Cincinnati beat a ranked workforce for the primary time since 2019 when the Bearcats gained in 5 Thursday at No. 24 BYU within the Large 12.
Fifth-ranked Penn State had one other assertion victory, this time a sweep of visiting No. 10 Purdue.
Convention play continued and among the many victors was UT Arlington, whose first-round WAC victory prolonged its successful streak to 18.
Northern Colorado gained the Large Sky regular-season title and the races tightened within the Large West and West Coast Convention.
And there have been two extra teaching casualties.
It’s all on this NCAA version of Volleyball As we speak:
NCAA volleyball Friday
There are many key regular-season matches, however we’ll begin with postseason tournaments.
Motion begins within the American Athletic, America East, Atlantic 10, Large South, Convention USA, Horizon, Ivy League, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, NEC, Southland Convention and SWAC. Included in that little bit of alphabet soup is Southeastern Louisiana of the Southland, which matches for its twenty fifth victory in a row; No. 15 Dayton, which matches for win No. 22 in a row within the A10; and Western Kentucky, which goals for its twenty second in a row in Convention USA.
Tournaments proceed within the ASUN, Patriot League, SoCon, Solar Belt and WAC.
Within the ACC, the match of the day has AVCA No. 15 Georgia Tech at No. 23 Florida State. Third-ranked Louisville is at Virginia, No. 7 Stanford is at Duke, No. 9 SMU goes to NC State, Clemson is at Miami and Cal is at North Carolina.
The SEC’s slate has No. 13 Texas at Oklahoma, No.. 25 Missouri at Ole Miss, South Carolina at Alabama, Arkansas at Tennessee and Georgia at Texas A&M.
The three Large Ten matches present Washington at Ohio State, UCLA at Indiana and Rutgers at Illinois.
The one Large 12 match has No. 22 TCU dwelling for Texas Tech.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
BIG TEN: In relation to massive matches, Penn State goes feast or famine. To wit: Penn State swept Louisville however received swept at Pittsburgh. Earlier this season it swept Purdue, Oregon and Minnesota, however received swept by Wisconsin. Chalk up one other sweep because the Nittany Lions overpowered visiting Purdue 25-20, 25-23, 25-16. Camryn Hannan led with 14 kills, two aces, a block and 4 digs. Gillian Grimes had 20 digs and 5 assists and Izzy Starck had three kills, 38 assists, 5 blocks and 10 digs. Eva Hudson led Purdue with 12 kills, 9 digs and a block.
No. 14 Oregon swept at Michigan State as Mimi Colyer had 12 kills, two assists, an ace, six digs and 7 blocks. No. 21 USC gained in 4 at Northwestern as Ally Batenhorst had 22 kills, hit .370 and had an help, an ace, seven digs and three blocks, and Adonia Faumuina had 20 kills, hit .471, and had 5 digs and three blocks. Michigan swept visiting Maryland as Valentina Vaulet had 14 kills, two assists, three aces, 9 digs and two blocks.
BIG 12: Cincinnati, which had misplaced three in a row and 4 of 5, shocked BYU on its dwelling court docket 23-25, 25-19, 25-23, 17-25, 15-13. Sydney Nolan had a career-high 22 kills — eight within the fifth set — seven digs and three blocks, and Irbe Lazda had 15 kills, hit .370, and had a dig and 4 blocks. BYU’s Claire Little had 19 kills, an ace, 11 digs and two blocks. Brielle Kemavor had 14 kills, hit .480, and had a dig and 11 blocks, one solo. BYU fell to 2-7 in five-set matches this season.
Eighth-ranked Arizona State swept visiting Iowa State as Savannah Kjolhede had 10 kills, hit .471, and had three digs and eight blocks, one solo. No. 16 Utah swept West Virginia as Kamryn Gibadlo had 14 kills, hit .462, and had two aces, 11 digs and a block. And Arizona swept at Colorado.
ASUN: The Friday semifinals are set with third-seeded Central Arkansas going through second-seeded Lipscomb and No. 1 FGCU vs. Japanese Kentucky. Central Arkansas received previous sixth-seeded North Florida in 5 as Regan Harp had 15 kills, hit .310 and had an help, an ace, 23 digs and two blocks. Lippy swept North Alabama as Courtney Jones had 18 kills, hit .382, and had 4 digs and a block, giving coach Brandon Rosenthal his four-hundredth victory on the college. EKU beat Jacksonville in 4 as Carson Ledford had 12 kills, hit .429, and had an ace and 9 blocks. And FGCU hit .532 because it swept Queens. Shelby Kent had 14 kills with no errors in 18 assaults to hit .778 and had an ace and 13 digs.
MAAC: There have been two upsets as eighth-seeded Iona swept fifth-seeded Sacred Coronary heart and seventh-seeded Merrimack defeated sixth-seeded Niagara in 5. Iona’s Grace Ehler had 12 kills with one error in 26 assaults to hit .423 and added an help and a dig. It was Iona’s first win over Sacred Coronary heart since 2008. Merrimack’s Mckenna Shotwell (all-name workforce) had 14 kills, an help, an ace, 22 digs and a block.
Friday, No. 4 Canisius performs Iona and No. 3 Rider will get Merrimack with top-seeded Fairfield and second-seeded Quinnipiac ready for Saturday’s semifinals.
SOCON: The one match noticed ninth-seeded UNC Greensboro sweep Western Carolina as Allie Candy had 12 kills, two assists, an ace, 12 digs and 4 blocks, two solo. UNCG performs top-seeded Mercer, The Citadel performs Samford, Chattanooga performs Wofford and Furman performs ETSU.
SUN BELT: Georgia State beat Troy in 5 and Coastal Carolina beat Southern Miss in 4.
It marked the tip of the road for SBC participant of the 12 months Tori Hester, who had 28 kills within the loss for Troy to go along with an ace, 17 digs and two blocks. She had 151 kills in her ultimate 5 matches.
The incomparable Jalyn Stout of Coastal Carolina had 20 kills, hitting .444, 22 assists, two aces, 14 digs and two blocks.
Friday, Texas State performs James Madison, which it beat twice final week. App State performs Georgia State, Arkansas State performs Coastal and Georgia Southern performs South Alabama.
WAC: High-seeded UT Arlington gained its 18th in a row, sweeping Abilene Christian within the first spherical of the league event. The Mavs (27-2, 17-0) received 12 kills from Brianna Ford, who hit .417 and had 4 aces, six digs and three blocks. UTA performs fifth-seeded California Baptist in a single semifinal and second-seeded Grand Canyon performs third-seeded Utah Valley within the different.
CBU swept Utah Tech as Kali Wolf had 13 kills with one error in 38 swings, an help, an ace, 5 digs and a block.
GCU swept Seattle U as Tatum Parrott had 13 kills, hit .393, and had an help, an ace, 11 digs and a block. Utah Valley ousted Southern Utah in 4 as Avery Shewell had 20 kills, hit .308, and added seven digs and three blocks.
BIG SKY: Northern Colorado (22-6, 13-2) swept Idaho to win the regular-season title with one match left. Since becoming a member of the convention in 2006, the Bears have gained seven regular-season titles and eight tournaments. Idaho State, Sacramento State and Weber State are tied for second, three video games again. Idaho State gained in 4 at Sacramento State and Weber State misplaced in 4 at Portland State, which received 23 kills and 4 aces from Makayla Lewis, who hit .340 and had an help, 14 digs and a block.
BIG WEST: Cal Poly and UC Davis each gained in 5 to get to 13-4 and transfer a half recreation up on idle Hawai’i (12-4). Cal Poly gained at UC Riverside as Tommi Stockham had 17 kills, an ace, 12 digs and three blocks. UC Davis beat visiting UC Santa Barbara as Olivia Utterback had 19 kills, three assists, 4 aces and 12 digs. Within the different league match, UC Irvine swept visiting Cal State Fullerton as Katie Smith had 15 kills, hit .433, and had three aces, 9 digs and two blocks.
MOUNTAIN WEST: The six groups are set for the event, however with one match left within the common season quite a bit might shake out. Colorado State leads at 13-4, Fresno State and Utah State are 12-5, San Jose State is 12-6, San Diego State is 10-7 and Boise State is 9-8. Within the event, the third seed performs No. 6 and the fourth seed performs No. 5 with the highest two groups ready within the semifinals. Utah State and Boise State are two of the groups which have forfeited to San Jose State within the common season, together with Boise’s match on Thursday. Colorado State swept visiting Nevada as Malaya Jones had 18 kills, hit .485, and had two assists, three aces, 5 digs and a block. Utah State swept at Wyoming and San Diego State swept visiting New Mexico as Jasmine Davis had 13 kills, hit .400 and had two aces, 16 digs and a block.
WCC: Loyola Marymount is a recreation up on the prime forward of Pepperdine and San Diego as the previous misplaced and the latter two gained. LMU (21-5, 13-2) misplaced in 5 at Pacific. Pepperdine (15-10, 12-3) swept at Saint Mary’s as Ella Piskorz had 15 kills with one error in 25 assaults and added three ace, seven digs and 5 blocks, two solo. San Diego (17-8, 12-3) swept visiting Gonzaga as Kristen Erland had 14 kills with one error in 23 swings and 5 blocks.
You may go dwelling once more
Lindsey Devine, who coached at East Tennessee State College from 2003 to 2018, returned to this system final December after three years because the coach at Alabama and season as a volunteer at Mississippi State. She took over a workforce that completed 6-23, 5-11 within the Southern Convention. This season, the Pirates, who open the SoCon Championship in opposition to Furman on Friday evening, went 18-10 and completed third within the league at 10-6.
Accordingly, Devine, one in every of our favourite Canadians, was named the SoCon coach of the 12 months on Thursday. She beforehand gained the consideration in 2016 and 2018.
Take that, Thomas Wolfe.
Mercer’s Sky Ekes (all-name workforce), a senior switch Florida State, was named the SoCon participant of the 12 months 12 months. Teammates Skylar Bumpers (all-name workforce) and Brooke Phillips, a grad switch from the artist previously referred to as IUPUI, additionally made the primary workforce. Price noting is that ETSU had no gamers on the SoCon first workforce and that Wofford libero Laney Klika made the second workforce. Her sister, Emmy Klika, is the libero for No. 1 Pittsburgh.
Teaching carousel spins at Oral Robers, Siena
Luke Ward is out at Oral Roberts after two seasons. His workforce completed 4-25, 2-14 in The Summit League. In his first 12 months, the Golden Eagles went 3-25, 1-15. ORU has been to the NCAA Match 9 instances, the final in 2006.
Siena fired Simone Asque-Favia after three seasons. The Saints went 6-24 this season, 5-13 within the MAAC.
Siena has been to the Division I NCAA Match six instances, the final in 2014.
