This is a hurriedly put-together collection of the highlights from Saturday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule, a chock-full slate that included James Madison scoring a signature win, a sweep of No. 22 Western Kentucky; Kansas beating No. 19 Marquette, and No. 11 Georgia Tech beating No. 12 Ohio State again.
Sunday’s much shorter schedule has some key matches, including the highly anticipated battle in Austin when No. 2 Stanford of the Pac-12 visits No. 7 Texas of the Big 12.
Third-ranked Louisville of the ACC plays the SEC’s Missouri in a match between two 5-0 teams. Top-ranked Wisconsin of the Big Ten is home for No. 24 Tennessee of the SEC.
Fourth-ranked Nebraska plays Kansas State, No. 5 Minnesota goes to No. 8 Florida, Pitt is back at Kentucky, No, 14 Penn State plays James Madison, No. 20 Creighton faces Northern Iowa, and No. 21 Arkansas plays Michigan.
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Starting with the ACC: Seven players had kills for Louisville (5-0) in its sweep of Northern Kentucky … Georgia Tech (4-0) beat Ohio State for the second straight day as the Yellowjackets hit .311 in the four-set victory. Larissa Mendes had 16 kills, an ace, 14 digs and two blocks. Emily Londot had 20 kills for Ohio State … Virginia got 20 kills from Heyli Velasquez, who hit .514, in a five-set win over Columbia … Duke was down 10-3 in the fifth and came back to beat visiting West Virginia 25-18, 23-25, 23-25, 25-23, 18-16. Jess Robinson had 21 kills and six blocks and Kerry Keefe had 18 kills and four blocks … Notre Dame lost in five to Santa Clara, but Sydney Palazzolo had 23 kills and five aces … Wake Forest is 5-0 after dealing UCF (5-1) its first loss. The Demon Deacons hit .324 and got 17 kills from Olivia Fish, who had one error in 33 attacks. UCF had five players with nie or more kills in the five-set loss … San Diego of the WCC got its first win, beating Boston College in four …
In the Pac-12, No. 6 Oregon got 16 kills from Mimi Colyer and swept Pepperdine … Cal is 5-0 after sweeping Southern Utah. The Bears hit .427 including Annalea Maeder getting six kills in seven errorless tries, 39 assists, two aces, eight digs and a block … Washington swept Indiana … Colorado swept Charlotte as the Buffs hit .430 … Washington State hit .506…
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