NCAA volleyball: Wisconsin, Pitt, Florida win; the corrected AVCA top 25

Back from a three-matches-in-three-days NCAA state-of-Texas volleyball sojourn where we saw Rice get thumped at Baylor, Houston get blasted at Texas State and Stanford sweep at Texas.

This report recaps Sunday’s results and includes the new AVCA top 25, one that certainly was altered by the matches we attended.

There were plenty of other important results, including Wisconsin escaping again, Pitt beating Kentucky again, and Florida blasting Minnesota.

Interestingly, the Texas trip included seeing five ranked teams, but the feature story generated will be on setter Ryann Torres of unranked Texas State. Look for it here this week.

Also, click here to read about Stanford’s beat-down of Texas and see photos from Matt Smith.

There are only five matches on Monday’s schedule, including Florida State of the ACC at Samford of the SoCon. Texas Tech of the Big 12, 6-1, is going on the road for the first time when the Red Raiders play at North Texas of the American Athletic. Saint Mary’s of the WCC, off to a 5-0 start, third best in program history, is at Sacramento State of the Big Sky. The Big Ten’s Northwestern is at Milwaukee of the Horizon League and UC Davis of the Big West is at Idaho State of the Big Sky.

Want to watch? We have the viewing links for any match that is being shown in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.

AVCA, ADJUSTED: The preseason and first-week polls got much needed correction this week now that the sample size has grown after two NCAA volleyball weekends.

Wisconsin, which twice won in five sets stayed No. 1 and got 61 of the 64 first-place votes.

Louisville, which keeps on rolling and moved up a spot to No. 2, got no first-place votes.

Florida, which got two votes, leaped from No. 8 to No. 3 after not just beating but sweeping Stanford and Minnesota.

Nebraska got the other vote and stayed No. 4. None of the first four teams have a loss.

Stanford, which swept at Texas on Sunday, dropped three spots to No. 5. Oregon stayed No. 6, Texas is still seventh, BYU is up a notch to No. 8, Pitt is up a spot to No. 9 and Minnesota fell five spots to fifth.

Tennessee moved up six spots to No. 18. Houston fell eight spots to No. 21. Both Rice, which tumbled from No. 18, and Western Kentucky (No. 22) dropped out and Hawaii (No. 23) and Auburn (No. 25) moved in.