Nebraska gained for the twenty second time in a row because the No. 2 Huskers beat visiting No. 16 Minnesota in 4 units within the Huge Ten on Thursday.
There have been no upsets and there have been 4 five-set matches and, extremely, none resulted in reverse sweeps on this season of the reverse sweep.
Line of the day: Pink-hot Tori Hester had a season-high 35 kills in Troy’s Solar Belt loss to App State. She hit .291 and had 4 assists, an ace, 9 digs and a block. It’s the third match in a row wherein she’s 30 or extra kills.
And the AVCA pared its national-player-of-the-year checklist to 14.
It’s all on this version of Volleyball Right this moment:
NCAA volleyball Friday
Two SEC groups using successful streaks sq. off within the ACC when No. 21 Florida, which has gained seven in a row, goes to No. 25 Missouri, which has gained 9 in a row. No. 13 Texas is at Auburn, Georgia is at Tennessee, Mississippi State goes to Alabama and Arkansas is at Ole Miss.
The one match of the eight within the ACC involving two ranked groups has No. 1 Pittsburgh house for No. 22 Florida State. Third-ranked Louisville is house for Duke, No. 9 SMU is house for Miami, No. 7 Stanford is house for Virginia Tech, No. 16 Georgia Tech is house for Syracuse, Boston School is at Clemson, North Carolina is at Notre Dame and Virginia is at Cal.
The lone Huge 12 match has No. 18 TCU at Kansas State.
Two of the 4 Huge Ten matches contain ranked groups when No. 5 Penn State is house for Illinois and No. 11 Oregon is house for Northwestern. Michigan goes to Michigan State and Maryland is at Ohio State.
Fourth-ranked Creighton has a Huge East match house towards Seton Corridor because the Bluejays go for his or her seventeenth victory in a row.
No. 11 Dayton, which has gained 19 in a row, has an Atlantic 10 match at Saint Louis.
The CAA logjam, with 4 groups at 13-3 atop the league, will lose at the very least one group when Towson is house for Hofstra. Delaware is house for Elon and Charleston is house for Northeastern. And Hampton, which is 0-28 and the one group within the nation with out a victory, goes to William & Mary.
The 2 groups tied for the lead within the Ohio Valley, Lindenwood and Southeast Missouri, obtained at it once more after Lindenwood beat SEMO in 4 on Friday.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
Second-ranked Nebraska constructed its Huge Ten lead over idle Penn State with a 25-12, 22-25, 25-22, 25-19 victory over visiting No. 16 Minnesota. Harper Murray had 13 kills for the Huskers and added two assists, 19 digs and three blocks. No. 6 Wisconsin cruised to a 25-18, 25-19, 25-12 sweep at No. 23 USC as Sarah Franklin had 13 kills with no errors in 19 assaults, an help, two aces and 5 digs. USC hit .079. No. 10 Purdue swept visiting Rutgers and Iowa, which used simply seven gamers, swept visiting Indiana …
Within the Huge 12, No. 8 Arizona State swept at West Virginia to construct its result in a full recreation over idle Kansas, No. 20 Utah swept at Houston, No. 24 BYU gained in 4 at UCF, and Arizona gained in 4 at Cincinnati as Carlie Cisneros had 13 kills, an help, two aces, 19 digs and a solo block …
There have been two ACC matches as Stanford hit .440 swept visiting Virginia and Cal did the identical to Virginia Tech. Stanford’s Jordyn Harvey had a career-high 16 kills, hitting .467, and Elia Rubin had 14 kills, hit .500, and had two assists, two aces, 9 digs and three blocks. Cal’s Maggie Li had 13 kills with one error in 29 assaults, two aces eight digs and a block …
FGCU, which has gained 10 in a row, swept visiting North Florida to win the ASUN regular-season title. Shelby Kent had 17 kills with one error in 29 swings to hit .552 and had 11 digs and a block … Talking of streaking, Southeastern Louisiana prolonged its nation-best successful streak to 23 matches with a four-set Southland victory at East Texas A&M. Cicily Hidalgo had 17 kills, two assists, two aces and 22 digs. Additionally within the SLC, Northwestern State beat New Orleans in 4 as Teresa Garza had 22 kills, hit .367, and had two assists, three aces, 12 digs and a block … South Dakota State stayed a recreation forward of Omaha as each gained in The Summit League, the place St. Thomas beat South Dakota in 4 as Lauren Galvin had 23 kills, an help, three aces, eight digs and two blocks …
Loyola Marymount gained its ninth in a row and maintained its two-game lead within the WCC with a sweep of San Francisco. San Diego stored tempo with a sweep at Portland and so did Pepperdine with a sweep of Santa Clara …
Northern Colorado maintained its one-game lead over Weber State as each gained their Huge Sky matches. UNC gained in 4 at Idaho State as Isabel Bennett had 16 kills, hit .406, and had 4 blocks, one solo. Weber State swept visiting Northern Arizona as 5 gamers had six or extra kills … UC Davis is alone once more atop the Huge West. by a half-game after the Aggies beat visiting CSUN in 4. Jade Mild had 21 kills, an help, two aces, 13 digs and a solo block, and Olivia Utterback had 17 kills with one error in 32 assaults to hit .432 and had two assists, two aces, 12 digs and a block … Western Kentucky gained its twentieth match in a row because the Toppers swept visiting Liberty in the one Convention USA match. Alivia Skidmore and Kaylee Cox had 16 kills every …
Colorado State nonetheless holds a two-game lead within the loss column over San Jose State and Fresno State within the Mountain West, however the Rams have been knocked off in 4 at Fresno. Addison Haluska led Fresno with 24 kills, hitting .396, and added eight digs and a solo block. Additionally within the MWC, Utah State obtained 20 kills every from Andrea Simovski and Kaylie Ray in a five-set win over visiting UNLV …
Lindenwood beat visiting Southeast Missouri State, leaving each groups 12-3 within the Ohio Valley. 4 Lions had 11 or extra kills within the four-set victory, 14 by Rebecca Janke, who hit .300 and had seven digs, 4 solo. Additionally within the OVC, Western Illinois beat Tennessee State in 4 as Keyana Cruise had 21 kills, an ace, 12 digs and 5 blocks, two solo … ETSU swept at Western Carolina within the SoCon as Whitney Rammel had 13 kills with no errors in 22 assaults to hit .591 to go together with a dig and 5 blocks …
App State and Arkansas State each gained to get to 10-2 and keep atop their respective Solar Belt Divisions. App State beat Troy in 5 regardless of these 35 kills from Tori Hester, — her teammates mixed for 25 kills and 14 errors — and Arkansas State gained in 4 at Previous Dominion. Additionally within the SBC, Samantha Wunsch had 22 kills and hit .327 for Texas State in its four-set win over visiting James Madison to go together with six digs and 5 blocks … UT Arlington, which already clinched the WAC title, gained its sixteenth in a row with a four-set win at Southern Utah.
AVCA’s closing checklist for POY
The AVCA created a watch checklist for its 2024 Division I Participant of the 12 months award and it’s been pared from the primary 36 introduced on September 20 to 14.
The AVCA publicizes its nationwide participant of the yr on Friday, December 20. VolleyballMag waits till the NCAA Championship is over and may have its participant of the yr on December 24.
The gamers come from 11 faculties, three from Pittsburgh: Olivia Babcock, Rachel Fairbanks and Torrey Stafford. There are two from Nebraska, Bergen Reilly and Lexi Rodriguez.
The others are Kendra Wait of Creighton, Kennedy Martin of Florida, Camryn Turner of Kansas, Eva Hudson of Purdue, Kami Miner of Stanford, Elena Scott of Louisville, Jess Mruzik of Penn State, Melanie Parra of TCU and Sarah Franklin of Wisconsin.
Franklin was the AVCA nationwide POY in 2023.
