8 left: Louisville vs. Pitt; Arkansas vs. Nebraska; Oregon vs. Wisconsin; Texas vs. Stanford

Which four teams will advance to Tampa for the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship?

Saturday’s four regional finals are set, all can be seen on ESPNU, and the times are Eastern:

4 p.m. — No. 5 Louisville (27-4) vs. No. 4 Pittsburgh (28-4)

6 p.m. — No. 9 Arkansas (28-5) vs. No. 1 Nebraska (31-1)

8 p.m. — No. 6 Oregon (29-5 vs No. 3. Wisconsin (29-3)

10 p.m. — No. 7 Texas (25-4) vs. No. 2 Stanford vs. (29-3)

This came after a Thursday that included three five-set matches that were all that and more as, in order, Louisville survived against Creighton, Arkanas knocked off Kentucky and Texas went overtime to beat Tennessee.

Wisconsin beat Penn State in four, totally dominating the sets it won, and Stanford lost the first set to Arizona State before winning in four. 

There were three sweeps, Nebraska over Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh over Washington State and Oregon over Purdue. 

Two ACC teams remain and they play each other in Louisville and Pittsburgh. They split their ACC matches this season after Louisville beat Pitt in last year’s national semifinals.

A round-of-eight first timer in Arkansas, the last SEC team, plays at Big Ten champion Nebraska. They haven’t faced each other since 2016.

The Pac-12’s Oregon, which just keeps on winning, at 2021 champion Wisconsin. They haven’t played each other since 2015.

And defending-champion Texas, the last Big 12 team left, at Pac-12 champion Stanford, which swept at Texas in early September. Stanford won the 2016, ’18 and ’19 NCAA titles; Texas won it all last year.

The only one of the top eight seeds that didn’t advance was Kentucky, which couldn’t beat Arkansas a third time this season.

Thursday’s recaps, followed by an NIVC update:

Louisville beat Creighton 25-21, 14-25, 25-23, 24-26, 15-8 as Charitie Luper led with 20 kills, hitting .341, to go with an assist, a solo block and 10 digs. Anna DeBeer had 19 kills with eight errors in 46 attacks to hit .246, but that includes second set…