Texas Tech beat visiting No. 17 Kansas in a Big 12 reverse sweep on Friday night and No. 3 Florida had to come back to win in overtime at No. 24 Auburn.
Three teams — Stonehill, Bethune-Cookman and Tennessee State — got their first victories,.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Saturday’s key matches on the NCAA Division I volleyball schedule on a day when the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC are off. Accordingly, Sunday’s schedule is loaded.
The Big 12 has three matches Saturday involving four ranked teams, starting with No. 10 BYU home for No. 18 Baylor, No. 17 Kansas back at Texas Tech and No. 9 Texas at back Oklahoma.
The Big East’s No. 11 Creighton goes to Xavier, and No. 23 Dayton of the Atlantic 10 is back at Loyola Chicago. Western Kentucky, tied with Iowa State at No. 25, is home again for UTEP.
Other matches include 11-1 Georgia Southern home for Arkansas State, 12-1 Hofstra at Northeastern, 10-1 Fordham home for Duquesne, 11-1 Wyoming at Boise State, and 12-1 Eastern Illinois at UT Martin.
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ACC: Fifth-ranked Louisville crushed visiting Syracuse 25-15, 25-11, 25-8 as nine players had kills, nine by Anna DeBeer. She had no errors in 17 attacks and her team hit .452 with 38 kills and five errors in 73 swings. Syracuse hit minus .056 … No. 8 Pittsburgh swept at Duke as Torrey Stafford had 15 kills and Olivia Babcock had 13 … Florida State came away with a 25-20, 20-25, 15-25, 25-23, 19-17 victory at Virginia Tech in which Khori Lewis had 15 kills, hitting .481, and Kiara Robey had 12 blocks. VT’s Iliana Rodriguez had 34 digs and an assist … Notre Dame came away with a huge five-set win over visiting Boston College as Ava Lange had 17 kills and Sydney Palazzolo had 15 and 18 digs … NC State improved to 11-1 with a sweep at Clemson … Wake Forest continued…
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