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NCAA volleyball: State upsets Arkansas; USD, BYU, Pepperdine, Ohio St. win

NCAA volleyball: State upsets Arkansas; USD, BYU, Pepperdine, Ohio St. win

Just one AVCA ranked team lost Saturday when Mississippi State won its SEC match against visiting No. 23 Arkansas. 

All three ranked West Coast Conference teams won and so did the Big Ten’s No. 6 Ohio State.

The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Sunday’s NCAA Division I volleyball schedule.

The seven ACC match slate features No. 11 Georgia Tech at No. 2 Louisville, while No. 10 Pittsburgh steps out of league play to go to High Point of the Big South.

Top-ranked Texas is back in action at Texas Tech, while in the other Big 12 match of the day Iowa State is at Kansas State.

Interestingly, there are no matches between ranked teams in the Big Ten, as No. 3 Nebraska goes to Maryland, No. 5 Purdue is home for Rutgers, No. 7 Minnesota is home for Iowa, No. 8 Wisconsin is home for Illinois and No. 12 Penn State is home for Michigan State.

The Pac-12 has six matches, including No. 9 Stanford home for Washington State, No. 16 Oregon home for Arizona and No. 18 Washington at Cal. Colorado goes to UCLA, Arizona State is at Oregon State and Utah is at USC.

In the SEC, No. 23 Arkansas goes at it again at Mississippi State, Texas A&M is at Georgia and Missouri is at South Carolina.

No. 24 UCF continues its American Athletic Conference “homestand” at Wichita State when it plays Wichita State, which is listed as the visitor. Houston is at Temple.

No. 25 Western Kentucky plays host to Charlotte in Conference USA.

There are still four unbeaten teams, Texas, idle Auburn, UCF and Towson, which plays a Colonial Athletic Association match against visiting N.C. A&T.

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SEC: Mississippi State (9-4, 2-1) not only beat No. 23 Arkansas (10-3, 1-2) it swept the visiting Razorbacks 25-19, 25-21, 25-17. Gabby Waden led with 16 kills as she hit .400, Shania Cromartie had 14 kills, hit .324 and had 14 digs, and Lauren Myrick had 13 kills, hit .357 and had 13 digs …

No. 18 Kentucky (8-5, 3-1) hit .323 and beat visiting Alabama (6-10, 0-4) in four. Erin Lamb had 16 kills and hit .500 in the 25-17, 25-18, 19-25, 25-13 victory. She had four blocks, one solo. Reagan Rutherford had 13 kills and hit .355 to go with 11 digs and three blocks …

South Carolina (8-6, 2-2) beat visiting Missouri (7-6, 0-3) in five as McKenzie Moorman and Riley Whitesides had 15 kills each. Oby Anadi had five kills and eight blocks, one solo, and Ellie…

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