Second-ranked Louisville got all it could handle at Dayton before winning in five.
No. 4 Nebraska crushed short-handed Creighton in the first two sets and then won in four.
Unranked SMU knocked off No. 14 Baylor in five.
The highlights follow, but first a look at Thursday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedules, one that has some intriguing matches as the pre-conference season continues.
Top-ranked Wisconsin plays Arizona.
Third-ranked Florida plays Sacramento State.
Auburn, 5-0 and at No. 25 ranked for the first time, plays Middle Tennessee.
Towson (6-1) goes to No. 13 Washington State where it plays No. 8 BYU and then the home team. BYU also plays UC Irvine.
Illinois plays Notre Dame, Florida State plays UCF
Virginia Tech (6-0) plays 5-1 Lehigh and 5-0 Texas A&M plays Utah State (5-1). Wyoming, off to a 6-0 start, plays Portland. Arizona State, also 6-0, plays Northern Arizona. And Liberty, another 6-0 team, plays 4-1 Hawai’i.
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Louisville (7-0) got out of Dayton (5-2) with a 25-17, 23-25, 25-19, 19-25, 15-11 victory. Anna DeBeer led with 24 kills and hit .353 to go with two aces, two blocks and 11 digs. Aiko Jones had 12 kills, two aces, four blocks and five digs. Cara Cresse had 12 kills with two errors in 17 attacks to hit .588 and had eight blocks and two digs. Phekran Kong had six kills with one error in 12 swings, an assist and four blocks. Elle Glock had 46 assist, five blocks and nine digs, and Elena Scott had 20 digs, nine assists and an ace. Dayton’s Lexie Almodovar had 22 kills, an assist, four blocks and seven digs, and Taylor Russell had 10 kills …
Nebraska 6-0) beat visiting Creighton 5-2) 25-9, 25-13, 23-25, 25-20, which was playing without All-American Norah Sis. Nebraska, which held a 10-3 blocks advantage, was led by Merritt Beason. She had 17 kills, three assists, seven digs and three blocks, one solo. Lindsay Krause had 12 kills with one error in 23 attacks to hit .478 and had three blocks and a dig. Harper Murray had 10 kills, two aces, three digs and two blocks, one solo. Destiny Ndam-Simpson, in for Sis, led Creighton with 13 kills. Her teammates combined for 29 kills, eight by Ava Martin, who hit negative, and seven by Kiara Reinhardt …
SMU, coached by former Baylor assistant Sam…
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