Third-ranked Stanford won the battle of the top two teams in the Pac-12, getting past visiting No. 6 Oregon in five.
Southeastern Louisiana not only won its 19th in a row, the Lions clinched the Southland Conference regular-season title.
SFA won its 15th match in a row and in doing so clinched the WAC regular-season title.
Line of the night: UNLV’s Isabel Martin, a senior outside from Germany, had 34 kills in a five-set win over Colorado State, hitting .361, to go with an assist, two aces, three blocks and 11 digs.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Friday’s chock-full NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule.
In the ACC, No. 8 Pittsburgh goes to No, 7 Georgia Tech, which means at least one of the four teams tied for first has to fall back. The other two are No. 5 Louisville, home for Duke, and Florida State, which is at Syracuse. Clemson is at Notre Dame, North Carolina is at Wake Forest and NC State is at Boston College.
Big 12-leading Texas is off as No. 14 Kansas tries to cut the two-game gap when it goes to Iowa State. No. 13 BYU, a game behind Kansas, is back at UCF, AVCA No. 20 Baylor goes to TCU, AVCA No. 2 Houston is back at Oklahoma, West Virginia is back at Texas Tech.
None of the ranked Big Ten teams play each other. Second-ranked Wisconsin is at Maryland, AVCA No. 16 Purdue is at Minnesota, AVCA No. 19 Penn State is home for Michigan, Illinois is at Iowa and Rutgers is at Indiana.
The two Pac-12 matches show No. 9 Washington State home for UCLA and AVCA No. 25 USC at Washington.
None of the ranked SEC teams play each other, either. No. 10 Tennessee is home for Georgia, No. 12 Arkansas is at Alabama, AVCA No. 21 Florida is home for LSU and Texas A&M is at Missouri.
In the Big East, the league leaders are on the road as No. 15 Creighton goes to Seton Hall and Marquette is at Georgetown.
Dayton, No. 20 in the AVCA, is home for VCU in Atlantic 10. Dayton, 27-2, 16-0, goes for its 23rd win in a row.
AVCA No. 23 Western Kentucky, which has already won Conference USA, goes for victory No. 21 in a row when it plays at Middle Tennessee after sweeping there Thursday.
UC Santa Barbara puts its one-game Big West lead over Long Beach State on the line when it plays host to the 49ers. Long Beach has won eight in a row.
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