TCU, which has been living on the edge all season, rallied again Thursday night and beat visiting West Virginia in five set and is 2-1 in the Big 12 for the first time since 2018.
All three ranked West Coast Conference teams swept, as No. 4 San Diego hit .505 at Gonzaga, No. 15 BYU won at Portland and No. 20 Pepperdine won at San Francisco.
The line of the night went to Kyndal Payne of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, who had 28 kills, hit .344 and had an assist, 12 digs and a block in a five-set Southland Conference win at Northwestern State.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Friday’s NCAA Division I volleyball schedule.
In the ACC, there are seven matches, including No. 2 Louisville at home for Clemson and No. 10 Pittsburgh at Duke.
The four-match Big Ten slate has No. 12 Penn State at No. 8 Wisconsin, No. 5 Purdue at Illinois, No. 3 Nebraska at Rutgers and Michigan State at Maryland.
In the Pac-12, the six-match schedule includes No. 9 Stanford home for No. 17 Washington and No. 16 Oregon home for Arizona State. Arizona is at Oregon State, Utah goes to UCLA, Colorado is at USC, and Washington State is at Cal.
Both ranked Big East teams are in action when No. 19 Marquette is home for Connecticut and No. 21 Creighton is home for Butler.
Unbeaten UCF was scheduled to play at home, but the No. 24 Knights instead are in Wichita, Kansas, where they will play Tulsa on Friday and Wichita State on Saturday in the American Athletic Conference. Also in the AAC, Houston is at East Carolina.
No. 25 Western Kentucky has a Conference USA home match against FIU.
The lone SEC match has Ole Miss at LSU, which means unbeaten Auburn is off. The Big 12 is idle, which includes unbeaten Texas. The other undefeated team, Towson of the CAA, is also off.
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TCU TOPS WVU: The Horned Frogs (7-7, 2-1) beat visiting West Virginia 25-19, 22-25, 19-25, 25-21, 17-15. Audrey Nalls, who had five kills in the fifth set, led with 24 kills despite hitting .094. She had three blocks and 14 digs. Julia Adams had 12 kills, four digs and three blocks, one solo, and Zoe Hall had 11 kills, hit .429, and had an assist, two digs and seven blocks, two solo. Callie Williams had a kill, 49 assists, an ace, a block and seven digs. Her team hit .175.
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