All five ranked Big Ten teams that played Sunday won, Louisville shut down Georgia Tech in a key ACC match, and Oregon remained the only unbeaten team in Pac-12 play.
Towson beat N.C. A&T to improve to 16-0, and the line of the day went to Delaware’s Lani Mason, who had 38 kills in a five-set win at College of Charleston while hitting .324. She had an ace, 24 digs and a block.
Teh recaps and top performances follow.
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BIG TEN: All the ranked teams won Sunday, although Wisconsin had to go five to beat visiting Illinois.
Eight-ranked Wisconsin (9-3, 3-1) grinded out a 25-27, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19, 15-5 win over visiting Illinois (7-7, 2-2). Sarah Franklin led with 15 kills, an ace, three blocks and five digs. Devyn Robinson had 14 kills, hit .423, and had three blocks and a digs. Julia Orzol had 12 kills, an ace, four blocks and 16 digs. Gulce Guctekin had 23 digs and 11 assists. Brooke Mosher had 21 kills for Illinois to go with an ace, a block and four digs. Raina Terry had 19 kills, an assist, three aces, three blocks and 17 digs …
No. 3 Nebraska (12-1, 4-0) won in four at Maryland (9-7, 0-4) and won despite hitting .099. Whitney Lauenstein led with 11 kills, four aces, seven digs and six blocks. Sam Csire had 14 kills for Maryland but hit negative. She had an assist, two aces, 12 digs and seven blocks, and Anastasia Russ had 11 blocks …
No. 5 Purdue (13-1, 4-0) swept at Rutgers (7-9, 1-3) as the Boilermakers hit .368. Eva Hudson had 19 kills, hit .469 and had five digs and a block …
No. 7 Minnesota (7-5, 2-2) beat visiting Iowa (6-9, 0-4) in four as Taylor Landfair had 25 kills, hit .340, and added two assists, five digs and two blocks …
No. 12 Penn State (13-2, 2-2) beat visiting Michigan State (10-5, 1-3) in four. Kashauna Williams led with 15 kills as she hit .310 and had three digs and three blocks. Aliyah Moore had 15 kills and hit .364 for Michigan State and added two blocks.
ACC: Second-ranked Louisville (13-1, 3-0) extended its winning streak to eight and to 32 in the conference with a 22-25, 25-14, 24-21, 25-21 victory over visiting No. 11 Georgia Tech (10-3, 3-1).
Claire Chaussee led with 16…
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