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Pt. 2: NCAA chances for ACC, AAC, Big 12, Big East, B1G, C-USA, Pac-12, SEC, WCC

Pt. 2: NCAA chances for ACC, AAC, Big 12, Big East, B1G, C-USA, Pac-12, SEC, WCC

We’ll continue with our conference-by-conference breakdown heading into the home stretch of the NCAA Division I volleyball season with the leagues that will get multiple bids to the 64-team NCAA Tournament: 

ACC, American Athletic, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Pac-12, SEC and the West Coast Conference. 

In case you missed it, Tuesday we had a breakdown of the other 23 conferences, most of which are going to get one NCAA bid.

First a look at Wednesday’s schedule, the AVCA Poll, NCAA RPI and the national player of the week.

The Big 12 has four matches, including No. 1 Texas home for Kansas, No. 15 Baylor playing host to Iowa State, and TCU at West Virginia and Oklahoma at Kansas State.

The SEC has three matches, No. 18 Kentucky home for Tennessee, LSU at Texas A&M and Arkansas at Missouri.

There are two conference tournaments getting underway, the MAAC and Sun Belt. In the MAAC, the league from the Northeast playing at Disney in Orlando, Saint Peters plays Niagara and Manhattan plays Rider. The Sun Belt tourney is in Foley, Alabama, where Georgia State plays Arkansas State and Louisiana-Monroe plays Marshall.

The MAC has a full slate, including division leaders Ball State home for Toledo and Bowling Green at Miami. Also, Akron is at Buffalo, Central Michigan is at Eastern Michigan, Kent State is at Ohio and NIU is at Western Michigan.

The Missouri Valley schedule has league-leading UNI playing at second-place Drake, Murray State at Belmont, UIC at Valparaiso, Bradley at Illinois State and Southern Illinois at Missouri State.

Among the other matches, Wake Forest is at Duke in the ACC, Wichita State plays an American Athletic Conference match at Tulsa and Connecticut plays a Big East match at Providence.

Want to watch a match? We have the viewing links on the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings page.

AVCA TOP 25: The top three — Texas, San Diego and Wisconsin — stayed the same.

Louisville moved up a spot to No. 4, Ohio State did the same to No. 5, and Nebraska fell two spots to No. 6.

There was no major movement and no one dropped out

Click here for the complete AVCA Division I Coaches Poll. There are only two regular-season polls left. 

NCAA RPI: Stanford finally moved into the coveted top four. The Pac-12 leader is behind top-ranked Texas and Louisville, and Ohio State has the fourth spot.

The next four are Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Florida. Rounding out the top 16 are Minnesota,…

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