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NCAA volleyball: Pitt beats Louisville, Stanford hits .603, UK bounces back

NCAA volleyball: Pitt beats Louisville, Stanford hits .603, UK bounces back

Pittsburgh is alone atop the ACC after the No. 8 Panthers beat visiting No. 2 Louisville in five, ending the Cardinals’ 37-match ACC winning streak. Both teams went to the NCAA national semifinals last December. The rematch is November 18.

Stanford hit .603 and is alone atop the Pac-12 after the seventh-ranked Cardinal crushed USC. It left the Trojans a game back in second place and a game ahead of Washington, Oregon and Washington, which all had sweep victories Sunday. 

Hofstra won again to extend its Colonial Athletic Association win streak to 12 and No. 16 Kentucky bounced back with an SEC victory at Texas A&M.

There are five matches Monday in NCAA Division I, all in the SWAC. There are eight more Tuesday, including four in the Atlantic 10. Want to watch a match? We have the viewing links updated through Thursday for every match that is being shown on the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings page.

ACC: Pittsburgh (20-2, 10-0) won for the 13th time in a row with its 25-15, 25-13, 25-27, 20-25, 15-12 victory over visiting Louisville. It was the highest-ranked team Pitt has ever beaten. The Panthers have beaten four teams ranked at the time in the AVCA top 10 for the first time in program history with previous victories this season over then-No. 7 BYU, then-No. 5 Ohio State and then-No. 10 Georgia Tech.

Louisville (18-2, 9-1) had won 37 ACC matches in a row since losing to Pitt on October 23, 2020. Both teams went to last year’s NCAA national semifinals.

Courtney Buzzerio led Pittsburgh with 22 kills as she hit .302 and had five blocks and eight digs. Serena Gray had 15 kills with three errors in 25 attacks to hit .400 and had five blocks and a dig. Valeria Vazquez Gomez had 10 kills, an assist, four blocks and seven digs. Rachel Fairbanks had eight kills, 37 assists, an ace, two blocks and 10 digs. Her team hit .225. 

Louisville, which hit .131, got 17 kills from Claire Chaussee, who had two blocks and 10 digs. Nena Mbonu had 14 kills, a block and three digs. Aiko Jones had 11 kills, four ces, seven blocks and eight digs. Amaya Tillman added five kills, two aces, a dig and 10 blocks, one solo …

Four of the matches ended in sweeps as No. 10 Georgia Tech hit .355 and beat Syracuse, Florida State hit .359 and beat Wake Forest, Virginia beat Notre Dame and Miami hit .425 as it beat Virginia Tech in four. North Carolina won in four at Duke as Mabrey Shaffmaster had 18 kills, an assist, three aces, 11 digs and a…

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