The NCAA Tournament round of 16 begins Thursday with four matches in a row beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern. The schedule with notes follows.
So does some NIVC action after Northern Colorado — which pulled off a reverse sweep against Arkansas State — and Arizona joined Bowling Green in the semifinals.
We’ve got some transfer portal updates, not something we’re going to follow daily, but they’re part of this all-NCAA edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Thursday, Friday
All matches on ESPN2
THURSDAY
At Pittsburgh (second matches start 30 minutes after the first ends)
1 p.m. — Missouri (22-8) vs. Kentucky (22-7), Oregon (24-7) vs. Pittsburgh (31-1)
At Louisville
7 p.m. — Florida (23-7) vs. Stanford (27-4), Purdue (27-6) vs. Louisville (27-5)
FRIDAY
At Penn State
1 p.m. — Texas (20-6) vs. Creighton (31-2), Marquette (25-8) vs. Penn State (31-2)
At Nebraska
7 p.m. — Texas A&M (21-7) vs. Wisconsin (25-6), Dayton (31-2) vs. Nebraska (31-2)
See the updated bracket at NCAA.com.
ICYMI:
HEAD-TO-HEAD: Kentucky swept visiting Missouri in SEC play on October 6 and then beat the Tigers in four at Mizzou on November 27 to end the regular season … Pitt opened the season on August 30 with a sweep at Oregon … Stanford and Florida played from 2021-23 in pre-conference, did not play each other this season… Purdue, 13-4 all-time against Louisville, did not play the Cardinals this year. Louisville swept the last three meetings, twice in 2022 including the NCAA Tournament … this is the first meeting between Texas and Creighton since the Longhorns swept their 2016 NCAA tourney match … Marquette and Penn State have met once, early in 2013 … Wisconsin had played Texas A&M eight times, the last in 2019, before sweeping the visiting Aggies on September 21 … Dayton and Nebraska have played four times, the last early in 2014.
HISTORY: Texas swept Nebraska in 2023, giving the Longhorns back-to-back titles. Texas defeated Wisconsin four in the semifinals. Pittsburgh got swept by Nebraska as the Panthers made their third national semifinal appearance in a row.
Just 12 programs have won since the NCAA began holding women’s volleyball championships in 1981: Stanford (9 times), Penn State (7), Nebraska (5), UCLA (4), Hawai’i (3), Long Beach State (3), USC (3), Texas (4), Pacific (2), Kentucky (1), Wisconsin (1) and…
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