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Rutgers stuns Minnesota; Citadel is 18-0; Wisconsin, Nebraska, Penn St. win; Lamar!

Rutgers stuns Minnesota; Citadel is 18-0; Wisconsin, Nebraska, Penn St. win; Lamar!

Ali Ruffin serves as plenty of The Citadel classmates look on/Brian Stone photo

If you read these NCAA Division I women’s volleyball roundups regularly, you know there haven’t been too many times when we’ve led with Rutgers, The Citadel and Lamar.

But here you go.

Rutgers beat a ranked team for the first time ever when the Scarlet Knights knocked off visiting Minnesota, No. 16 in both the VolleyballMag.com Super Media Poll AVCA top 25; The Citadel continued the unbeaten start to its best season ever to improve to 18-0; and Lamar got it first victory of the season after starting 0-17.

The line of the day: Northwestern’s Julia Sangiacomo had 32 kills, an assist, two blocks and 11 digs in a five-set win at Michigan State.

Also Saturday, Penn State had to rally to beat visiting Ohio State, BYU’s Erin Livingston went off at Oklahoma, and it starts all over again with a super schedule on tap for Sunday.

The Saturday recaps and top peformances follow, but first a look at a Sunday that has six Pac-12 matches, including the big one when No. 3 Stanford goes to No. 4 Washington State. Stanford is 12-2, 5-0 in the conference, while WSU is 14-1 and also 5-0. Stanford, which leads the overall series 68-4, has won the last 11 matches, a streak started in 2016. WSU is ranked its highest in program history at No. 4 in both the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll and the AVCA top 25.

Also in the Pac-12, No. 5 Oregon is at Utah, AVCA No. 23 Arizona State is home for UCLA, Oregon State is at Colorado, USC is at Arizona and Cal is at Washington

There are seven ACC matches, including No. 7 Louisville at Duke, No. 9 Pittsburgh home for Clemson and No. 12 Georgia Tech at Virginia. Also, Wake Forest is at Syracuse, Notre Dame is at North Carolina, Virginia Tech is at Boston College and NC State is at Florida State.

The SEC’s five ranked teams are in action as No. 6 Florida is home for Alabama, No. 10 Tennessee plays host to LSU, No. 13 Arkansas is home for Missouri, AVCA No. 22 Kentucky is home for Ole Miss and AVCA No. 25 Auburn is at South Carolina.

The Big Ten and Big 12 have Sunday off.

Three teams are trying for their first victories.

St. Peter’s, 0-18, plays host to Niagara in the MAAC.

Alcorn, 0-9, gets two shots at a win when it plays SWAC matches against Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State.

Hampton, 0-9, plays a CAA match against Stony Brook after losing to the same Seawolves on Saturday.

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