The Louisville at Pittsburgh ACC rematch was all that and more Saturday as Pitt won in an epic reverse sweep.
NCAA Tournament bids were claimed by UMBC, FGCU, Delaware, Yale, LIU and Grand Canyon.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Sunday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule, which promises to be a really fun day with NCAA bids to be claimed in the Atlantic 10, Big South, Conference USA, MAAC, MEAC, Horizon, Patriot, Southland, Sun Belt, SWAC and SoCon.
In the ACC, 10th-ranked Georgia Tech is home for Syracuse, AVCA No. 25 Florida State is at North Carolina, Wake Forest is at Virginia Tech and Clemson is at Duke.
There are two Big Ten matches involving the top two teams — the last they play before playing each other next Friday — when top-ranked Nebraska goes to Iowa and No. 3 Wisconsin goes to Indiana.
The Pac-12 has a full slate with No. 2 Stanford at AVCA No. 24 USC, No. 5 Oregon at Arizona, No. 12 Washington State at Utah, No. 16 Arizona State home for Oregon State, Washington at Colorado and Cal at UCLA.
In the SEC, where No. 8 Kentucky holds a one-game lead over No. 9 Tennessee and No. 10 Arkansas, Kentucky is home for Missouri, Tennessee is at Texas A&M, Arkansas is home for AVCA No. 20 Florida, Alabama is at Georgia, LSU is at Auburn and Mississippi State is at Ole Miss.
For Sunday’s complete schedule and with viewing links to every match, go to the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.
PITT PREVAILS: Pittsburgh (23-4, 14-2) not only avenged getting swept at Lousville (23-4, 14-3) six weeks ago, the Panthers set a home attendance record as they won 19-25, 24-26, 26-24, 25-21, 17-15.
The crowd of 8,865 in the Petersen Events Center saw a handful of career-high performances on both sides, starting with Pitt’s Torrey Stafford, who had a career-best 21 kills. She hit .439 and had two assists, three blocks and 11 digs. Olivia Babcock led Pitt with a career-high 23 kills — five with no errors in seven attacks in the fifth set — an ace, two blocks and a personal-best 12 digs. Valeria Vazquez-Gomez had 15 kills, three assists and 10 digs. Rachel Fairbanks had two kills in five errorless tries, a career-high 58 assists, an ace, 19 digs and two blocks, one solo. Her team hit .265.
Louisville, which led 14-13 but couldn’t close out, hit. 315 and lost the match on back-to-back hitting errors. Anna DeBeer…
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