Fridays appear by no means to disappoint in NCAA Division I volleyball for unpredictability and pleasure.
And right here you go, after a Friday through which most groups have been taking part in their first convention matches of the 2024 season:
Unranked Auburn not solely received at VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot No. 13 Kentucky, the Tigers pulled off a reverse sweep.
SMU, No. 23 within the AVCA high 25, swept at VBM No. 12 Georgia Tech.
Baylor, No. 19 within the AVCA ballot, knocked off VBM No. 14 Arizona State.
UC Irvine improved to 2-43 towards Hawai’i by additionally pulling off a reverse sweep in Honolulu.
Virginia improved to 11-1 with a reverse ACC sweep at Wake Forest.
Syracuse (12-1) took its first loss by getting swept at North Carolina and so did UConn (12-1), which was swept by Marquette.
N.C. Central received a MEAC reverse sweep towards visiting Norfolk State.
Line of the night time: Tori Hester had 30 kills for Troy in its five-set Solar Belt win over South Alabama. She hit .361 and had an ace, 13 digs and three blocks.
Recaps and high performances comply with on this all-NCAA version of Volleyball Right this moment, however first a take a look at Saturday’s schedule.
NCAA volleyball Saturday
There are 5 Massive Ten matches, beginning with VBM No. 10 Purdue desperately needing a victory at No. 16 Minnesota. Seventh-ranked Wisconsin is at Northwestern, No. 11 Oregon is dwelling for Indiana, Washington entertains Illinois and Iowa goes to Maryland.
The 2 Massive 12 matches present AVCA No. 17 BYU dwelling for Texas Tech and West Virginia at Iowa State.
AVCA No. 25 Miami was purported to play host to No. 18 Florida State within the lone ACC match of the day, however due to the hurricane that one is at midday Jap Sunday.
There are not any SEC matches on this soccer Saturday.
The one different ranked staff in motion is No. 24 Dayton, which performs host to Rhode Island.
Unbeatens watch: Along with Washington, 12-0 South Dakota State is at Denver. San Jose State (9-0) was scheduled to be dwelling for Boise State, however Boise State has forfeited.
That is the assertion from Boise State Athletics
“Boise State volleyball is not going to play its scheduled match at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28. Per Mountain West Convention coverage, the Convention will document the match as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State. The Broncos will subsequent compete on Oct. 3 towards Air Power.”
No different rationalization was given, though information experiences and feedback on social media
recommend that Boise State received’t play San Jose State as a result of it has a trans participant on its staff.
Allow us to say right here that if that’s the case, few gamers within the NCAA hit as arduous as lots of the males’s coaches and/or males’s apply gamers employed by lots of the high groups. If that’s the reason for the transfer, the choice by Boise State is shameful.
Two squads with robust data — Previous Dominion (11-2) at Georgia Southern (10-1) — have been scheduled for back-to-back Solar Belt matches however they have been canceled due to the hurricane. They won’t be rescheduled. Different matches within the Southeast have been affected, together with all three Massive South matches getting postponed.
Winless watch: 0-14 Hampton is at Hofstra, 0-12 Navy is at Colgate and 0-10 Marist is at Niagara.
ACC, B1G, Massive 12, SEC
ACC: High-ranked Pittsburgh swept Clemson to enhance to 11-0. Olivia Babcock had 15 kills, hit .406 and had three aces, six digs and three blocks, one solo. No. 3 Stanford received in 4 at Notre Dame as Elia Rubin had 17 kills, hit .325, and had an ace, seven digs and 5 blocks. No. 4 Louisville hit .172 and swept visiting Cal, which hit minus .029. SMU hit .400 and received 25-22, 25-20, 25-21 at Georgia Tech behind 14 kills every by Naya Shime and Maya Tabron. North Carolina is 9-1 after dealing Syracuse its first defeat 25-14, 25-9, 25-22. Safi Hampton had 11 kills, hit .320, and had an ace, eight digs and a block. Duke beat visiting Boston School in 5, NC State swept Virginia Tech, and Virginia is 11-1 after its 13-25, 24-26, 25-23, 25-16, 15-7 victory at Wake Forest. Virginia, off to its finest begin since 2003, acquired 11 kills and 6 blocks from Abby Tadder. Lauryn Bowie had 10 kills and 7 blocks, two solo.
BIG TEN: Second-ranked Nebraska battled to a 25-22, 25-10, 23-25, 25-22 victory over visiting UCLA because the Huskers improved to 11-1 and Taylor Landfair, the switch from Minnesota, made her first important influence. She got here into the sport within the first set and completed with 13 kills and hit .429 after having one error in 29 assaults to go along with two digs and 4 blocks. Landfair, who has performed sparingly, had a complete of 28 kills in Nebraska’s earlier 11 matches. Andy Jackson had 13 kills and 6 blocks. UCLA’s Cheridyn Leverette had 17 kills, 11 digs and three blocks. No. 11 Oregon is 9-1 after sweeping Illinois, which hit .099. No. 20 USC beat visiting Ohio State 19-25, 25-21, 25-20, 20-25, 15-13. Ally Batenhorst had 15 kills for USC and Emily Londot had 15 for the Buckeyes to go along with an help, two aces, 11 digs and 10 blocks, one solo. Michigan is 11-1 after sweeping Michigan State, which hit .071, as Allison Jacobs had 14 kills, hit .333, and had two assists, 4 digs and three blocks. And Washington beat visiting Indiana 25-18, 25-20, 25-18 to get to 11-0 because the Huskies hit .337. Emoni Bush led with 11 kills, hitting .310, and had an ace, 4 blocks and two digs.
BIG 12: No. 9 Kansas beat Houston in 4 as Toyosi Onabanjo had 13 kills with one error in 22 swings, a dig and 5 blocks. Baylor upset visiting Arizona State 25-21, 25-22, 17-25, 25-17 as 5 gamers had eight or extra kills, 12 by Allie Sczech. She had one error in 26 assaults and 4 digs. Geli Cyr had 17 kills for ASU to go along with an help, an ace and 12 digs. TCU swept Arizona as Melanie Parra had 17 kills, hit .385, and had 4 of her staff’s 9 aces, 10 digs and a block. Kansas State swept visiting UCF as Liz Gregorski had 14 kills, hit .306, and had three aces, six digs and two blocks.
SEC: Auburn received 21-25, 18-25, 25-16, 25-20, 18-16 at Kentucky, which it beat for the primary time since 2010. Madison Scheer led the Tigers with 17 kills, hitting .342, and he or she had six blocks and a dig. Bella Bell, taking part in at her old skool, had 12 kills with two errors in 23 assaults, two digs and 4 blocks. Brooklyn DeLeye had 21 kills for Kentucky to go along with an help, 4 of her staff’s six aces and 10 digs. Eighth-ranked Texas received in 4 at Texas A&M as three gamers had 11 kills every, Devin Kahahawai, Reagan Rutherford and Madi Skinner (who had 10 errors). Missouri swept at LSU as Mychael Vernon had 17 kills with one error in 25 assaults to hit .640 and Mississippi State received in 4 at South Carolina.
Across the nation
Within the American Athletic, Rice received in 5 at Tulane regardless of the Inexperienced Wave getting 27 kills from Avery Burks, who had 13 digs and a block. Additionally within the AAC, Tulsa beat UAB in 5 as Marta Pecalli had 26 digs, 5 assists and two aces … Courtney Jones had 28 kills and Lipscomb teammate Karlie McNabb had 27 because the Bisons received their ASUN match in 5 at Jap Kentucky. Jones hit .345 and had three aces, 10 digs and a block, and McNabb hit .533 and had two assists, an ace and eight digs … Dayton improved to 11-1 with an A10 sweep of Rhode Island, which hit minus .046. Additionally within the Atlantic 10, Saint Louis acquired 24 kills from Addy Brus in a five-set win over Fordham, to go along with two assists, an ace, 15 digs and two blocks, one solo …
Within the Massive East, No. 6 Creighton swept visiting Windfall, which hit minus .033, and Marquette gave UConn its first defeat … UC Irvine received 21-25, 22-25, 26-24, 25-18, 15-13 at Hawai’i within the Massive West. Hunter Riedl led the Anteaters with 21 kills, hitting .415, and had 5 blocks and 5 digs. Additionally within the Massive West, Cal Poly hit .375 in its sweep of CSUN as Lizzy Markovska had 11 kills, hit .375 and had seven digs … Stony Brook received its CAA match in 5 at William & Mary as Kali Moore had 28 kills, an ace, 10 digs and a block. Additionally within the CAA, Hofstra hit .378 and swept Hampton to drop the Pirates to 0-14 … Manu Johnson had 24 kills for Kennesaw State in its five-set Convention USA win over NM State. She hit .315 and had an help, 4 aces, 10 digs and 6 blocks, one solo. Leah Freeman had 25 digs, three assists and a dig …
Within the Horizon League, Madi Malone had 23 kills for Milwaukee in its five-set win over Oakland and Cleveland State beat Northern Kentucky in 5 regardless of UNK’s Pleasure Banks getting 24 kills whereas hitting .350 to go along with an help, two aces, 15 digs and two blocks. Cleveland State’s Emma Walker had 27 digs, 5 assists and 4 of her staff’s 12 aces …
Bowling Inexperienced vs. Ball State within the MAC is all the time one thing and Friday BGSU received 20-25, 25-18. 30-28, 17-25, 15-11 at Muncie as 5 gamers had 9 or extra kills, 17 by Mia Tyler … N.C. Central got here again for a 19-25, 24-26, 25-23, 25-21, 15-13 MEAC victory over visiting Norfolk State as Kamren Harper had 25 kills for the winners, hitting .438, whereas Norfolk’s Gabrielle Gilbert had 24 kills, an help, two aces, a solo block and 11 digs. NCC’s Gabriela Felix-Baeza had 24 digs and 6 assists …
There have been some massive Missouri Valley numbers as Evansville acquired 29 kills from Guila Cardona in a five-set Missouri Valley win over visiting Valparaiso. Additionally within the Valley, Iva Popovic had 25 kills for Bradley in a five-set win over Belmont as she hit .358 and had two assists, two aces, 18 digs and a block, and Northern Iowa swept Southern Illinois as Kira Fallert had 18 kills, hit .421, and had 19 digs … Tennessee Tech improved to 12-1 with an OVC five-set win at Tennessee State as Madolyn Isringhausen had 23 kills, hit .300, and had 10 digs and 4 blocks, one solo … Navy dropped to 0-12 by shedding in 5 at Military West Level regardless of Ava Toppin having 13 kills in 242 errorless assaults within the Patriot League match … In Florida A&M’s five-set SWAC win at Jackson State, Iyonnie Sanford had 22 kills, hit .425, and had three digs and a block. Additionally within the SWAC, Bethune-Cookman swept Mississippi Valley as Ktyal Value had 10 kills in 11 errorless assaults … In Texas State’s five-set Solar Belt win over Louisiana, Alyssa Ortego had 27 digs and 4 assists.
