We’re still a few days away from the Big Ten showdown, No. 1 Wisconsin at No. 2 Nebraska, with plenty of NCAA Division I women’s volleyball before Saturday..
Both teams play Wednesday when Wisconsin (17-0, 8-0) is home for Ohio State (7-10, 4-4) and Nebraska (17-0, 8-0) is at Northwestern (9-9, 3-3). Also in the Big Ten, Indiana (15-6, 5-3) goes to Purdue (11-6, 5-3) and Michigan (3-14, 1-7) is at Michigan State (12-7, 5-3).
Texas (13-3, 8-0), the No. 6 team in VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, has the only Big 12 match of the day at TCU and it’s on ESPN2. TCU (12-7, 5-3) enters a brutal make-or-break stretch where the Horned Frogs, mid-40s in the RPI, play the Longhorns, AVCA No. 14 Kansas and then No. 24 UCF twice.
The lone ACC match has Pittsburgh, tied for seventh in the VBM Poll, home for Virginia.
The two SEC matches have Alabama at South Carolina and Ole Miss at Georgia.
Saint Peter’s gets another shot when the 0-22 Peacocks (0-11 in the MAAC) play host to NJIT.
Want to watch? We have the conference-by-conference schedule with viewing links for any match that is being shown in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
AVCA POLL: The top six in this week’s AVCA Division I Women’s Volleyball Poll mirrors that of the VolleyballMag.com Suepr 16 Media Poll. Those six, in order, are the two unbeatens, Wisconsin and Nebraska, Stanford, Washington State, Louisville and Texas.
But in the VBM Poll, Arkansas is tied with Pittsburgh for No. 7. In the AVCA, Pitt is alone in seventh, followed by Oregon, BYU and Arkansas.
Two teams moved into the AVCA top 25, UCF at No. 24 and Western Kentucky is back in at No. 25. Minnesota and Iowa State dropped out.
To compare, click here for the AVCA Poll and here for the VBM Poll.
AVCA POW: The AVCA national player of the week is Evansville’s Giula Cardona. The 5-foot-11 junior outside hitter from Rosario, Argentina, tied the Missouri Valley Conference single-match kills record with 40 in a victory last Friday over UIC. The last players to get 40 were USA national-teamers Khalia Lanier for USC in 2019 and Jordan Thompson twice that year for Cincinnati.
Cardona has 27 kills in a win over Indiana State on October 9, and her 40 against UIC included 20 errors on 94 swings in a match when she added an assist, an ace, 16 digs and a block. In a loss to Valparaiso on Saturday, Cardona had 19…
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