Texas, the No. 8 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, beat AVCA No. 17 Kansas in four and visiting Kansas State beat AVCA No. 18 Baylor in five as the Big 12 took the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball spotlight Thursday.
The Citadel improved to 17-0 after beating UNC in the SoCon, Buffalo’s Katrin Trebichavska had 27 kills for Buffalo in its MAC win over Central Michigan and Taylor Underwood had 31 kills in a San Diego State loss to Air Force.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Friday’s schedule.
The seven-match ACC slate is highlighted by No. 9 Pittsburgh playing host to No. 12 Georgia Tech in the first big battle between the big conference three this season. The other highly ranked ACC team, No. 7 Louisville, is at North Carolina. Also, Virginia Tech is at Syracuse, Notre Dame is at Duke, Wake Forest is at Boston College, NC State is at Miami and Clemson is at Virgina.
The SEC has four matches including VBM No. 6 Florida playing host to AVCA No. 25 Auburn. Kentucky, AVCA No. 22, is home for Missouri, Georgia goes to Mississippi State and Texas A&M is at Ole Miss.
In the Big 12, Kansas is back at Texas and K-State is back at Baylor. Houston, AVCA No. 21, is home for West Virginia, AVCA No. 25 Iowa State is home for Texas Tech and Cincinnati is at TCU.
There are no Pac-12 matches pitting two ranked teams. VBM No. 3 Stanford is at Washington, No. 4 Washington State is home for Cal, No. 5 Oregon is at Colorado, Oregon State is at Utah, USC is at Arizona State and UCLA is at Arizona.
It’s the same in the Big Ten, where No. 2 Nebraska is at Michigan State, No. 14 Penn State is home for Indiana and No. 16 Minnesota is at Maryland. Ohio State, AVCA No. 24, is at Rutgers and Northwestern is at Michigan.
VBM No. 15 Creighton has a Big East road match at Marquette.
Dayton, AVCA No. 20, goes for its 12th win in a row when the Flyers are home for back-to-back Atlantic 10 matches with George Mason.
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BIG 12: Texas improved to 10-3 and moved into a tie with idle UCF atop the standings at 5-0 with a 25-17, 1-25, 25-18, 25-22 win over visiting Kansas (12-3, 3-2). Madkisen Skinner had 18 kills, an assist, an ace, 10 digs and three blocks. Molly Phillips…
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