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Movement after top 5 in VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll

Movement after top 5 in VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll

The voters didn’t mind that Washington State lost in four to visiting Stanford on Sunday in an epic Pac-12 battle.

In this third week of the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Stanford and Washington stayed 1-2-3-4.

For that matter, Oregon is still No. 5.

And then things got shaken up.

Texas and Pittsburgh are up two spots to Nos. 8 and 9, respectively.

Florida dropped five spots to No. 11. Creighton and Minnesota are out and Kansas and Arizona State are in.

Voter comments follow.

Rank, Team, Points (Last week)
1. Wisconsin, 188 (1)
2. Nebraska, 183 (2)
3. Stanford, 169 (3)
4. Washington State, 155 (4)
5. Oregon, 134 (5)
6. Texas, 126 (8)
7. Pittsburgh, 112 (9)
8. Louisville, 108 (7)
9. Tennessee, 88 (10)
10. BYU, 72 (11)
11. Florida, 68 (6)
12. Georgia Tech, 65 (12)
T-13. Arkansas, 62 (13)
T-13. Penn State, 62 (14)
15. Kansas, 14 (NR)
16. Arizona State, 9 (NR).

First-place votes: Wisconsin (9), Nebraska (3)
Also receiving votes: Auburn, Florida State, Dayton, Creighton, Purdue, Minnesota, Marquette, Iowa State
Dropped out: Creighton, Minnesota

The voters

Emily Ehman @emilyehman) — Big Ten Network, ESPN analyst; former Northwestern DS
Ed Strong (@VBMagazine) — VolleyballMag.com super Tweeter
Michella Chester (@michellachester) — THE volleyball voice of NCAA.com
Daniel Gillman (@DanielGillman/@SixRotations) — host of Six Rotations for the AVCA, Cal Poly play-by-play
Lincoln Arneal (@Lincoln_VB) — Nebraska beat writer for Huskers Illustrated
Sam Gore (@sambgore) — veteran broadcaster/studio host who does ESPN volleyball play-by-play, host of the Fifth Set during the NCAA Tournament
Mick Haley (@Michaelhaley6) — ESPN analyst, former national-championship coach at Texas and USC and 2000 Olympic coach
Dennis Punzel (@DennisPunzel) — Wisconsin beat writer for the Wisconsin State Journal, author of Point! Wisconsin
Fran Flory (@LSUCoachFran) — ESPN+ analyst, national champion at Texas, winningest coach in LSU history, AVCA Hall of Famer
Anne Marie Anderson (@AnneMAnderson, @annemarieandersontv) — Emmy Award winner, volleyball play-by-play veteran who works NCAA matches for the Pac-12 Network, Big Ten Network and ESPN; played at Hofstra, where she still ranks in the top 10 in blocks
Shelby Coppedge (@shelbycoppedge) — ESPN analyst, former Texas A&M-Corpus Christi DS
Lee Feinswog (@VBMagazine) — editor of VolleyballMag.com

Voter comments

Haley: Nebraska, Stanford and Wisconsin are the cream of the…

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