Georgia Tech, No. 9 SMU is house for NC State, Boston Faculty goes to Virginia and Notre Dame is at Cal.
The Large 12 has six matches, together with No. 8 Arizona State house for UCF, Kansas making an attempt to bounce again at Iowa State, Baylor at West Virginia, No. 22 TCU at Cincinnati, BYU at Kansas State andArizona at Texas Tech,
The one SEC match Friday has LSU at Alabama.
The Large 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.
All 4 Large West seeds held type Wednesday, organising Friday’s matches between No. 1 Cal Poly vs. fourth-seeded Lengthy Seashore State and No. 2 Hawai’i vs. No. 3 UC Davis.
The Mountain West could have only one match, when top-seeded Colorado State performs fifth-seeded San Diego State. The winner performs SJSU on Saturday.
NCAA volleyball Wednesday
ACC: Pittsburgh (28-1, 18-1) beat Louisville (25-4, 17-2) within the KFC Yum! Heart, web site of subsequent month’s NCAA Championship. Oliva Babock had 23 kills, hit .311, had two aces, 5 digs and 5 blocks, one solo, within the 25-23, 18-25, 25-20, 25-16 victory. Click on right here to learn the Pitt recap and right here for the Louisville account.
Stanford received the laborious method at Georgia Tech 22-25, 20-25, 26-24, 25-18, 15-12 as Ipar Kurt had 20 kills, hit .381 and had three digs, and Sami Franci had 11 kills, hit .381, and had 11 blocks, one solo. Click on right here for the Stanford recap and right here for the story from Georgia Tech which obtained 26 kills from Tamara Otene.
SMU swept at No. 21 Florida State, No. 25 North Carolina beat visiting Virginia in 4, NC State stored itself barely within the at-large dialogue with a four-set win over visiting Miami regardless of 24 kills from Flormarie Heredia Colon, Cal swept Syracuse, Duke swept Wake Forest, Clemson received in 4 at Boston Faculty and Notre Dame beat Virginia Tech in 4.
BIG TEN: Purdue received 19-25, 22-25, 29-27, 25-23, 15-13 at Oregon as Eva Hudson had 20 of her 28 kills within the closing three units. Click on right here for the Purdue recap and right here for the Oregon story.
Wisconsin battled to a 25-23, 25-14, 21-25, 24-26, 15-12 victory over Ohio State as Sarah Franklin had 25 kills. Click on right here for the Wisconsin recap and right here for the Ohio State story.
Penn State swept at Rutgers, AVCA No. 15 Minnesota beat visiting Illinois in 4, No. 20 USC received in 4 at Washington, Indiana obtained 25 kills from Candela Alonso-Corcelles and beat visiting Michigan in 4, Michigan State beat visiting Northwestern in 4, and UCLA defeated visiting Iowa in 4 as Anna Dodson had 10 kills with no errors in 21 assaults to hit .421 and added an help, a dig and 4 blocks, one solo.
BIG 12: BYU obtained a much-needed upset victory at Kansas. Learn the BYU recap right here and the Kansas recap right here.
Baylor obtained previous Cincinnati 18-25, 25-16, 25-23, 17-25, 15-6, Utah received 19-25, 25-23, 18-25, 25-21, 15-12 at Iowa State, No. 22 TCU swept at West Virginia, Colorado swept visiting Kansas State, Arizona beat visiting UCF in 4 and Texas Tech beat visiting Houston in 4.
SEC: How about South Carolina, 16-10 general and 7-8 within the convention, and two of these league wins had been by 5 over Florida. The Gamecocks beat visiting Florida 25-20, 22-25, 26-24, 22-25, 15-13. Learn the South Carolina recap right here and the Florida account right here.
Thirteenth-ranked Kentucky received in 4 at No. 24 Missouri as Brooklyn DeLeye had 19 kills, hit .359 and had 5 of her crew’s 10 aces, 5 digs and a solo block. No. 12 Texas swept visiting Tennessee, Georgia beat Mississippi State in 4 as Bianna Muoneke and Erykah Lovett had 20 kills apiece, and Oklahoma received in 4 at Arkansas.
WEST COAST CONFERENCE: San Diego received in 4 at Pepperdine as Isabel Clark had 23 kills, 23 digs and two blocks to tug the Toreros right into a second-place tie with Pepperdine. Pepperdine’s Grace Chillingworth had a career-high 29 kills, hitting .333 to go along with an assists, an ace, a block and 6 digs. Birdie Hendrickson had 19 kills, hit .348, and had an help, a block and 13 digs.
Loyola Marymount, which has already received the title, swept Oregon State, Santa Clara swept Gonzaga, Saint Mary’s beat Portland in 4 and San Francisco received in 5 at Washington State.
BIG EAST: Fourth-seeded DePaul swept No. 5 St. John’s and sixth-seeded Villanova upset No. 3 UConn 25-23, 19-25, 24-26, 25-21, 15-13 as freshman Campbell McKinnon had 15 kills, hit .324, and had two aces, seven digs and a career-high 11 blocks. Villanova, which misplaced to UConn twice within the common season, is within the semifinals for the primary time since 2019.
BIG SKY: The highest seeds all received, however nobody labored tougher to advance than Northern Colorado with its 21-25, 22-25, 25-18, 25-21, 15-12 victory over Montana State. Gabi Placide had 20 kills, two blocks and 10 digs. The opposite three matches all went 4 as fourth-seeded Weber State obtained 21 kills from Ashley Gneiting and beat No. 5 Japanese Washington, second-seeded Idaho State beat No. 7 Northern Arizona and host No. 3 Sacramento State ousted No. 6 Portland State as Caitlin Volkmann had 22 kills, hit .395 and had an ace and 12 digs, and Bridgette Smith had 21 kills, two assists, 4 aces, three blocks and 7 digs.
BIG WEST: Third-seeded UC Davis obtained 19 kills and 4 aces from Olivia Utterback and beat sixth-seeded UC Irvine in 4 on its house ground and fourth-seeded Lengthy Seashore State beat No. 5 UC San Diego in 4 as Natalie Glenn had 19 kills, hit .485 an had an help, three block and 7 digs.
MOUNTAIN WEST: Fifth-seeed San Diego State beat fourth-seeded Fresno State in 4 and can play top-seeded Colorado State on Friday. Taylor Underwood led SDSU with 16 kills, hitting .400, and had two digs and two blocks. Addison Haluska led Fresno with 22 kills, hitting .442, and had 5 digs and 5 blocks.
Within the first semifinal, sixth-seeded Boise State knocked out third-seeded Utah State in a match between two groups that had forfeited their regular-season matches to San Jose, which might have been the Broncos’ subsequent opponent.
At 10:58 p.m. Wednesday, Boise State launched the next assertion from its athletic division:
“The choice to not proceed to play within the 2024 Mountain West Volleyball Championship match was not a simple one. Our crew overcame forfeitures to earn a spot within the match area and fought for the win over Utah State within the first spherical on Wednesday. They need to not must forgo this chance whereas ready for a extra considerate and higher system that serves all athletes.”
No matter meaning.
Boise State has three seniors whose careers have ended with a forfeit, together with senior reverse Paige Bartsch, who made the all-Mountain West first crew and who had 14 kills, an help, two aces, six digs and a block towards Utah State.
San Jose State, the Mountain West and perspective
The unhappy state of affairs within the Mountain West is extra sophisticated than it must be and unlucky. We provide two tales in your perusal, one which does a deep dive and the opposite a commentary.
This piece by ESPN.com’s Katie Barnes presents pretty much as good a take a look at what has transpired as you will get.
And this column by Sally Jenkins of The Washington Submit is properly price your time.
