“You’re doin’ fantastic, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma, O.Okay.!”
Oklahoma, the SEC volleyball staff, not the topic of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is certainly doing fantastic.
The Sooners, who’ve been shut so many occasions this season, got here away with a 25-21, 25-27, 19-25, 25-17, 15-9 victory at No. 9 Texas on Sunday behind a monster effort by Alexis Shelton. Reeling Texas, in the meantime, misplaced for the third time in a row, every at dwelling and every in 5 units.
That was the one upset on a busy Sunday wherein 14 ranked groups performed. The one matches that includes two of them noticed VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 6 Stanford win in 4 at No. 23 Florida State and AVCA No. 16 Georgia Tech beat No. 25 North Carolina.
Each the VBM and AVCA polls come out later Monday with, as typical, so much for the voters to think about.
That is, after all, the season of the reverse sweep, so there was one when Arkansas rallied from 0-2 at dwelling in opposition to Auburn.
Traces of the day: In Quinnipiac’s huge five-set win over MAAC-leading Fairfield, Italian reverse Elena Giacomini had 31 kills, two assists, two aces, 15 digs and three blocks, one solo.
Brown’s Mariia Sidorova had 26 kills however her staff misplaced its Ivy League match in 5 to Princeton. The Russian junior outdoors hit .373 and had two aces and 11 digs.
There was additionally the aforementioned Alexis Shelton, who had 27 kills, hit .365, and had two assists, 15 digs and 5 blocks, two solo, in opposition to Texas.
Delaware State misplaced its MEAC match in 5 at Norfolk State, however Gerren Tomlin had 25 kills, hit .354 and had two assists, 4 aces, 11 digs and two blocks.
Aniya Madkin had 25 kills for Arkansas in that SEC win over Auburn to go together with 4 digs and two blocks.
There are 4 matches Monday, together with one of many hottest groups within the nation, UT Arlington, dwelling for Abilene Christian. UTA, which has received 12 in a row, is 21-2, 11-0 within the WAC, and holds a two-game lead over Utah Tech and Grand Canyon.
Additionally Monday, Morgan State performs South Carolina within the MEAC and within the SWAC, Prairie View performs Alcorn and Texas Southern performs Southern.
Brittany Abercrombie in Athletes Unlimted driver’s seat
It’s Brittany Abercrombie’s to lose. The lefty reverse has 4,405 factors because the five-week competitors involves an in depth in Mesa, Arizona, properly forward of second-place Dominican Republican veteran Bethania De La Cruz-Mejia (3,899). Morgan Hentz moved into third place (3,180) and Madi Kingdon Rishel is fourth (3,119).
At 7 p.m. Japanese Monday, Workforce (Dani) Drews performs Workforce Kingdon Rishel after which at 9:30 Workforce De La Cruz performs Workforce Abercrombie. Each matches might be seen on the FanDuel Sports activities Community and on Volleyball World TV.
In Sunday evening’s second match, Workforce Abercrombie dismantled Workforce Kingdon Rishel 75-56 as Abercrombie led all scorers with 14 kills within the 25-16, 25-23, 25-17 victory. She had one error in 39 assaults to hit .333 and had 13 digs and three blocks to all however ice the title.
Learn the recap right here.
Within the opener, Workforce De La Cruz-Mejía rolled to a 75-55 victory over Workforce Drews. De La Cruz had 10 kills with one error in 20 swings to hit .450 and had an help and two digs within the 25-16, 25-23, 25-16 victory.
Learn the first-match recap right here.
The most effective of NCAA volleyball Sunday
SEC: Kantucky (14-7, 8-2) now has a half-game lead over Missouri (16-5, 7-2), which is a sport up within the loss column on Florida (16-5, 7-3) and Texas (12-6, 7-3).
Oklahoma (10-8, 4-6), which was coming off a five-set loss to Missouri, and beforehand had misplaced in 5 to each Kentucky and Florida, beat Texas for the primary time since 2014, additionally the final time the Sooners beat a top-10 staff. Kamille Gibson had 14 kills, a dig and 5 blocks, three solo, and Kari Geissberger had 13 kills, hit .375, and had a dig and three blocks. Texas, which hit .187, received 17 kills from Madi Skinner, who had 11 errors, two aces, 11 digs and 4 blocks. Reagan Rutherford had 15 kills, hit .344, and added an help and three blocks, one solo …
No. 16 Kentucky swept at Georgia as Brooklyn DeLeye had 16 kills, hit .464, and had an help, two aces, six digs and a block. Georgia hit .088 … No. 24 Florida beat visiting Ole Miss in 4 as Kennedy Martin had 22 kills, an ace, three digs and two blocks … Mississippi State (10-8, 4-5) got here away with a shocking dominating sweep at Texas A&M (15-5, 6-4) because the Bulldogs hit .361 … South Carolina swept visiting Tennessee, LSU beat visiting Alabama in 4 as Jurnee Robinson had 23 kills, an ace, 12 digs and three blocks, one solo… and Arkansas got here again for a 23-25, 19-25, 25-23, 25-20, 15-11 reverse-sweep win over visiting Auburn in a battle of groups which have each ranked this season.
ACC: Georgia Tech (17-4, 9-3) received in 5 at North Carolina (18-3, 10-2). The Yellow Jackets had 13 aces, six by Bianca Bertolino, who led with 17 kills, three assists and 13 digs. Logan Wiley had 9 kills, hit .368, and had 4 aces, 4 digs and three blocks, one solo …
Prime-ranked Pittsburgh (21-1, 11-1) pulled again right into a first-place tie with idle Louisville by sweeping Virginia Tech. North Carolina is alone in third, a sport up on Georgia Tech, Stanford (17-4, 9-3) and SMU (17-6, 9-3). Stanford received in 4 at Florida State (16-6, 8-4) as each outdoors hitters, Ipar Kurt and Elia Rubin, had 17 kills and hit over .400 … SMU swept at Virginia because the Mustangs hit .390 … Boston Faculty swept at NC State as Julia Haggerty had 10 kills with no errors in 14 assaults, a dig and 11 blocks, one solo. Haggerty is the NCAA chief in blocks per set (1.99) and complete blocks (189, 37 solo) … Miami swept visiting Cal … Duke beat visiting Clemson in 4 as Kerry Keefe had 17 kills, hit .484, and had an ace, two digs and two blocks … Wake Forest beat visiting Syracuse in 4.
BIG TEN: Nebraska (22-1, 12-0) had no letdown after its sweep at Wisconsin and swept at Northwestern. The Huskers, who’ve received 19 in a row, received kills from eight gamers as Nebraska pulled again right into a first-place tie with idle Penn State… No. 7 Wisconsin bounced again with a sweep at Illinois (15-7, 7-5) and remained alone in third place at 16-5, 10-2. The Badgers, who hit .364, received 13 kills every from Sarah Franklin and Anna Smrek … No. 14 Minnesota (16-6, 9-3) swept at Michigan (6-7, 6-6) … No. 21 USC (16-6, 8-4) beat visiting Washington (17-5, 7-5) in 4 as 4 gamers had 10 or extra kills. The Huskies hit .061 … Ohio State (10-12, 3-8) received in 4 at Michigan State (8-15, 1-11) as Emily Londot had 17 kills, two assists, 14 digs and 4 blocks.
AROUND THE NATION: Fifth-ranked Creighton hit .400 and improved to 21-2, 12-0 within the Huge East with a sweep of visiting Villanova. Ava Martin had 13 kills, hit .478, and had an help, an ace, two digs and two blocks, and Norah Sis had 11 kills, hit .381, and had three aces, six digs and 4 blocks because the Bluejays received their 14th in a row. Marquette (17-6, 11-1) saved tempo with a sweep of visiting St. John’s as Aubrey Hamilton had 14 kills, hit .423 and had two assists and 10 digs …
There’s no stopping Dayton within the Atlantic 10, the place the No. 15 Flyers (24-1, 14-0) swept at George Mason once more. Lexie Almodovar had 17 kills, hit .385, and had an ace, 10 digs and 6 blocks, two solo as Dayton received its seventeenth in a row …
Rice and idle South Florida are tied atop the American Athletic standings, a sport up on East Carolina and Wichita State. Rice swept at UTSA as Kaitlyn Knobbe had 16 kills, hitting .481. ECU swept at UAB and Wichita State beat Tulsa in 4 as Brooklyn Leggett had 22 kills …
ASUN-leading FGCU (20-4, 10-1) received in 4 at Queens as Shelby Kent had 19 kills, 17 digs and two blocks …
4 groups — Towson, Delaware, Charleston and Hofstra — are tied atop the CAA at 11-3. Towson, which received 18 kills from Zyare Abdul-Rahim, who hit .485, swept Northeastern and Delaware did the identical to Stony Brook. N.C. A&T stayed a sport again by beating visiting Elon in 5 behind 22 kills from Hannah Howell, who had 4 aces and 9 digs …
MEAC-leading Howard improved to 18-5, 11-0 with a sweep of UMES as Dami Awojobi had 12 kills, hit .476, and added 11 digs and 4 blocks … In Colgate’s Patriot League sweep at Holy Cross, Taylor Cigna had 22 digs, 4 assists and an ace … Florida A&M improved to 21-6, 13-0 within the SWAC with a sweep at Alabama A&M … In Rider’s MAAC sweep at Marist, Kiannisha Santiago had 15 kills with one error in 22 assaults to hit .636 and added three aces, a dig and 4 blocks.
