BYU beat USC in the MPSF and Ball State, Ohio State and Purdue Fort Wayne won MIVA matches Thursday in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball.
Two NCAA women’s programs, LiU and Lafayette, hired head coaches.
All that follows, but first a look at Friday’s NCAA men’s schedule.
Seventh-ranked BYU is home again for No. 11 USC, while also in the MPSF No. 2 UCLA is at No. 5 Grand Canyon and No. 9 Stanford is home for Concordia Irvine.
In the Big West, No. 1 Hawai’i goes to UC Santa Barbara, No. 4 Long Beach State is at UC San Diego and No. 5 UC Irvine (tied with GCU in the AVCA Poll) is home for No. 15 CSUN.
Third-ranked Penn State has an EIVA match at Harvard, while also in the EIVA NJIT is at No. 14 Charleston.
The lone MIVA match has No. 10 Loyola Chicago home for Lindenwood.
In Conference Carolinas, Barton is at King and Mount Oive is at Lees-McRae. Belmont Abbey plays independent Queens.
The NEC has a full slate with D’Youville at St. Francis Brookly, Daemen at LIU, Saint Francis (PA) at Sacred Heart and FDU at Merrimack.
Edward Waters plays Central State in the SIAC, while Kentucky State plays independent Limestone.
Alderson Broaddus plays Lincoln Memorial in a match between independents.
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LIU TABS MARTINEZ: His school is dropping athletics, so St. Francis Brooklyn coach Amable Martinez is headed less than a half mile across the borough to LIU. Martinez was at St. Francis for four seasons, including a 14-17 finish in 2022, 7-7 in the NEC. He replaces Ken Ko, gone after seven seasons. LIU finished 14-13 in 2022, 9-5 in the NEC.
LAFAYETTE HIRES KISELICA: Christian Kiselica, who coached last year at Division III Cedar Crest College in nearby Allentown, Pennsylvania. Kiselica previously was an assistant coach at George Washington, UMBC, Penn and Temple, his alma mater, where he played club volleyball. He replaces Ryan Adams, who was there for four seasons.
Cedar Crest finished 13-9 last season, 8-1 in the CSAC. The Falcons won the conference tournament and lost in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Lafayette went 8-15 in 2022, 5-11 in the Patriot League.
THURSDAY MEN: BYU (15-6, 5-4 MPSF) beat visiting USC (8-12, 1-6) behind 22 kills from Kupono Browne, who hit .395 in the 25-21, 22-25, 25-17, 25-20 victory. Browne had an ace — and eight serving errors — a block and three digs. Miks Ramanis had 13 kills,…
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