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Volleyball At this time: Wofford upsets Tennessee; AVCA Ballot: massive week for ACC

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Volleyball At this time: Wofford upsets Tennessee; AVCA Ballot: massive week for ACC
Wofford celebrates beating Tennessee/Mark Olencki photograph

Tennessee, which moved up a spot to No. 15 within the new AVCA Division I Girls’s Volleyball Ballot when it got here out Monday, then obtained upset by Wofford, which beat a ranked crew for the primary time in program historical past.

A handful of ranked groups are in motion Tuesday, together with No. 7 Wisconsin, which performs state rival Marquette, and the annual Sunshine State battle between No. 16 Florida and No. 18 Florida State.

Two undefeated groups play when 9-0 UT Arlington goes to TCU and 7-0 Washington goes to Oregon State.

1-5 keep the identical in AVCA Ballot

There was solely delicate shuffling on this week’s AVCA Ballot as the highest 5 groups — Pittsburgh (6-0), Stanford (7-0), Penn State (8-0), Louisville (7-1) and Nebraska (8-1) — stayed the identical. Pitt obtained 33 first-place votes, Stanford 24, Penn State three and Nebraska one.

Purdue (8-0), one of many 5 unbeaten groups within the high 25, moved up a spot to No, 6. Wisconsin (3-3) moved up a spot to No. 7 and Texas (3-3) dropped two notches to No. 8. 

Creighton (7-2) stayed at No. 9 and Kansas (7-0), the opposite unbeaten, moved up a spot to No. 10.

Miami, No. 20 final week, dropped out, and SMU is in at No. 22.

Click on right here for the whole AVCA high 25.

The VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot begins subsequent Monday.

Wofford knocks off Tennessee

Tennessee, down two units to at least one, rallied to power at fifth at Wofford in Spartanburg, South Carolina, however the Terriers regrouped to win the fifth. The 25-18, 25-20, 13-25, 19-25, 15-12 victory was the primary time Wofford performed host to a power-conference faculty its first win over an SEC crew since beating Georgia in 2017.

Mary Emily Morgan led Wofford (6-4) of the Southern Convention with 18 kills to go along with an help, an ace, two solo blocks and 9 digs. Bradley Brown had 14 kills with one error in 18 assaults to hit .722 and had an help, an ace and a solo block. Sarah MacLean had 13 kills with two errors in 20 assaults to hit .550 and had two digs. Maddy Frazier had two kills in as many tries, 32 assists, three aces and eight digs. Laney Klika had 20 digs and 14 assists. Wofford hit .259 and had seven aces and 11 serving errors.

Tennessee (5-3), which hit .284, additionally had seven aces and 11 errors. Nina Cajic led the Vols with 17 kills, 4 aces and 10 digs. Keondreye Granberry had 13 kills, hit .455, and had an help, two solo blocks and two digs. Paityn Chapman had 11 kills, hitting .529, with an help and two digs, and Emily Beeker had 9 kills, hit .500, and had two blocks, one solo.

Across the nation

There have been simply three different matches Monday.

Michigan State swept Jap Michigan as Akasha Anderson had 17 kills, hitting .414 with an help, an ace, 9 digs and 4 blocks.

Chicago State beat UIC, which had 34 kills and 33 errors, in 4, and Alcorn swept Tougaloo.

Large week for ACC volleyball

From the league, which deserves to beat its chest this week:

Probably the most anticipated weeks in current reminiscence inside ACC Volleyball begins Tuesday with No. 18 Florida State visiting in-state rival No. 16 Florida at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. On Wednesday, three ranked matchups await ACC groups as No. 3 Penn State visits No. 1 Pitt at 7 p.m. ET on ACCN and No. 4 Louisville travels to No. 11 Kentucky at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. At 8 p.m., No. 2 Stanford hits the highway to No. 5 Nebraska at 8 p.m. ET on Large Ten Community.

This weekend, Stanford hosts Kentucky on Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2, whereas on Sunday, Nebraska heads to Louisville at 12:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

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