The season got underway on Tuesday with Nebraska topping Kentucky and Louisville outlasting Wisconsin.
Now, the rest of the NCAA women’s volleyball season begins Friday with more than 200 matches, including quite a few teams playing twice either Friday or Saturday.
ESPN reported outstanding viewership for Tuesday’s season opener when Nebraska played Kentucky
The AVP Chicago Open begins Friday morning on Oak Street Beach on Lake Michigan, the USA women have a sitting match at the Paralympics in Paris, and a Chicago high school needs a volleyball coach.
There is also sad news. Former Arkansas star Pilar Victoria, who also played at Texas, was found dead in her apartment in Türkiye.
And leave with a most bizarre situation at a Chicago high school.
Matches to watch in NCAA volleyball
As we’ve noted, there are a mere 218 matches on Friday’s NCAA Division I women’s schedule. If you go to our TV and Streaming Listings page, you can get links on where many of the matches will be shown.
These are some of the matches of note Friday and note that there are too many to note them all:
NC State vs. Creighton
Pittsburgh vs. Oregon
Penn State vs. Tennessee
UCLA vs. Georgia Tech
USC vs. Pepperdine
Northern Iowa vs. Dayton
UC Santa Barbara vs. Georgia
Florida vs. Colorado State
Southeastern Louisiana vs. BYU
Houston vs. Omaha
Me?
I was in Louisville on Tuesday for Nebraska-Kentucky and then was one of the late-night warriors who stayed until the end of Louisville-Wisconsin. After spending Wednesday with the Indiana University team and coach Steve Aird, I spent Thursday in the great midwestern city of Indianapolis.
And the hometown team is no longer IUPUI, but IU Indianapolis, and those Jaguars and coach Andrew Kroger open their season this afternoon against Eastern Michigan.
First up is SIUE (not the real SIU, say those of us who went to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) vs. EMU at 10 a.m.
After watching that early match, it’s up the road to West Lafayette to Purdue for a doubleheader, first UC Davis vs. UMBC, followed by No. 8 Purdue playing host to Kansas State, a team that got plenty of votes in the preseason AVCA poll. I’m looking forward to seeing Purdue coach Dave Shondell and his team, including two stars in the game, Eva Hudson and Chloe Chicoine, and Kansas State coach Jason Mansfield.
The trip concludes in Milwaukee with what should be four great matches, No. 1 Texas vs. No. 3 Wisconsin and No. 18…
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