This is the season of the reverse sweep, when teams lose the first two matches in NCAA Division I volleyball and then win the next three.
Kansas State, which came back from 0-2 in its last match against Iowa State last Saturday, did it again Thursday, this time against visiting Cincinnati.
It was the only reverse sweep on a night when BYU, the No. 23 team in the AVCA Poll, knocked off No. 18 Baylor and unranked but surging Utah swept visiting No. 17 TCU. Also in the Big 12, VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll No. 8 Kansas swept at West Virginia.
There’s now a two-way tie atop the MAC. Eastern Michigan (11-9, 5-1), which has won five of six and seven of its last nine, scored a big five-set victory at Bowling Green (10-7, 5-1), where it hadn’t won since 2015.
South Dakota (15-0) remained unbeaten by sweeping Omaha in The Summit League.
Line of the day: Colorado State lost to Boise State in five but CSU’s Malaya Jones had 28 kills, hit .382, and had two assists, 14 digs and six blocks.
We have a look at Friday’s NCAA slate in this edition of Volleyball Today and note that Athletes Unlimited begins its second round of matches when Team (Kayla) Caffey plays Team (Brittany) Abercrombie at 8 p.m. Eastern in Mesa, Arizona, followed by Team (Bethania) De La Cruz-Mejia vs. Team (Tomkom) Nootsara.
Those four captains are the points leaders and got to choose this week’s teams for the second of the five-week season.
Both matches can be seen on Bally regional networks and on Volleyball World TV.
NCAA volleyball Friday
Top-ranked and unbeaten Pittsburgh is off, but the rest of the ACC is in full swing, including VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll No. 4 Louisville at AVCA No. 21 Florida State and No. 6 Stanford home for Syracuse. No. 20 Georgia Tech plays host to Virginia Tech, Duke is at Wake Forest, North Carolina is at NC State, Notre Dame is at Miami, Virginia is at Clemson and Boston College is at Cal.
In the Big Ten, the only match between ranked teams pits No. 9 Purdue at No. 2 Nebraska. Thrid-ranked Penn State is at Michigan State, No. 10 Wisconsin is home for Maryland, No. 14 Minnesota is home for Indiana, Illinois is at Michigan and Rutgers is at Iowa.
The SEC shows No. 19 Florida home for Mississippi State, South Carolina at Georgia, Alabama at Missouri and Oklahoma at LSU.
The Big 12 is off. Iowa State was supposed to play at UCF, but that match was canceled.
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