The big news from Sunday came from off the court, when Minnesota’s Hugh McCutcheon announced this will be his last season as head coach of the Gophers.
The next biggest news was that unranked Maryland not only won at No. 9 Purdue, it swept the Boilermakers.
Washington and Oregon, which had to rally to win in five at UCLA, both bounced back from Pac-12 upsets. In the Big East, Creighton had to go the distance as the No. 21 Bluejays beat visiting DePaul in five.
And later Monday on our NCAA Zoom with Emily Ehman, we’ll be joined by Pauline Thiros, chair of the NCAA Division I volleyball committee.
MONDAY-TUESDAY: There are four matches Monday, two in the SWAC with Prairie View facing Alcorn and Texas Southern playing Southern. In the Missouri Valley, Missouri State is at Southern Illinois. Louisiana-Monroe of the Sun Belt plays the SWAC’s Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
Tuesday’s 12-match slate includes UC Santa Barbara, in a three-way tie for the Big West lead with Hawai’i and Cal Poly, at CSUN. Mountain West leader San Jose State, holding a one-game lead over UNLV and Colorado State, is home for Nevada.
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MCCUTCHEON STUNNER: Hugh McCutcheon, who took the USA men to 2008 Olympic gold, the 2012 USA women to Olympic silver, and then the Minnesota women to three NCAA national semifinals since he took over in 2012, announced Sunday that this is his last season as head coach of the Gophers.
Don’t look for any answers to the many questions this creates.
McCutcheon had no comment in the Minnesota news release, which included this from athletic director Mark Coyle: “Out of respect for our program and our student-athletes, he will defer any questions about this decision until the end of the season.”
McCutcheon is 265-71 in his 11 years in Minneapolis. This season, Minnesota is 10-6 overall, 5-3 in the Big Ten, and plays at Iowa on Wednesday. Minnesota said that associate head coach Matt Houk will serve as interim when the season ends and the school looks for McCutcheon’s replacement.
ACC: Second-ranked Louisville (17-1, 8-0) hit .331 and won its 12th in a row, 25-16, 25-15, 26-28, 25-20 over visiting Wake Forest (12-7, 4-4). Aiko Jones had 20 kills, hit .385 and added two aces, a block and four digs. Claire Chaussee had 15…
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