South Dakota State drew a record home crowd and improved to 14-0 with a Summit League sweep of Kansas City, but scratch San Jose State (9-1) off the unbeaten list after the Spartans were swept at Colorado State in the Mountain West.
Also Thursday, second-ranked Nebraska swept Illinois, No. 3 Penn State beat visiting Maryland in four sets, No. 8 Kansas won at Colorado and Tennessee Tech improved to 14-1 with an OVC sweep of Western Illinois,
Hampton dropped to 0-16 when the Pirates were swept by Elon in the CAA.
Also in this edition of Volleyball Today, we have the first-night results from Athletes Unlimited.
NCAA volleyball Friday
The big one (because I’ll be there) is unbeaten No. 1 Pittsburgh at Boston College. Also in the ACC, No. 4 Louisville is home for Clemson, No. 5 Stanford is home for NC State, VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll No. 16 SMU is at Syracuse, AVCA No. 16 Florida State is at Virginia, No. 19 Georgia Tech is at Notre Dame in a battle of 8-3 teams, Wake Forest is at Cal, Miami is at Virginia Tech and, two days after sweeping at Duke, North Carolina (12-1, 4-0) is home for the Blue Devils.
There are six Big Ten matches, including No. 11 Oregon (11-1), riding an 11-match winning streak, at No. 3 Penn State (12-1). Tenth-ranked Purdue is at Northwestern, No. 12 Minnesota is at UCLA, No. 21 USC is home for Michigan, No. 25 Washington is at Iowa and Michigan State is at Indiana.
The three SEC matches show Georgia at No. 24 Auburn, Tennessee at Ole Miss and LSU at Mississippi State.
There’s a big one in the Big 12 when AVCA No. 20 BYU goes to VBM No. 14 Arizona State. Utah is at Arizona in a battle of 12-2 teams and West Virginia is at Houston.
Sixth-ranked Creighton is at Butler in the Big East and No. 23 Dayton goes to VCU for back-to-back matches in the Atlantic 10.
For you volleyball junkies, I’m doing the double, watching William & Mary at Northeastern, also in Boston, in the CAA in the afternoon before heading to BC.
Winless watch: Hampton (0-16) is home again for Elon in the CAA and Navy (0-13) is home for Lehigh in the Patriot League.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
Nebraska (13-1, 3-0 Big Ten) swept at Illinois (8-5, 0-3) 25-18, 25-22, 25-17. Nebraska, which hit .305, got 10 kills from Merritt Beason, who hit .421, and had an ace, a dig and seven blocks ….
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