We’re back.
Three matches — two reverse sweeps — involving five NCAA Tournament teams in two days, two on the West Coast, one on the East, ridiculously early morning flights and so much fun.
That’s why there were no roundups the past two days, but we’ll make up for it this week with conference-by-conference breakdowns as we head into the home stretch of the NCAA Division I volleyball season.
Details on the road trip — Stanford at USC, Saint Mary’s at San Diego and Louisville at Georgia Tech — follow but first a look at key matches on Sunday’s schedule, another day with more NCAA RPI and tournament seeding implications on the line.
SUNDAY: The match du jour is in the Big Ten, no surprise there, as No. 4 Nebraska (22-2, 14-1) goes to No. 6 Ohio State (18-5, 14-1), which is riding a 13-match winning streak. Both teams trail idle Wisconsin (21-3, 15-1) by a game in the win column. Wisconsin, which has won 14 in a row, swept Maryland on Saturday. Also in the B1G, No. 9 Minnesota is home for Indiana and Rutgers goes to Iowa.
Fifth-ranked Louisville is back at it in the ACC when the Cardinals go to North Carolina. No. 7 Pittsburgh and No. 13 Georgia Tech are off, but Virginia Tech is at Wake Forest, Syracuse is at Boston College and NC State is at Clemson.
The Pac-12 has No. 14 Oregon at Utah, No. 20 Washington at Arizona State and No. 25 Washington State at Arizona, which is coming off its first win over Washington since 2010.
In the Big East, No. 12 Creighton is home for Seton Hall and No. 17 Marquette plays at Connecticut.
Both ranked American Athletic teams play when No. 23 Houston, which has won 16 in a row, goes to Wichita State and No 24 UCF, which has won 10 in a row, is home for Cincinnati.
The Big 12, SEC and West Coast Conference are off.
Towson beat visiting Hofstra on Saturday and now the two teams tied for first will decide the Colonial Athletic Association regular-season title on Sunday.
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SATURDAY: TCU, No. 50 in last week’s RPI, kept its slim NCAA hopes alive with a four-set upset of visiting No. 10 Baylor. First-year head coach Jason Williams was a longtime assistant to Baylor’s Ryan McGuyre. Audrey Nalls had 22 kills, hit .364 and added an assist, nine digs and four blocks, one…
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