Northwestern pulled off the biggest road victory in program history Wednesday night when the Wildcats won their Big Ten match in five at No. 7 Minnesota. The Wildcats had never. beaten a top-10 opponent on the road before.
Auburn had eight kills with no errors in 18 attacks in the fifth set and beat Mississippi State to remain one of the four unbeatens in NCAA Division I volleyball. Also in the SEC, No. 18 Kentucky won in four at Missouri, and Georgia beat South Carolina in five with a school-record 24 blocks, 15 by Sophie Fisher.
Recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Thursday’s schedule.
The West Conference takes center stage with No. 4 San Diego at Gonzaga, No. 15 BYU at Portland and No. 20 Pepperdine at San Francisco as the only ranked teams in action. Also in the WCC, LMU is at Santa Clara.
In the Big 12, West Virginia is at TCU.
There’s MACtion when Central Michigan goes to Toledo.
There’s a full slate in the Mountain West, including Colorado State at Air Force, New Mexico home for Wyoming and UNLV home for Fresno State.
The Southland has five matches, including Southeastern Louisiana at New Orleans.
In the Summit League there are four matches, including North Dakota State home for Oral Roberts.
There are three Sun Belt matches and five in the WAC, including Stephen F. Austin at Tarleton State and UTRGV home for Utah Tech.
The hurricane that hit Florida has caused at least one schedule change that we know of.
Unbeaten UCF (10-0, 2-0), located in Orlando, was to play host to Wichita State on Friday and Tulsa on Sunday in the American Athletic Conference. Now the Knights will play both those matches in Wichita this weekend, coach Todd Dagenais told us. USF, located in Tampa, was scheduled to play both those teams, too. It’s 176 miles from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Wichita, Kansas.
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BIG TEN: Northwestern (12-3, 1-2) won 25-22, 21-25, 17-25, 25-20, 15-13 at Minnesota (6-5, 1-2). Minnesota had won the last 13 matches between the programs and Northwestern hadn’t won in Minneapolis since 2005. Northwestern, which hit .167, got 17 kills from Temi Thomas-Ailara, who also had 14 errors and hit .056. She had six digs and a block. Kathryn Randorf had 13 kills, four blocks and three digs. Hanna Lesiak and Leilani Dodson had 11 kills each, but Dodson had no errors in 25 attacks, an ace, a dig and a…
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