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Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ohio St. win; USD, Yale, Wright St., WKU extend streaks

Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ohio St. win; USD, Yale, Wright St., WKU extend streaks

All three teams tied for the Big Ten lead won Saturday, No. 1 Nebraska, No. 5 Wisconsin and No. 6 Ohio State.

A handful of winning streaks continued.

Hawai’i won in five at UC Davis to remain atop the Big West, and what a match for Amber Igiede: She had a career-high 24 kills, hit .432 and added an ace, three digs and seven blocks.

But the line of the night goes to Youngstown State’s Paula Gursching, who had 32 kills, hit .369, and had three assists, three aces, 17 digs and two blocks. Gursching, a sophomore outside from Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany, leads the NCAA with 513 total kills, just ahead of South Dakota’s Elizabeth Juhnke, who has 500.

The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at a very busy Sunday schedule in NCAA Division I volleyball.

It’s all on the line for Washington in the Pac-12 as the No. 19 Huskies play host to No. 8 Stanford. Stanford is 10-1 and two full games ahead of the Huskies, No. 18 Oregon and USC.

Oregon is at Arizona State and USC is at Colorado. Washington State, a game back in fifth, is home for Cal. Also, UCLA is at Utah and Oregon State is at Arizona.

Fourth-ranked Louisville is off, but the seven-match ACC slate includes No. 7 Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech and No. 10 Georgia Tech at NC State. Virginia is at Wake Forest, Clemson is at North Carolina, Florida State is at Boston College, Miami is at Syracuse and Duke is at Notre Dame.

The two Big 12 matches have No. 13 Baylor home for West Virginia and Oklahoma at Kansas.

No. 15 Creighton plays a Big East match at St. John’s, 

Only one ranked Big Ten team is in action when No. 12 Purdue plays host to Indiana. Illinois is at Rutgers, Michigan State is at Michigan and Iowa is at Northwestern.

In the SEC, No. 14 Florida is back home for Arkansas, No. 20 Kentucky is home again for Auburn and State is back at LSU.

No. 22 Rice plays host to UTEP in one of five Conference USA matches.

There are six American Athletic Conference matches including lNo. 23 Houston home for East Carolina and No. 25 UCF back at Wichita State. UCF played two home matches a month ago at Wichita State — beating Tulsa and Wichita State — when it had to evacuate because of Hurricane Ida.

The two teams tied for the top of the ASUN face off when Lipscomb plays at Liberty.

In the MEAC, Coppin State, a game up in the win column, plays host to second-place Howard. 

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