Unranked Xavier beat Creighton for the first time, knocking off the No. 11 Bluejays in five Saturday in the Big East. It was Xavier’s first win over a ranked team since 2007.
In the only matchup between ranked teams, No. 10 BYU blasted visiting No. 18 Baylor in their Big 12 match.
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— Coastal Carolina’s Jasmine Rivest had 36 kills, 17 digs and three blocks — two solo — in a five-set Sun Belt win at Georgia State.
— Evansville’s Giulia Cardona had 36 kills, 11 digs, and a block in a four-set Missouri Valley win at Belmont.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Sunday’s key NCAA Division I women’s volleyball matches.
Saturday was an off day for the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC and all four leagues are out in force Sunday.
There are seven ACC matches, including No. 5 Louisville home for Boston College, No. 8 Pittsburgh at North Carolina and No. 13 Georgia Tech home for NC State. GT is 10-1 and NC State is 11-1.
The Big Ten also has seven matches, including top-ranked Wisconsin home for Indiana, No. 2 Nebraska home for Minnesota, No. 15 Penn State at Northwestern, No. 19 Purdue at Rutgers and No. 21 Ohio State at Iowa.
In the Pac-12 the six-match slate has No. 4 Stanford at Colorado, No. 6 Oregon at UCLA and unranked but unbeaten Arizona State home for No. 7 Washington State.
The SEC also has six matches, with No. 3 Florida home for Georgia, No. 14 Tennessee at No. 22 Kentucky, No. 16 Arkansas home for Texas A&M and No. 24 Auburn home for Ole Miss.
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.
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BIG 12: BYU (13-1, 2-0) cruised to a 25-17, 25-17, 25-15 victory over visiting Baylor (6-5, 0-1) as the Cougars hit .378. Erin Livingston had 13 kills, hit .348 and aded an ace, a block and a dig. Whitney McEwan-Llarenas had seven kills in 13 errorless attacks, an ace and eight blocks. Whitney Bower, who had three kills in six…
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