Second-ranked San Diego continued its West Coast Conference dominance by winning in four Tuesday at No. 18 BYU and bolstering its case for a top NCAA Tournament seed as the Toreros won their 24th in a row.
Bowling Green battled past Ball State in five to win the MAC Championship and the automatic bid that goes with it.
On Wednesday, top-seeded Northern Iowa plays second-seeded Drake for the Missouri Valley title and that conference’s bid.
The Big East Championship begins with two play-in matches — Xavier vs. Butler and St. John’s vs. UConn — as host No. 15 Creighton and No. 14 Marquette await for Friday’s semifinals. The championship match is Saturday.
The Big Sky Championship begins at Weber State with four matches. The teams take Thanksgiving off before semifinals Friday and the championship on Saturday.
In the American Athletic Conference, No. 22 Houston (27-2, 18-0) goes for its 20th win in a row when the Cougars go to South Florida. No. 23 UCF (25-1, 17-1) goes for its 14th in a row wnen Tulane visits. Houston plays at UCF on Friday.
There are five ACC matches, including No. 4 Louisville at Notre Dame and a key battle when No. 13 Georgia Tech goes to No. 7 Pittsburgh. Also in the ACC, Florida State is at Miami in a match between two teams that will get NCAA bids, Duke is at North Carolina and Virginia is at NC State.
The Pac-12 slate shows No. 6 Stanford ready to clinch the title when Oregon State visits Palo Alto. The Cardinal leads No. 10 Oregon by two games. Oregon plays at Cal. No. 24 Washington is home for USC in a match between two NCAA-bound teams, and two visitors try to keep their NCAA hopes alive when Colorado is at Arizona and Utah is at Arizona State.
Two SEC teams with NCAA bids likely secured are in action when Auburn goes to South Carolina and Tennessee is at Alabama.
The leaders are off but there are five Big Ten matches. No. 11 Penn State is at Northwestern, No. 19 Purdue is at Maryland, Illinois goes to Indiana, Michigan is at Iowa and Rutgers is at Michigan State.
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WCC: San Diego (27-1, 18-0), which had already won the league title, ended the regular season with a 21-15, 25-19, 25-22, 25-22 victory at BYU (21-6, 14-3).
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