Fourth-ranked Stanford opened the final season of the Pac-12 with a sweep Tuesday over previously unbeaten Cal, No. 18 Baylor swept Stephen F. Austin, there were five Horizon League winners as that conference got underway, and UNLV pulled off a reverse sweep to win its Mountain West opener.
The recaps and best performances follow, but first a look at Wednesday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule:
One of the nation’s fiercest and oldest rivalries plays the first of its final two matche in the Pac-12 — both teams move to the Big Ten next year — when USC goes to UCLA. It will be the 121st meeting between them and can be seen on the Pac-12 Network at 7 p.m. Pacific.
The Big 12 season gets after it with its first match, No. 20 Houston at No. 10 BYU as the two schools meet for the first time since 2010. It can be seen on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. Mountain. Side note: BYU gets no breaks in its Big 12 debut. After playing Houston, it entertains Baylor and then goes to No. 9 Texas for back-to-back matches.
Two of the three ranked ACC teams are in action as No. 13 Georgia Tech goes to Clemson and No. 8 Pittsburgh entertains UMBC of America East.
The Big Ten has two matches including one ranked team, No. 15 Penn State, which plays host to Rutgers. Illinois goes to Indiana. Both matches are on the Big Ten Network.
There are two SEC matches as No. 14 Tennessee plays host to Missouri and Mississippi State goes to Texas A&M. The State-A&M match is on the SEC Network.
There are 23 matches on the Wednesday schedule and if a match is not on a linear cable outlet, it is being streamed. Want to watch? We have the conference-by-conference schedule with viewing links for any match that is being shown in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
Stanford, Baylor win
Stanford beat a previously undefeated team for the second straight match. Three days after pulling off the reverse sweep at Louisville, the Cardinal (8-2) opened Pac-12 play with a 25-19, 25-22, 25-19 victory at Cal (11-1) in the rivalry they call the Big Spike. Stanford had three players with nine kills each, Kendall Kipp, who had five blocks, Caite Baird and Sami Francis. Kami Miner had three kills in eight errorless tries, and had 35 assists, two digs and two blocks. Her team hit .228. Cal, playing before its largest crowd in years — 1,100-plus — hit .076, lowest against Stanford this season. Maggie Li had 10 kills …
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