Dayton, the No. 20 team in the AVCA top 25, Western Kentucky and Wyoming were among the winners Tuesday in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball.
News, notes, Monday’s and Tuesday’s outcomes and top performances, follow, plus a remarkable photo, but first a look at Wednesday’s schedule.
There are two Big Ten matches when top-ranked Wisconsin goes to Iowa and Illinois is at AVCA No. 19 Purdue.
Tennessee, the No. 10 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, is at Alabama. The other SEC match has No. 13 Arkansas at LSU.
The lone Big 12 match has UCF at Texas Tech.
The only ACC match has Florida State at Miami, while the Pac-12 is idle.
Other matches include DePaul at Marquette in the Big East, Western Kentucky is back at Liberty after sweeping their Conference USA match Tuesday, and also in CUSA UTEP is at NM State.
AVCA POLL: The only two unbeatens in top 25 remain 1-2, Wisconsin and Nebraska, followed by Stanford, which stayed No. 3 in the AVCA Division I Women’s Volleyball Poll. Just as in our VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, Washington State jumped to No. 4 and Oregon, which lost to WSU, still moved up a spot to No. 5.
No one dropped out. Click here to see the complete AVCA top 25.
VBM SUPER 16: In case you missed it, week two had the same result as the first at the top of the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll: Wisconsin edged Nebraska by one point for the No. 1 spot. But there was quite a bit of movement inside the top 16, although no one dropped out. Most significantly, Washington State moved up two spots to No. 4 and Texas is up two spots to No. 8. Click here to see the story and complete poll.
AVCA POW: The national player of the week is Yale junior outside Audrey Leak, the first player from that program to win the honor. Leak averaged 6.71 kills per set and hit .482 when Yale swept Penn and beat Princeton in four.
MONDAY: Southern Illinois improved to 12-4, 4-1 in the Missouri Valley as the Salukis won in four at Missouri State. Nataly Garcia had 20 kills and Annabelle Sulish 19 … Utah Tech swept its WAC match with visiting Southern Utah as Kennedi Knudsen had 19 kills, hitting .469 … In the SWAC, Texas Southern swept Alcorn as Kennedy Reed had 13 kills and hit .478 and Prairie View beat Southern in four behind 16 kills from Bailee…
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