Loyola Chicago and Ole Miss made first-round historical past Thursday because the NCAA Division I girls’s volleyball event received underway.
Loyola, which received everybody’s consideration when it upset Dayton within the Atlantic 10 event remaining, didn’t simply upset BYU, the ffith-seeded crew within the Louisville regional, however swept the Cougars of the Huge 12 for the primary NCAA victory in program historical past.
Ole Miss, an at-large from the SEC, got here away with a five-set win over Florida State of the ACC, the No. 7 seed within the Penn State regional. It was additionally that program’s first NCAA victory.
Line of the day: Georgia Tech’s Tamara Otene had a career-high 33 kills within the Yellow Jackets’ five-set win over Tennessee, hitting .400 with an help, 15 digs and a block.
The 2 uncommon first-round upsets arrange a busy Friday with seven second-round matches — together with Loyola vs. Purdue and Ole Miss vs. Creighton — and 14 extra first-round matches.
The NIVC continued Thursday and we have now these outcomes, too, on this all-NCAA postseason version of Volleyball Immediately:
NCAA volleyball Friday
Each NCAA match can solely be seen on ESPN+. We advocate The Fifth Set whiparound present to maintain up with all that’s occurring as a result of the NCAA and ESPN refuse to begin early within the day to unfold the matches out. Click on right here to hyperlink to the schedule, which adapts to the time zone you’re in.
The highest 4 seeds get underway when Pittsburgh performs Morehead State, Nebraska performs Florida A&M, Penn State performs Delaware State and Louisville performs Chicago State.
The No. 2 seeds present Creighton vs. Ole Miss, Wisconsin vs. Georgia Tech, SMU vs. Missouri and Stanford vs. Sacramento State.
Illinois performs Northern Iowa, UTEP performs Oklahoma, NC State performs Florida, Yale performs North Carolina, South Dakota State performs Miami, Colorado State performs Texas A&M, USC performs Texas, Washington performs LMU, Colgate performs Kansas, Minnesota performs Kentucky, Dayton performs Baylor, Georgia Tech performs Wisconsin, New Hampshire performs Arizona State, TCU performs Oregon and Marquette performs Utah.
The NIVC schedule consists of second-round matches between Omaha vs. DePaul, UConn vs. East Carolina, Utah Valley vs. Wyoming and Arkansas State vs. Stephen F. Austin. First-round matches embody Weber State vs. Pacific, Northern Colorado vs. App State and Southeast Missouri State vs. Georgia Southern.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
Loyola (22-11), received its thirteenth match in a row with its victory over BYU (19-10) at Purdue. The Ramblers, who’ve dropped simply two units in the course of the run, overpowered BYU, which hit .164, 25-20, 25-21, 25-17. Learn the Loyola recap right here and the BYU recap right here.
Ole Miss (18-11) pulled off a 20-25, 25-18, 23-25, 27-25, 15-13 upset of Florida State (21-10) at Creighton. This would be the first journey to the second spherical for Ole Miss after 4 earlier tries. Payton Brgoch led the Rebels with 19 kills, hitting .500, to go together with an help and eight blocks.
Click on right here for the Ole Miss recap and right here for the Florida State story.
Virtually each different match was a sweep, however not the ACC’s Georgia Tech’s (21-9) wild five-set victory over Tennessee (15-12) of the SEC. Tamara Otene had a career-high 33 kills within the 25-18, 13-25, 32-30, 26-28, 15-12. She hit .400 and had an help, 15 digs and a block. Teammate Bianca Bertolino had 25 kills, 4 assists an ace and 15 digs. Tennessee’s Nina Cajic had 27 kills, hit .338, and had two assists, two aces, 11 digs and 6 blocks, one solo …
Two different matches went 4. Minnesota (21-1) of the Huge Ten ousted Western Kentucky (28-7) of Convention USA at Kentucky, snapping the Toppers’ 24-match successful streak … Dayton (30-2) of the Atlantic 10, which ought to have had a top-16 seed, beat the SEC’s South Carolina (16-12) in 4 at Baylor as Lexie Almodovar had 22 kills, 4 aces, 13 digs and a block. South Carolina’s Riley Whitesides had 22 kills, an ace, eight digs and a block …
The sweeps winners: USC over UT Arlington, Missouri over Texas State, Purdue over Western Michigan, Marquette over FGCU, TCU over Hawai’i, Texas over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Kentucky over Cleveland State, Creighton over South Dakota, SMU over Wichita State, Wisconsin over Fairfield, Baylor over Wofford, Utah over Faculty of Charleston and Oregon over Excessive Level.
Performances of be aware: Purdue’s Eva Hudson had 21 kills with one error in 44 swings to hit .455 to go together with seven digs and 5 blocks; TCU’s Melanie Parra had 24 kills, hit .302, and had an ace, seven digs and 4 blocks, one solo; Madi Skinner of Texas had 15 kills, hit .444, and had 11 digs and three blocks, one solo; Kentucky’s Brooklyn DeLeye had 15 kills, hit .481, and had an help, three aces, 5 digs and a block; Wisconsin’s Anna Smrek had 14 kills with one error in 19 assaults and 5 blocks; Oregon’s Ony Ofoegbu had 12 kills with no errors in 16 assaults to hit .750 and had three digs.
NIVC Thursday
In a second-round match, Bowling Inexperienced of the MAC defeated Wright State of the Horizon League 25-18, 13-25, 25-23, 25-17 as Lauryn Hovey had 16 kills, hit .333, and had an help, a block and 7 digs. Mia Tyler had 14 kills, hit .400 and had a dig and 4 blocks, one solo …
Utah Valley swept Washington State as Avery Shewell had 12 kills with one error in 19 assaults to hit .519 to go together with two aces … Wyoming, which confirmed it may well win if it doesn’t forfeit, beat Idaho State in 4 … Arkansas State beat UTRGV in 4 as Kaitlin Whitlock had 10 kills, 18 digs and two blocks, one solo … SFA swept Jackson State … Omaha beat Lindenwood in 5 behind 19 kills by Kali Jurgenmeister, who hit .357 and had 5 blocks and a dig … Jill Pressly had 21 kills as DePaul swept Toledo, hitting .318 with an help, all 4 of her crew’s aces, two blocks and 5 digs … UConn swept Mercer … East Carolina beat Winthrop in 4 as 4 gamers had 11 kills every, together with Carlia Northcross, who had no errors in 17 swings, an ace, two digs and 6 blocks, one solo.
