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Texas lone unbeaten in NCAA volleyball after Elon stuns Towson, Pacific upsets BYU

Texas lone unbeaten in NCAA volleyball after Elon stuns Towson, Pacific upsets BYU

Now just one team is left unbeaten in NCAA Division I volleyball after Elon knocked off Towson on Saturday.

Texas, featured here Friday, stands alone as the No. 1 Longhorns won in four at Baylor. 

The stunner of the day: Pacific beat visiting No. 12 BYU in five.

Youngstown State lost again, this time in five at Northern Kentucky, but Paula Gursching had 35 kills in the Horizon League contest. Gursching, second in the NCAA in total kills, had 12 digs and a block. 

Sunday’s key matches: There are four in the Big Ten, again no pitting ranked teams. No. 3 Nebraska is home for Northwestern, No. 5 Wisconsin is at Michigan, No. 9 Purdue is home for Maryland and Michigan State is at Indiana.

In the ACC, No. 2 Louisville is home for Wake Forest and No. 8 Pittsburgh is home for Florida State while No. 11 Georgia Tech is off until next Friday. Also, Miami is at Virginia, Clemson is at Duke, Syracuse is at North Carolina, Virginia Tech is at Notre Dame and Boston College is at NC State.

There are six Pac-12 matches, none with ranked teams facing one another. Seventh-ranked Stanford is at Arizona State, No. 15 tries to bounce back at Colorado and No. 17 Oregon tries to do the same at UCLA. Washington State goes to Utah, Oregon State is at USC and Cal is at Arizona.

Both ranked Big East teams are in action as No. 16 Marquette goes to Xavier and No. 21 Creighton is home for DePaul. 

Both ranked Conference USA teams play as No. 22 Rice is home for Charlotte and No. 23 Western Kentucky is at UTEP.

There is a full slate in the American Athletic Conference, where league-leader Houston plays at Memphis and No. 24 UCF is home for East Carolina.

The lone SEC match has Auburn at Missouri.

Towson gets another crack at Elon in the Colonial Athletic Association.

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Baylor’s Elise McGhee is all over this tip by Saige Ka’aha’aina-Torres of Texas/Matt Smith photo

BIG 12: Texas is 14-0, 6-0 in the Big 12 as it increased its lead to two games over Baylor (15-4, 4-2) with a 25-19, 22-25, 25-17, 25-19 win in Waco. Texas got 20 kills from Logan Eggleston, who had two assists, a block and five digs. Asjia O’Neal had 12 kills with no errors in 16 attacks, an assist, four digs and eight blocks, one solo.

Baylor’s Allie Sczech get ready to unload against Texas/Matt Smith photo

Madisen Skinner had 12 kills, three blocks and four digs. Saige…

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