ESPN did NCAA women’s volleyball a solid Wednesday and, in turn, No. 3 Louisville and No. 13 Kentucky repaid the favor by competing to the end through a five-set match that was worthy of prime time on the Worldwide Leader’s main channel.
Louisville won 20-25, 25-15, 26-24, 24-26, 15-11 in what, hopefully, is not the last time we’ll see the network adjust its schedule and put college volleyball on ESPN.
Also Wednesday, Illinois won at Eastern Illinois, K-State won at Kansas City, and New Mexico is 8-1 afer beating Northern Arizona.
The big number of the night went went to Prairie View’s Kylee Owens, who had 28 kills in a win over Lamar.
Thursday’s schedule continues with more intriguing and some in-state matchups as we head into the final weekend of the pre-conference season.
Two Big Ten teams are in action as sixth-ranked Minnesota is home for No. 22 Pepperdine and No. 10 Purdue is home for Northern Kentucky.
Four Pac-12 teams play Thursday, none of them ranked as Utah is home for No. 15 BYU, Cal goes to Saint Mary’s, Colorado is at Colorado State, USC is home for NM State, and UCLA goes to San Diego State.
Four ACC teams are on the slate, highlighted by a showdown between No. 7 Georgia Tech at No. 24 Arkansas. NC State plays Georgia at Arkansas, Virginia Tech is home for Norfolk State, and Duke plays host to Winthrop.
Other SEC teams in action include Ole Miss playing both Florida A&M and South Alabama and Mississippi State facing Bowling Green.
Top-ranked Texas is home for Houston and the other ranked Big 12 team, No. 14 Baylor, is home for Tulsa. Also in the Big 12, West Virginia is home for Merrimack and Binghamton, Texas Tech entertains SMU, and Kansas is home for Lipscomb. Also at Kansas, UCF plays Omaha.
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LOUISVILLE TOPS KENTUCKY: The Cardinals improved to 8-1 as Claire Chaussee confounded Kentucky all match long and led with 16 kills. She hit .371 and had two blocks and six digs. Anna DeBeer had 15 kills, an ace, four blocks and 13 digs. Amaya Tillman had 11 kills with two errors in 22 attacks, three blocks and two digs. Aiko Jones had eight kills, an assist, two aces, two block and four digs and Cara Cresse had eight kills, hit .357, and had two digs and seven blocks. Raquel Lazaro had three kills, 46 assists, three aces, 14 digs and three…
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