NCAA Girls
November 24, 2024
Nebraska dominated Wisconsin, sweeping the Badgers once more, to win its twenty fifth match in a row and get one step nearer to an unbeaten Huge Ten season.
Arizona State beat Colorado to clinch the Huge 12’s automated NCAA Event bid.
Rutgers snapped its 17-match shedding streak and received’t go oh-fer within the Huge Ten after successful in 4 at Northwestern.
Six groups — New Hampshire, FGCU, Charleston, Yale, Chicago State and UT Arlington — received their respective convention tournaments and the automated bids that went with them.
Sunday 16 extra groups will win convention titles and a few of them could also be very unlikely NCAA members after a rash of mid-major upsets Saturday.
There have been reverse sweeps: Florida Atlantic pulled it off in its American Athletic tourney upset of Rice, and Wyoming did it to visiting Nevada within the Mountain West by the wacky scores of 22-25, 15-25, 25-7, 25-13, 15-9.
A conference-by-conference breakdown of Saturday’s outcomes and what’s forward Sunday follows.
On the sand, Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg took silver on the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour Problem in Chennai, India, after compatriots Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez received bronze.
And the Canadian males’s national-team coach has moved on.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball At this time:
NCAA volleyball common season
Huge Ten
The large end result was second-ranked Nebraska’s 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 domination of visiting No. 6 Wisconsin. For extra on the Huskers facet of issues, click on right here, and for the Wisconsin recap, click on right here.
On the opposite finish of the B1G spectrum, Rutgers received 23-25, 25-17, 25-23, 25-23 at Northwestern to enhance to 6-23, 1-17. The Scarlet Knights have two extra probabilities to match final yr’s B1G mark of 2-18.
Tenth-ranked Purdue swept visiting No. 20 USC, No. 14 Oregon swept at Michigan,
Minnesota swept visiting Iowa, Michigan State did the identical to visiting Maryland, and UCLA received in 4 at Illinois.
The 2 Sunday matches have No. 5 Penn State — now 1.5 video games behind Nebraska — dwelling for Washington and Indiana at Ohio State.
Huge 12
Eighth-ranked Arizona State improved to 28-2, 16-1 because it clinched no less than a tie for the league title with a four-set win at Colorado. It’s the primary convention title for this system in staff historical past and the primary Huge 12 title throughout all sports activities for brand new member ASU. Learn the ASU recap right here.
There are two matches Sunday when No. 11 Kansas goes to Kansas State and No. 16 Utah is dwelling for Cincinnati.
No. 17 Baylor needed to go 5 to beat visiting Houston as Lauren Briseno had 25 digs, seven assists and two aces, No. 24 BYU swept visiting West Virginia, Arizona beat visiting Iowa State in 4 and UCF misplaced in 4 on the SEC’s Florida.
ACC
After a day without work, there are 9 matches, none pitting two of the league’s ranked groups.
Prime-ranked Pittsburgh goes to NC State, No. 3 Louisville is at Virginia Tech, No. 7 Stanford is at North Carolina, No. 9 SMU goes to Wake Forest, No. 23 Florida State is dwelling for Clemson, Notre Dame is at Virginia, Syracuse is at Boston School and Cal is at Duke.
SEC
Florida, which bought 29 kills from Kennedy Martin, was the one staff in motion Saturday when the No. 20 Gators beat visiting UCF of the Huge 12 in 4. Sunday’s slate reveals No. 14 Kentucky dwelling for Arkansas, No. 25 Missouri at Mississippi State, South Carolina at Tennessee, LSU at Texas A&M, Ole Miss at Arkansas and Auburn at Oklahoma.
Huge East
The common season wraps up Sunday with the highest two groups in motion. Fifth-ranked Creighton, which has received 19 in a row and is 17-0 within the convention, goes to Xavier. Marquette is at DePaul. They’ll be the highest two seeds within the convention event that begins Wednesday.
Huge Sky
First-place Northern Colorado ended the common season with a sweep of Jap Washington. Sacramento State beat Weber State in 5 as Bridgette Smith had 27 kills, hit .358, and had two assists, 4 aces and 17 digs. Northern Arizona swept Idaho and Idaho State swept Portland State.
The event begins Wednesday at Sacramento. Click on right here for the Huge Sky Championship web page.
Huge West
Cal Poly (21-8, 14-4) completed the common season on a six-match successful streak that left the Mustangs alone atop the standings after they received in 5 at UC Davis (18-9, 3-5). Hawai’i (19-9, 13-5) completed tied with UC Davis for second after the Rainbow Wahine misplaced their regular-season finale in 4 at UC Irvine (16-13, 10-8).
Accordingly, the league tourney that begins Wednesday at UCI pits fourth-seeded Lengthy Seaside State vs. No. 5 UC San Diego with the winner getting Cal Poly on Friday, and UC Davis vs. UCI for the fitting to play Hawai’i.
Click on right here for the Huge West Championship web page.
Mountain West
Ah, the probabilities.
The league event area is ready and Wednesday Fresno State performs San Diego State for the fitting to play top-seeded Colorado State, and Utah State performs Boise State for the fitting to play second-seeded San Jose State. However each Utah State and Boise State forfeited their matches to San Jose State this season … Hmmm.
Saturday, CSU beat Utah State in 4, Boise State swept Fresno, San Diego State swept Air Drive, UNLV beat New Mexico in 5 and Wyoming had that reverse sweep in opposition to Nevada.
Click on right here for the MWC Championship web page.
West Coast
LMU beat Gonzaga in 4 to keep up its one-game lead over Pepperdine, which received in 4 at Pacific. However San Diego dropped a recreation behind Pepperdine after shedding in 5 at San Francisco.
NCAA volleyball convention tournaments
First the finals:
America East
Second-seeded New Hampshire beat fourth-seeded UAlbany in 4. It’s UNH’s eighth America East championship however first since 2016.
ASUN
Prime-seeded FGCU received its fourth convention title in a row with a sweep of second-seeded Lipscomb. Shelby Kent had 15 kills, hit .344 and added an help, two aces and 7 digs.
CAA
School of Charleston crushed Delaware within the fifth set when it had six blocks to win its first CAA title since 2013. Emily Banitt had 20 kills, an help, an ace, a block and 11 digs within the 25-21, 22-25, 25-19, 17-25, 15-3 victory.
Ivy League
Yale received the Ivy for the third yr in a row with a 27-25, 25-23, 25-20 sweep of Princeton. Betsy Goodenow led with 14 kills and hit .520 after having one error in 25 assaults and an help, an ace, two blocks and three digs.
NEC
Prime-seeded Chicago State is within the NCAA Event for the primary time after sweeping Fairleigh Dickinson.
WAC
UT Arlington — down 14-11 within the fifth — received this system’s first convention title since 2002 after the Mavs beat Grand Canyon 20-25, 25-17, 20-25, 27-23,16-14. UTA is 29-2 and after ending the common season 16-0 within the WAC has now received 20 matches in a row.
Brianna Ford continued to steer, this time with 25 kills, an help, two aces, 5 blocks and 16 digs. GCU’s Tatum Parrott ended her super season with 25 kills, an help, an ace, 4 blocks and 9 digs.
And the tourneys nonetheless in progress:
American Athletic
There have been two upsets in Saturday’s semifinals.
Fourth-seeded Wichita State not solely knocked off the highest seed, the Shockers swept South Florida.
And sixth-seeded Florida Atlantic rallied for a 23-25, 14-25, 25-22, 25-20, 15-10 victory over No. 2 Rice. FAU’s Katelynn Robine had 20 kills with one error in 59 assaults to hit .322 and had 4 digs and 4 blocks. Rice, with an RPI of 47, holds out slim hopes for an NCAA Event at-large bid.
FAU and Wichita State play at midday Jap Sunday.
Atlantic 10
No. 14 Dayton performs third-seeded Loyola Chicago in Sunday’s last at 11 a.m. Sunday.
Dayton, which has received 22 in a row, swept fourth-seeded Davidson because the Flyers hit .437. Lexie Almodovar led with 14 kills, hitting .481 after having one error in 27 assaults to go together with an ace, two blocks and 7 digs.
Loyola beat second-seeded VCU in 4 for its eleventh win in a row.
Huge South
Sunday’s last pits top-seeded Excessive Level vs. second-seeded Winthrop at 4 p.m. Jap.
Excessive Level swept Radford and Winthrop beat Presbyterian in 4.
Convention USA
Sunday’s last has high-flying Western Kentucky, which has received 23in a row, in opposition to third-seeded NM State at 2 p.m. Jap. WKU swept Kennesaw State because the Toppers hit .507 and 5 gamers had six or extra kills. Kaylee Cox had 10 kills with no errors in 18 assaults and Kenadee Coyle had 9 kills with no errors in 10 swings and two blocks. Third-seeded NM State knocked out second-seeded UTEP in 5 set as Mari Sharp had 20 kills, hitting .378, with an help, three digs and two blocks, one solo.
Horizon League
Each underdogs received Saturday as fourth-seeded Inexperienced Bay surprised top-seeded Wright State in 5 and third-seeded Cleveland State thumped second-seeded Milwaukee in 4. They’ll play at 2 p.m. Jap.
Katie Schulz had 20 kills for Inexperienced Bay to go together with an help, 4 digs and 5 blocks.
Nia Corridor had 23 kills for Cleveland State, hitting .345 to go together with an help, an ace, three blocks and 7 digs. Emma Walker had a career-high 47 digs, three asists and an ace. Milwaukee’s Madi Malone had 30 digs, 19 kills, an help, an ace and two blocks.
MAAC
Prime-seeded Fairfield performs second-seeded Quinnipiac at 1 p.m. Jap after Fairfield swept Canisius and Quinnipiac beat Rider in 4.
Fairfield, which hit .333, bought 15 kills from Mamie Krubally, who had two errors in 25 assaults to hit .520 and added 4 blocks and 4 digs.
Quinnipiac’s Elena Giacomini had 28 kills, hit .473 and had 18 digs and three blocks.
MAC
Two underdogs superior in 5 units every.
Sunday’s 4 p.m. Jap title match pits fourth-seeded Western Michigan in opposition to third-seeded Ball State. WMU upset top-seeded Bowling Inexperienced 25-18, 21-25, 25-23, 20-25, 15-8 and Ball State knocked out second-seeded Central Michigan 25-19, 25-16, 21-25, 21-25, 15-9.
WMU had 4 gamers with 11 or extra kills, 17 by Madison Merz, who hit .519 and had 5 digs and 4 blocks. Andelyn Simkins had 30 digs and two aces.
Ball State’s Carson Tyler had 21 kills, hit .333 and had three assists, an ace, three blocks and 9 digs.
MEAC
Prime-seeded Howard performs third-seeded Delaware State at 8:30 p.m. Jap Sunday on ESPNU.
Howard beat fifth-seeded Maryland Jap Shore in 4 and Delaware State knocked out second-seeded Coppin State.
Missouri Valley
Motion continues with fourth-seeded Ilinois State vs. No. 8 Missouri State and third-seeded UIC vs. No. 6 Valparaiso. Missouri State swept fifth-seeded Bradley and Valpo beat seventh-seeded Murray State in 4.
Ohio Valley
The event begins with 4 matches Sunday. Click on right here for the OVC Championship web page.
Patriot League
Sunday’s 2 p.m. last has top-seeded Colgate entertaining fourth-seeded Military West Level.
Colgate superior Friday with a four-set win over Lehigh, whereas Military knocked off second-seeded Bucknell in 5.
SWAC
Sunday’s 2:30 p.m. Jap last between top-seeded Florida A&M and second-seeded Jackson State is on ESPNU.
FAMU swept Bethune-Cookman within the semifinals and JSU beat Prairie View in 4.
SoCon
The highest two seeds face off a 4 p.m. Jap when No. 1 Mercer performs No. 2 Wofford.
Mercer swept The Citadel and Wofford bought previous ETSU in 4.
Wofford’s Bri Mahoney had 17 kills, hit .304, and had two aces, 13 digs and 5 blocks, 4 solo.
Southland
Southeastern Louisiana, using the nation’s longest successful streak at 26, performs Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 4 p.m. Jap.
SLU beat UIW in 4 as Cicily Hidalgo had 19 kills, an ace, 11 digs and two blocks, one solo.
Second-seeded TAMUCC beat third-seeded Stephen F. Austin in 4 behind 23 kills from Kyndal Payne, who hit .327 and had 18 digs and two solo blocks.
Summit League
The event begins Sunday with Denver vs. North Dakota State and Kansas Metropolis performs South Dakota.
Solar Belt
The 4 p.m. Jap first serve is between Arkansas State, which received the East, and Texas State, which completed second within the West.
ASU swept Georgia Southern within the semifinals as 5 gamers had six or extra kills, 12 by Katilin Whitlock, who had one error in 31 assaults, 15 digs and two blocks. Georgia Southern’s Jillian Grey had 24 kills, hit .435, and had an help, two aces, a block and 5 digs.
Texas State swept App State as setter Ryann Torres had three kills in six errorless makes an attempt, 30 assists, three blocks and 6 digs.
Harward, Deberg get silver in India
The pair of Harward, who received nationwide championships at USC, and Deberg, the previous Missouri and LSU indoor standout who completed her school profession taking part in seaside at LSU, misplaced to Ukrainians Maryna Hladun and Tetiana Lazarenko within the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour Problem title match in Chennai, India.
The 23-21, 21-17 end result earned the winners $10,000, whereas Harward and Deberg took dwelling $8,000..
Within the match for third place, People Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez defeated Monika Paulikiene and Aine Raupelyte of Lithuania 21-11, 20-22, 15-8. They earned $7,000. Two different USA pairs made into elimination play. The staff of Madelyne Anderson and Brook Bauer ($4,000) knocked Savvy Simo and Abby Van Winkle ($3,000) from the spherical of 16, and so they in flip had been crushed within the quarterfinals by Harward and Deberg.
Shaw’s husband, James, and companion Chailm Schalk had been eradicated within the quarterfinals. They took dwelling $4,000. Cody Caldwell and Evan Cory additionally made it by means of pool play however misplaced within the second spherical of one-and-done and earned $3,000.
Canada wants a national-team males’s coach
Volleyball Canada introduced that Tuomas Sammelvuo has left his submit as head coach of the senior males’s program.
Sammelvuo took the job in 2022 and Canada certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics by coming second in its pool on the qualification event in 2023. Canada completed tenth of 12 on the Olympics.
