There were 15 NCAA Division I women’s volleyball matches Wednesday, nine ended in sweeps and five went five sets. That included victories by Wisconsin, the No. 1 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, No. 10 Tennessee, red-hot No. 13 Arkansas, Purdue, Western Kentucky (the hard way), Marquette and surging UCF
That lone four-setter? Manhattan beat Stonehill in four in the NEC.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Thursday’s schedule.
The big match is at Texas, where the Longhorns, No. 8 in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, play host to Kansas, which is No. 17 in the AVCA top 25 and received votes in the VBM Poll. Texas is 9-3, 4-0 in the Big 12, and Kansas is 12-2, 2-1. Texas has won four in a row, all in the conference, since its loss to No. 4 Washington State. Kansas is coming a big weekend in which the Jayhawks beat Houston twice. Also in the Big 12, AVCA No. 18 Baylor is home for Kansas State.
The lone SoCon match features 16-0 The Citadel, along with No. 1 Wisconsin and No. 2 Nebraska as the last unbeatens, at 1-14 UNC Greensboro.
The ACC, Big Ten, SEC and Pac-12 are off, but there are busy slates in the Big Sky, MAC, Mountain West, Southland, Summit, WAC and West Coast Conference.
In the Southland, 0-16 Lamar is still looking for the breakthrough when it goes to McNeese.
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.
Wisconsin (14-0, 5-0 Big Ten) swept 25-19, 25-18, 25-16 at Iowa (8-9, 0-5). Temi Thomas-Ailara had 10 kills, hit .308 and had a block and four digs. Devyn Robinson had nine kills and three blocks and Sarah Franklin had nine kills, an ace, three blocks and nine digs. Julia Orzol had 11 digs and three aces. Iowa’s Caitlan Buettner had 12 kills with one error in 30 attacks, a block and 11 digs …
Purdue (9-5, 3-2 B1G), No. 19 in the AVCA poll, blasted visiting Illinois (7-8, 3-2) 25-11, 25-19, 25-16. Eva Hudson had 16 kills with three errors in 33 attacks to hit .394 and had an ace and eight digs. Taylor Anderson had a kill in three errorless tries, 29 assists, three of her team’s nine aces, two blocks and 11 digs. Illinois hit .117
Tennessee (14-1, 5-0 SEC) cruised to a 25-14, 25-23, 25-18 sweep at Alabama (10-5, 0-4). The Vols, sweeping for the 11th…
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