The 2024 season of upsets and reverse sweeps continued Thursday when Michigan State did each.
The Spartans, winless within the Massive Ten, pulled off a reverse sweep at USC, the No. 14 group within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot.
It was a great night time for the visiting groups as the opposite 4 ranked groups in motion gained: No. 3 Penn State in 5 at UCLA, No. 8 Wisconsin at Indiana, No. 13 Arizona State at Arizona and No. 21 Utah at Kansas State.
Friday’s schedule, highlighted under, has a battle extraordinaire within the ACC when No. 1 Pittsburgh (17-1, 7-1) performs host to No. 4 Louisville (16-2, 8-0). The final time they performed, within the 2023 NCAA regional closing, Pittsburgh gained in a reverse sweep to get to the nationwide semifinals. They break up their regular-season matches, with Louisville sweeping at dwelling after which Pitt successful one other reverse sweep within the rematch at dwelling.
There have been, in fact, different reverse sweeps as Arkansas State did it to Troy within the Solar Belt and Utah Valley did it at Grand Canyon within the WAC.
Strains of the night time: They occurred in defeat.
In Fresno State’s Mountain West win over visiting Nevada, Nevada’s Gabby McLaughlin had 31 kills, hit .328, and had three aces and 10 digs.
Sam Houston gained its Convention USA match at Jacksonville State, however JSU’s Kayla Williams had 30 kills, an ace, seven digs and three blocks.
And Grand Canyon’s Tatum Parrott, in that aforementioned reverse-sweep defeat, had 29 kills, hit .309, and had an ace, 23 digs and three blocks, one solo.
Athletes Limitless begins the fourth spherical of its five-week season in Mesa, Arizona, with two matches. At 7 p.m. Japanese, Staff (Morgan) Hentz performs Staff (Bethania) De La Cruz-Mejia in a match that may be seen on the FanDuel Sports activities Community and Volleyball World TV. At 9:30 p.m., Staff (Brittany) Abercrombie performs Staff (Leketor) Member-Meneh. It may be seen on ESPN+. Click on right here for extra.
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NCAA volleyball Friday
The ACC takes middle stage with the aforementioned Louisville-at-Pitt battle. Sadly, that match gained’t be on a linear community and may solely be streamed on ACCNX.
Sixth-ranked Stanford is dwelling for Cal, No. 11 SMU is dwelling for Notre Dame, No. 17 Georgia Tech is dwelling for NC State, No. 19 Florida State is at North Carolina, Virginia Tech is at Boston School, Wake Forest is at Clemson and Miami is at Duke.
TCU, No. 16 within the VBM Ballot and No. 18 within the AVCA’s, goes to No. 23 Baylor within the Massive 12, the place No. 21 BYU is at Colorado and Houston goes to UCF.
The 4 matches within the Massive Ten present No. 2 Nebraska dwelling for Illinois, No. 12 Oregon dwelling for Maryland, Rutgers at Washington and Michigan at Iowa.
The SEC has No. 24 Florida dwelling for Tennessee, LSU at Auburn and Missouri at Arkansas.
Fifth-ranked Creighton has a Massive East at Georgetown, whereas Marquette is at Seton Corridor.
Dayton of the Atlantic 10, ranked No. 20 and driving a 12-match successful streak, goes to Fordham.
The 2 Convention USA leaders, each 10-0, go at it at UTEP when Western Kentucky visits.
There’s a key match within the ASUN when first-place FGCU goes to Lipscomb, tied with Central Arkansas a recreation again within the standings. Each groups have gained 13 in a row.
Buffalo, which holds a one-game lead within the win column within the MAC over Central Michigan and Bowling Inexperienced, goes to CMU.
The important thing match within the SoCon pits the 2 second-place groups, each a recreation again within the loss column behind Mercer, when Wofford goes to Samford.
Winless watch: 0-23 Hampton is dwelling for Campbell within the CAA. The Combating Camels, down 5-0 within the fifth, saved Hampton winless as they gained their Thursday-night match in a wild 5, 23-25, 25-18, 25-14, 29-31, 17-15. Hampton, 0-11 within the CAA, was so shut, with match factors at 14-13 and 15-14. Madison Clark had a match-high 24 kills for Hampton to go along with 4 blocks and 4 digs.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
Michigan State (8-12, 1-8), which had misplaced 9 in a row, battled to a 20-25, 22-25, 27-25, 25-20, 15-13 Massive Ten victory at USC (14-5, 6-3). Akasha Anderson not solely led the Spartans with 26 kills, however added an help, two aces, 13 digs and 5 blocks. Taylor Preston had 12 kills, three digs and two blocks. Julia Bishop had two kills, 46 assists, an ace, 12 digs and a block. Her group hit .225.
USC, which hit .262 and held a 15-10 blocks benefit, bought 23 kills from Ally Batenhorst, who hit .357 and had 4 assists, seven digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Adonia Faumuina, who had six blocks, and Jadyn Livings had 14 kills every. Livings had three aces, two blocks and 11 digs. Mia Tuaniga had 5 kills in six errorless tries, an ace, three blocks and 9 digs …
Additionally within the B1G, Penn State (19-1, 9-0) gained its eleventh in a row, 25-21, 19-25, 25-15, 19-25, 15-9 at UCLA (9-9, 3-6). Jess Mruzik led with 16 kills, two assists, 10 digs and two blocks, one solo. Camryn Hannah had 15 kills, a dig and a block, and Taylor Trammel had 11 kills with one error in 20 assaults, a dig and three blocks, one solo. Maggie Mendelson had seven kills, 5 digs, two assists, an ace and eight blocks, one solo. Setter Izzy Starck had six kills, 45 assists, 14 digs and 4 blocks. UCLA’s Grayce Olson had 20 kills, 9 digs and three blocks, and Cheridyn Leverette had 19 kills, 4 digs and a block. Audrey Pak had two kills, 55 assists, seven digs and 5 blocks … Wisconsin (14-4,8-1) swept at Indiana (9-10, 2-7) because the Badgers hit .369 and coach Kelly Sheffield bought his 306th Wisconsin victory, surpassing Pete Waite. Sarah Franklin had 15 kills, hit .314, and had two assists, 5 digs and 4 blocks, one solo …
Within the Massive 12, Arizona State (20-2, 8-1) gained 25-23, 15-25, 25-19, 15-15 at Arizona (13-6, 2-6). Geli Cyr led with 14 kills, two assists, two aces, 11 digs and a block. Claire Jeter had eight kills with one error in 14 assaults, three digs and 6 blocks, one solo. Argentina Ung had eight kills, 38 assists, three aces, 13 digs and two blocks. Arizona’s Jaelyn Hodge had 17 kills and Jordan Wilson 15 to go along with 14 digs and 4 blocks, one solo … Utah (16-3, 6-2) gained in 4 at Kansas State (6-11, 4-4) regardless of 27 kills by Ok-State’s Aliyah Carter. She hit .362 and had an help, 11 digs and a blocks. Utah’s Kamryn Gibadlo and Emrie Satuala had 12 kills every. Gibadlo hit 379 and had six digs and a block and Satuala hit .476 and had an help, two aces and two blocks … Texas Tech (10-10, 2-6) gained in 5 at Cincinnati (11-8, 2-6) …
All 4 Southland Convention matches had been sweeps, together with first-place Southeastern Louisana successful at Houston Christian. The Lions gained their 18th match in a row … UT Arlington rolled on, too, because the WAC-leading Mavs swept at Seattle U within the WAC for his or her tenth in a row …
UC Davis maintained its one-game lead within the Massive West when the Aggies gained in 4 at UC Irvine and Olivia Utterback had 20 kills, hit .500, and had two assists, an ace, 10 digs and three blocks … Cal Poly stayed a recreation again with a five-set win at Lengthy Seaside State. Breklyn Pulling had 14 kills with one error in 28 assaults to hit .464 and had 4 blocks. Elif Hurriyet had 28 digs, three assists and three aces … Additionally within the Massive West, Sydney Dunning had 23 kills and hit .457 in CSU Bakersfield’s four-set win at CSUN. Dunning additionally had an help, an ace and 13 digs … UC Santa Barbara gained in 4 at UC San Diego and Eva Travis had 22 kills, hitting .372, to go along with an ace, 5 digs and 4 blocks, one solo … Cleveland State gained its Horizon League match in 5 at Robert Morris as Liberty Torres had 21 kills and Nia Corridor had 20 …
Colorado State and Fresno State remained tied atop the Mountain West standings. CSU gained in 4 at New Mexico whereas Fresno State rallied for a 28-30, 25-15, 19-25, 29-27, 15-12 victory over visiting Nevada… Additionally within the MWC, Paige Bartsch had 23 kills for Boise State in a five-set win over visiting San Diego State …
LMU and Pepperdine each gained to stayed tied atop the WCC. LMU swept at Portland, whereas Pepperdine gained in 5 at San Francisco behind 20 kills from Grace Chillingworth, who hit .388 and had 12 digs and three blocks, one solo. Birdie Hendrickson had 18 kills, an help, 4 aces, 16 digs and 4 blocks. USF’s Maria Petkova had 19 kills, hit .314, and had 9 digs and three blocks, one solo … San Diego stayed a recreation again with a sweep at Pacific …
The 2 high groups within the Ohio Valley Convention gained. Lindenwood, which holds a two-game lead within the win column, swept visiting Tennessee State, whereas Southeast Missouri did the identical to Japanese Illinois …
Rhode Island beat visiting Saint Louis within the A10 and Megan Disu had 14 kills with one error in 24 assaults to hit .542 and had three blocks, one solo … Weber State gained its Massive Sky match with Sacramento State in 5 and Saane Munyer had six kills with one error in 10 swings and 6 blocks, one solo. Sacramento State’s Bridgette Smith had 22 kills, an ace and 11 digs … Additionally within the Massive Sky, Northern Arizona swept at Idaho and Taylor Jacobsen had 18 kills with one error in 40 assaults, 5 digs and a block … In Center Tennessee’s four-set Convention USA win over Louisiana Tech, Ariana Rhoda had 21 kills, hitting .372, to go along with six digs and three blocks … Wofford bought 13 kills every from Mary Emily Morgan and Sarah MacLean in its SoCon sweep of Chattanooga … Omaha swept at North Dakota to tug even within the win column with idle South Dakota State in The Summit League standings … South Alabama, which leads the Solar Belt, bought 16 kills every from Abryanna Cannon and Maradith O’Gorman in a sweep of visiting Louisiana. O’Gorman hit .542 and had 5 blocks, three solo … In Utah Valley’s five-set win at GCU, Avery Shewell had 24 kills, hit .317, and had 4 aces, 17 digs and two blocks … Additionally within the WAC, Utah Tech swept at Abilene Christian and Kennedi Knudsen had 20 kills, hitting .400, to go along with eight digs and 4 blocks … Nicole Mauser had 17 kills and hit .484 and Eliana Posado had 17 kills and eight blocks — three solo — as California Baptist broke its seven-match dropping streak with a four-set win over visiting Southern Utah.
Teaching carousel
Radford, which is in the midst of its season, has employed Savanna Hammond as head coach. The Highlanders of Virginia — 7-10 general, 4-2 within the Massive South — have been with out head coach Chris Hertel since October 1 when he left “resulting from private causes efficient instantly.”
Michelle Johnson has been the interim head coach. Hammond has been the pinnacle coach the previous years at Division II Bluefield State. She performed at Radford. Bluefield State of West Virginia is 10-14, 6-1 within the CIAA. Scott Walsh is listed because the interim head coach …
Central Arkansas has employed Avery Thibodeax as its seashore coach. He was on the College of New Orleans, the place he the interim head seashore volleyball coach since August 2021.
