UC Santa Barbara is alone atop the Big West, San Jose State won again in the Mountain West, and Paula Gursching keeps racking up big kill numbers for Youngstown State.
We’ve also got the AVCA top 25, the national player of the week, and all the rest of Monday’s and Tuesday’s matches.
The NCAA Division I volleyball Wednesday schedule is relatively light, but it has quite a few matches with RPI and NCAA Tournament at-large bids and seeding considerations.
Texas, No. 1 in the AVCA Poll and No. 1 in the RPI, plays one of four Big 12 matches at Iowa State (48 RPI). In a key match for both, No. 14 Baylor is home for Texas Tech (42 RPI), Kansas (19 RPI) goes to West Virginia (167 RPI) and Kansas State (19 RPI) is at Oklahoma (117 RPI).
The three-match Big Ten slate is highlighted by No. 3 Nebraska (4 RPI) at No. 12 Purdue (25 RPI). Sixth-ranked Ohio State (3 RPI) is home for Illinois (69 RPI) and No. 9 Minnesota (also 9 RPI), playing for the first time since Hugh McCutcheon announced this will be his last year as coach, goes to Iowa (97 RPI).
There are four SEC matches, including No. 11 Florida (also 11 RPI) home for Georgia (46 RPI). Arkansas (26 RPI) is home for Texas A&M (55 RPI), LSU (36 RPI) is at Alabama (137 RPI) and Mississippi State (23 RPI) is at South Carolina (76 RPI).
The only ACC match has NC State (64 RPI) at Duke (82 RPI).
The lone American Athletic Conference match has UCF (17 RPI) home for South Florida.
FGCU (67 RPI) is at Stetson in then ASUN.
The two Mid-American West leaders, Ball State (83 RPI), and Toledo (91 RPI), play each other.
Worth noting is that Manhattan (1-19, 1-9, 343 RPI) is at Saint Peter’s (0-23, 0-10, 342 RPI) in the MAAC. East leader Bowling Green (29 RPI) s home for Miami (298 RPI).
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AVCA POLL: Teams 1-8 stayed the same, Texas, Louisville, Nebraska, San Diego, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Stanford and Pittsburgh. Minnesota moved up to a spot to No. 9 and Georgia Tech did the same to No. 10. UCF dropped out after losing to American Athletic rival Houston, which came in at No. 24.
Click here for the complete AVCA Division I Coaches Poll.
AVCA POW: The national player of the week is Florida freshman setter Alexis Stucky. Not surprisingly, she was the SEC setter of the week, too. Stucky averaged 13.33 assists in two sweeps at Mississippi State as…
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