It’s pretty tough to be the Big Ten freshman of the week. Tougher to be the B1G player of the week.
But Purdue’s Eva Hudson was given both honors Monday after having one heck of a start to her college career.
She is one of many players who compiled big numbers as the 2022 NCAA volleyball season got underway this past weekend.
The AVCA first regular-season poll was announced Monday and Texas took over the top spot. Nebraska went 3-0 and dropped to second.
And we have a look at some of the top performers after the first weekend.
MONDAY-TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY: There are two matches on the Monday schedule when Arkansas-Pine Bluff is home for Arkansas Tech and Cal Poly plays at Utah Valley.
There are 18 matches on Tuesday, including No. 12 Stanford at No. 13 Florida. Stanford opened with wins in Nashville at Lipscomb and Tennessee State, while Florida beat North Florida, East Tennessee and Virginia.
Also Tuesday, Northern Colorado is at Colorado State and Texas Tech is home for Tarleton State.
Wednesday’s 12 matches include some key battles when No. 4 Minnesota is at Texas, Florida State is home for Florida A&M, Auburn plays host to Alabama State, and in a big battle of 3-0 Bluegrass State teams, No. 3 Louisville goes to No. 22 Western Kentucky.
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AVCA POLL: As you would expect after a wacky weekend when so many Power 5 teams lost, the new coaches poll looks quite a bit different than the preseason popularity contest from two weeks ago.
After Texas and Nebraska, Louisville jumped a spot to No. 3, Minnesota did the same to No. 4, and Georgia Tech moved up from ninth to No. 5. Wisconsin, which lost at Baylor, dropped three spots to No. 6. BYU is up three spots to No. 7.
Others making big jumps included Baylor from 16th to No. 9 and San Diego from No. 25 to No. 15 after beating Pittsburgh, Texas A&M and Hawai’i. But San Diego this week plays at Louisville against the Cardinals and No. 8 Ohio State.
There were big drops by Washington from No. 8 to 14th and USLC from 12th to No. 23. Utah dropped out and Marquette got in at No, 24.
Click here for the complete AVCA Division I Poll.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Who is the NCAA active career leader in kills? Answer below.
BIG NUMBERS: Start with Hudson, the 6-foot-1 product of Bishop Dwenger High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Munciana, had 18 kills in the Boilermakers’ season-opening sweep of Bowling…
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