Florida State, a team that received votes in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll but didn’t receive any — zilch — in the AVCA top 25 — is now in a four-way tie for the ACC lead.
They’re all 11-2 after the Seminoles knocked off No. 7 Pittsburgh and No. 11 Georgia Tech upset No. 3 Louisville.
It was another Freaky Friday, one that saw top-ranked and unbeaten Nebraska stay that way, but only pulling off a reverse sweep at AVCA No. 16 Penn State.
Line of the day: Lucy Arndt of Southeast Missouri had 34 kills in her team’s five-set Ohio Valley Conference win over Western Illinois. She hit .380 and had an assist, three aces, a block and nine digs. Worth noting is Evansville’s Melanie Feliciano, who had 23 kills with just one error in 71 attacks in a loss to Drake.
The recaps and top performances follow but first a look at Saturday’s schedule, one that has the ACC, the Pac-12 and SEC taking the day off.
Second-ranked Wisconsin is home for Illinois in one of three Big Ten matches. Iowa is at Michigan State and Indiana is at Ohio State.
The five matches in the Big 12 do not include No. 5 Texas. No. 15 Kansas is home again for Kansas State after beating the Wildcats in five on Friday, No. 15 BYU is home again for Cincinnati after sweeping the Bearcats, AVCA No. 21 Baylor is at Texas Tech, AVCA No. 22 Houston is home again for UCF after sweeping the Knights, Iowa State is back at TCU after winning there in five.
No. 16 Dayton, which swept Rhode Island to improve to 26-2, 15-0 in the Atlantic 10, goes for its 22nd win in a row when it plays host to the Rams again.
Marquette and Creighton are off, but St. John’s tries to keep pace in the Big East when it plays at Connecticut.
Big West-leading UC Santa Barbara goes to Hawai’i, which is two games off the lead and a game behind Long Beach State after losing to Cal Poly. Long Beach is home for CSU Bakersfield.
AVCA No. 23 Western Kentucky improved to 23-4, 13-0 in Conference USA, after beating FIU and plays host to FIU again as it goes for its 19th win in a row.
Wright State, which holds a one-game lead over Milwaukee — after beating the Panthers on Friday — and Green Bay in the Horizon League, is home for Greeen Bay, while Milwaukee goes to fourth-place Northern Kentucky.
Yale, featured here Friday, can clinch the Ivy League title outright…
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