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You may have heard this before, but be prepared. It was Friday in NCAA volleyball, when seemingly anything can and will happen.
Maryland dealt a tremendous blow to Ohio State’s chances of being a top-four NCAA Tournament seed Friday by breaking the visiting No. 5 Buckeyes’ 14-match Big Ten winning streak.
Fourth-ranked Louisville not only avenged its AC loss earlier in the season, it swept visiting No. 7 Pittsburgh
Colorado helped its NCAA at-large chances by sweeping at No. 21 Washington in the Pac-12.
There were upsets galore in the mid-major tournaments going on around the country with NCAA bigs at stake.
And Coppin State’s Andrea Tsvetanova, the national aces leader, tied the NCAA record for aces in a three-set match with 15 as the Eagles won their MEAC tourney match over South Carolina State.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Saturday’s NCAA Division I schedule that includes three big regular-season showdowns, one in the Big 12, one in the SEC and another in the Big East.
Automatic NCAA bids will be captured in the following conferences:
— ASUN, top-seeded Liberty vs. No. 2 FGCU;
— CAA, top-seeded Towson vs. No. 3 Delaware;
— Ivy, top-seeded Yale vs. No. 3 Brown;
— MAAC, top-seeded Fairfield vs. No. 6 Quinnipiac;
— NEC, top-seeded Sacred Heart vs. No. 3 FDU;
— Ohio Volley, No. 5 Southeast Missouri vs. No. 6 Tennessee State
— WAC, No. 2 Stephen F. Austin vs. No. 4 Utah Valley
Both ranked teams play in the Conference USA semifinals when top-seeded and No. 20 Western Kentucky plays North Texas and No. 22 Rice faces UTEP.
The America East semifinals get underway with top-seeded and host Binghamton playing New Hampshire and UMBC playing Bryant.
The Atlantic 10 semifinals have top-seeded Loyola Chicago playing George Washington and Davidson playing Dayton.
In the Big South, the top-seeded Fighting Camels of Campbell play Charleston Southern and High Point plays Winthrop.
The Horizon League semifinals pit top-seeded Wright State against Cleveland State and Northern Kentucky vs. Green Bay.
The Patriot League semifinals have No. 1 Colgate playing Loyola Maryland and Army West Point facing Navy.
The SWAC has Alabama State…
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