There are nonetheless non-conference matches on Tuesday’s NCAA Division I volleyball schedule, however there’s conference-opening play within the ASUN, Huge West, Mountain West and Southland.
There are a complete of 12 matches, together with unbeaten San Jose State (8-0) vs. Fresno State within the Mountain West and UC Irvine vs. Cal State Fullerton within the Huge West.
Issues get hopping Wednesday with 20 matches, together with Huge Ten openers that includes VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 3 Penn State at No. 10 Purdue and No. 7 Wisconsin at No. 16 Minnesota.
The SEC’s bought AVCA No. 20 Tennessee residence for Alabama and Georgia at Arkansas; the ACC has Miami at Florida State and No. 1 Pittsburgh (9-0) going through 1-9 UMBC; and the Huge 12 has 5 matches together with VBM No. 14 Arizona State at TCU (the final workforce out of our prime 16), No. 9 Kansas residence for UCF, and unbeaten Arizona (11-0) at AVCA No. 19 Baylor.
684,000 watched volleyball on ABC
From our man Larry Hamel:
The landmark first regular-season NCAA girls’s volleyball match televised by over-the-air ABC on Sunday afternoon had a total-average viewership of 684,000, based on the Nielsen scores. The quantity doubtless would have tracked a bit larger if the match between Nebraska and Louisville had been extra aggressive. The visiting Cornhuskers swept the Cardinals earlier than a program-record crowd of 14,126 on the spacious KFC Yum! Heart in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the positioning of the 2024 NCAA semifinals and remaining in December.
The final roughly two hours of the ABC volleyball telecast competed with NFL video games on CBS and Fox. The volleyball match led right into a first-round WNBA playoff sport between the Connecticut Solar and Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever that logged a total-average viewership of 1.84 million, based on Nielsen.
AVCA prime 25
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Pitt remained No. 1 within the newest AVCA Division I Girls’s Volleyball Ballot, getting 60 of the 61 first-place votes. The opposite went to No. 2 Nebraska, up from fifth. Stanford dropped a spot to No. 3, Penn State and No. 4, and Louisivlle dropped a notch, respectively.
Creighton jumped three spots to No. 6, Wisconsin stayed seventh and Texas stayed No. 8. Kansas is up a spot to ninth and Purdue fell 4 spots to No. 10.
Arkansas, which was twenty fifth, dropped out, and Miami is again in at No. 25.
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NCAA volleyball nationwide stat leaders
TCU’s Melanie Parra leads in kills per set (5.32), however is sixth in general kills with 202. The nationwide kills chief is Giula Cardona of Evansville (233), adopted by Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (229), Panna Ratkai of Purdue Fort Wayne (224), Alexa Edwards of Pacific (211) and Erin Jones of St. John’s (207). Cardona additionally leads in assaults per set, 14.55 and is fifth in kills per set, 4.96.
The chief in hitting share is Keondreya Granberry of Tennessee at .549, followedy by Arizona State’s Claire Jeter (.530), Nebraska’s Andi Jackson (.512), Shea Rubright of San Diego State (.500) and Khori Louis of Florida State (.490).
The NCAA blocks-per-set chief is Purdue’s Raven Colvin (2.03), adopted by Julia Haggerty of Boston School (1.95). Colvin additionally has essentially the most blocks (77), 11 solo. Mari Bell of Idaho State is tied with Haggerty with 72 blocks, however Haggery is tied with NJIT’s Ines Verala atop the nation with 17 solo blocks.
Drake’s Jada Wills leads in digs per set (6.15) and Mercer’s Brooke Phillips leads with 38 aces, 4 forward of UConn’s Emma Werkmeister, who has performed seven fewer units. Phillips’ Mercer groups additionally leads in aces (126), effectively forward of Bryant (110). Mercer is 10-3 after dropping its final two and opens SoCon play Friday at Western Carolina.
Pitt leads in workforce hitting share (.354), adopted by Penn State (.329) and Kansas (.326).
This one is a shock: Bucknell and San Jose State lead in opponent hitting share (.115). Bucknell is 10-1, 2-0 within the Patriot League, and has gained 10 in a row. San Jose State is 8-0, and, as talked about above, opens Mountain Weste play at Fresno State on Tuesday night time.
And, based on the NCAA, 21 gamers have had triple-doubles this season, 5 every by Jayln Stout of Coastal Carolina and Notre Dame’s Phyona Schrader.
The excessive for kills in a sweep is 25 by South Dakota State’s Sylvie Zgonc, the excessive in 4 units is 42 by Nina Cajic of Tennessee, and the excessive for a five-setter is 38 by Alexander of Hawai’i.
