Top-ranked Pittsburgh (7-0) and No. 10 Kansas (8-0) are now the only unbeaten teams in the AVCA top 25 after the Jayhawks knocked off No. 6 and previously undefeated Purdue on Thursday.
Syracuse (10-0), Arizona (10-0), Washington (9-0) and Texas A&M (8-0) also won Thursday.
The only other unbeaten among the big four conferences is Michigan (9-0) .
Three other undefeateds won Thursday, UConn (10-0), South Dakota State (9-0) and San Jose State (7-0).
Most of those teams are in action Friday and so is 9-0 Tennessee Tech, which plays twice.
In this Volleyball Today, we recap the top matches and list the key performances, including a career-high 22 kills by London Davis in the four-set victory by Kansas over visiting Purdue.
But the line of the day: No doubt on this one, because Nina Cajic had a program-record 42 kills for Tennessee in its four-set victory over Western Michigan. She had four errors in 76 attacks to hit .500 and had an assist, 13 digs and four blocks, one solo.
Three other ranked teams won — No. 14 Arizona State, No. 17 Minnesota and No. 21 USC — and No. 25 Arkansas got swept at Miami.
We’ve also got the CAA schedule because that league starts conference play on Friday.
NCAA volleyball Friday
Things don’t get any easier for Purdue, which stays in Kansas to play No. 9 Creighton of the Big East. Also in the Big Ten, Penn State is home for James Madison, No. 7 Wisconsin plays Troy, Minnesota plays North Dakota, USC plays UNLV, Washington faces Pepperdine and Michigan plays North Carolina. The Missouri-Illinois rivalry is always a good one, Ohio State stays in stay to play at Bowling Green and Indiana does the same at Notre Dame.
Pittsburgh, coming off that sweep of No. 3 Penn State, highlights the rest of the ACC schedule with a home match against East Carolina. No. 13 Georgia Tech is at Georgia, which was ranked and is still receiving votes. Other in-state matches include Clemson home for South Carolina, and Wake Forest home for App State. Miami plays Texas Tech.
In the SEC, No. 8 Texas is home for Hawai’i in their first meeting since 2013, Tennessee plays host to Western Michigan again, No. 16 Florida plays North Texas, LSU — off to a 7-2 star — is home for both North Florida and San Diego, and Auburn (8-1) plays UAB.
The Big 12’s Utah, off to a 7-1 start, plays twice at Wyoming, against UAlbany and Coppin State. Kansas is home for Tulsa of the…
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