Texas A&M got here away with an enormous upset victory Wednesday night time at VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 7 Texas on an evening when the opposite 5 ranked groups in motion all gained.
There was one other reverse sweep when Howard of the MEAC did it to visiting UMBC of America East.
And Thursday’s schedule consists of fairly a couple of vital convention matches on this all-NCAA version of Volleyball Right this moment:
NCAA volleyball Thursday
The three Massive Ten matches embrace a ranked workforce as No. 3 Penn State, which has gained 10 in a row, makes its first L.A. journey within the B1G; No. 8 Wisconsin, which has gained seven in a row, is at Indiana; and No. 14 USC is house for Michigan State.
There are three Massive 12 matches. No. 12 Arizona State performs at Arizona, No. 21 Utah is at Kansas State and Texas Tech goes to Cincinnati.
Southland Convention-leader Southeastern Louisiana, driving a 17-match successful streak, goes to Houston Christian.
UT Arlington, which has gained 9 in a row and holds a two-game lead within the WAC, goes to Seattle U. Second-place Grand Canyon, which misplaced to UTA final week, is house for third-place Utah Valley.
The Massive West has 5 matches, together with first-place UC Davis, which holds a one-game lead on Cal Poly, Lengthy Seashore State and Hawai’i, at UC Irvine. Cal Poly performs at Lengthy Seashore.
Lindenwood, the shock chief within the Ohio Valley Convention, is house for Tennessee State, whereas second-place Southeast Missouri, two video games again within the win column, is house for Jap Illinois.
League-leading and unbeaten South Dakota State is off The Summit League, however Omaha, a recreation again, goes to North Dakota.
South Alabama, which tops the Solar Belt, is house for Louisiana. Arkansas State, two video games again within the win column, entertains Troy.
Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine are tied for the WCC lead, a recreation up within the loss column on Washington State. WSU is off, whereas LMU is at Portland and Pepperdine goes to San Francisco. San Francisco is a recreation off the lead, tied with San Diego, which works to Pacific.
Winless watch: In the one CAA match, 0-22 Hampton performs host to the Preventing Camels of Campbell.
NCAA volleyball Wednesday
Texas A&M (14-4, 5-3) battled to a 25-27, 25-14, 23-25, 25-21, 18-16 at Texas (12-4, 7-1), which nonetheless holds a one-game lead within the SEC standings win column over Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri. The Aggies beat Texas for the primary time since 2010 as Logan Lednicky had 23 kills, 4 digs and 4 blocks. Emily Hellmuth had 15 kills, 9 digs and a solo block, and Ifenna Cos-Okpalla had 10 kills, hit .364, and had seven blocks, one solo. Maddie Waak had 37 assists, three aces and 10 digs. Her workforce hit .199. Texas, which had gained 9 in a row, hit .188. Madi Skinner led with 22 kills, hitting .415, and had an ace, two digs and two blocks. Reagan Rutherford had 13 kills, hit .375, and had a dig and 4 blocks, two solo. Their teammates mixed for 28 kills and 17 errors. Texas, in its first 12 months within the SEC, had gained 79 convention house matches in Gregory Fitness center, successful its last 76 house Massive 12 matches via 2023, then their first three within the SEC … Additionally within the SEC, Oklahoma (9-7, 3-5) swept visiting Alabama (10-9, 2-6) and Mississippi State (8-8, 2-5) beat visiting Ole Miss (13-6, 3-4) in 4 as 4 Bulldogs had 12 or extra kills, 19 by Karli Schmidt …
There have been two matches within the ACC. Sixth-ranked Stanford (15-3, 7-2) hit .352 and gained 25-15, 25-17, 25-14 at Cal (10-11, 2-7). Elia Rubin had 11 kills, an help, eight digs and 4 blocks, and Ipart Kurt had 10 kills with one error in 16 assaults to hit .563 and had an help and eight digs. Taylor Yu had 5 of Stanford’s eight aces. Cal hit .080 … Virginia (16-4, 6-3) gained in 5 at Syracuse (12-9, 0-9), which opened the season with 12 victories and hasn’t gained since ACC play started. Virginia, successful at Syracuse for the primary time since 1992, has six league wins for the primary time since 2015. Lauryn Bowie led with 19 kills, three digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Elayna Dupery had 14 kills, three aces, 4 digs and two blocks. Syracuse’s Ava Palm had 20 kills, 13 digs and three blocks, one solo …
Within the Massive 12, league-leading No. 9 Kansas (17-1, 8-0) defeated visiting Iowa State (9-9, 3-4) 25-21, 25-15, 23-25, 25-18 as Ayah Elnady had 16 kills, an ace and 18 digs. Caroline Bien had 12 kills with one error in 25 swings to hit .440 and had three assists and 14 digs, and London Davis had 11 kills, hit .333 and had two digs and three blocks. Iowa State’s Religion DeRonde had 12 kills and Amiree Hendricks-Walker had 11, hit .391, and added an help, two digs and 7 blocks, one solo. The Jayhawks constructed their first-place result in a full recreation over idle Arizona State … No. 23 Baylor (12-6, 4-3) gained 23-25, 25-16, 25-17, 25-23 at Houston (8-10, 3-5). Elise McGhee had 15 kills, an help, two aces, eight digs and two blocks … Hailey Inexperienced had 21 kills as West Virginia (8-11, 2-6) gained 25-20, 23-25, 25-17, 25-17 at Colorado (10-10, 3-5). Inexperienced hit .381 …
Tenth-ranked Purdue (16-4, 7-2) gained a hard-fought 28-26, 25-19, 27-25 sweep towards visiting Ohio State (8-11, 1-8) within the Massive Ten as Eva Hudson had 19 kills, eight digs and 4 blocks … No. 14 Minnesota (13-6, 6-3) made brief work of visiting Northwestern (4-13, 2-7) as Julia Hanson had 19 kills with one error in 34 assaults to hit .529 within the 25-18, 25-19, 25-17 victory. Hanson added 4 digs and a block. Setter Melani Shaffmaster had two kills, 35 assists, an ace, 9 digs and two blocks. Her workforce hit .351 …
St. John’s beat visiting Villanova in 5 within the Massive East as Lucrezia Lodi had 24 kills, two aces, six digs and two blocks, one solo. Villanova’s Cat Younger had 14 kills, hit .303, and had an help, 9 digs and three blocks, two solo …
Within the sweep by North Florida of the ASUN of the SWAC’s Florida A&M, Anna Butler had 15 kills, hit .429, and had two digs and three blocks … Bryant of the America East improved to 17-6 gained at Fairfield of the MAAC in 4. London Hunt had 10 kills, hit .400, and had six blocks … In Howard’s 23-25, 8-25, 25-19, 27-25, 15-13 reverse sweep — which actually appeared unlikely after the second set — of UMBC, the Bison improved to 14-5 behind 18 kills from Rya McKinnon, who had three aces, an help, 10 digs and 4 blocks. Howard has gained eight in a row. UMBC’s Mia Bilusic had 25 kills, three aces, seven digs and 5 blocks … LIU of the NEC swept Manhattan of the MAAC and Bella Correia had 11 kills, hit .563, and had 4 digs and 4 blocks … East Carolina swept Charlotte within the American Athletic and Fran McBride had 15 kills and hit .362 … Temple of the ACC gained in 4 at Rider of the MAAC as Sydney Jones had 24 kills, an help, three aces, 11 digs and a block, and Taylor Davenport had 19 kills, hit .457, and had two aces, six digs and three blocks, one solo …
And San Jose State improved to 11-3, 6-3 within the Mountain West when Utah State forfeited to the Spartans.
Cardona will get MVC honor; AVCA tabs Babcock
No arguing that Olivia Babcock had an incredible week for No. 1 Pittsburgh in sweeps of Cal and Stanford. She averaged 5.5 kills per set and hit .452 and added 1.83 blocks per set and 1.33 digs.
However Evansville’s Giulia Cardona?
The Missouri Valley Convention participant of the week averaged 7.44 kills per set, hitting .321, as Evansville beat Southern Illinois and Missouri State.
Towards the Salukis, she had 37 kills, third-highest complete in an NCAA match this season and second-highest in a five-set match. Cardona was three off the Missouri Valley Convention single-match report of 40 whereas hitting .330 to go along with 11 digs and two blocks.
Then she had 30 extra kills in a four-set win over Missouri State, hitting .310, with 11 digs, three aces and two blocks.
Cardona leads the NCAA in kills (455, 65 forward of second place) and kills per set (5.55).
