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Upset Sunday: UK topples Arkansas; Purdue thumps Penn State; CU beats ASU

Upset Sunday: UK topples Arkansas; Purdue thumps Penn State; CU beats ASU

Sierra Cates digs for Virginia Tech against Louisville as teammate Hailey Pearce looks on/VT photo

Kentucky, No. 20 in the AVCA top 25, knocked off Arkansas, the No. 7 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, on Sunday and now the two are tied for first in the SEC. 

AVCA No. 19 Purdue upset VBM No. 11 Penn State in the Big Ten.

The Pac-12 had an upset when Colorado knocked off No. 14 Arizona State, No. 3 Stanford won in four at No. 9 Oregon and Cal — the Bears! — improved to 3-7 in the conference after winning a league road match for the first time in four years.

The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Monday’s and Tuesday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule.

There are five matches Monday, two in the SWAC and one each in the MEAC, Missouri Valley and MAC. 

Tuesday’s slate shows 14 matches, including VBM No. 15 Dayton at Duquesne in the Atlantic 10, where second-place Loyola Chicago plays Saint Louis. ASUN-leading FGCU is at Stetson, Oklahoma of the Big 12 has a rare midseason non-conference match when it plays Tulsa of the American Athletic Conference, the Horizon League has four matches has five, including first-place Southeastern Louisiana at New Orleans.

Want to watch? We have the conference-by-conference schedule with viewing links for any match that is being shown in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.

ACC: No. 5 Louisville (18-2, 9-1) and Florida State (15-7, 9-1) moved back into a first-place tie with idle No. 7 Pittsburgh (18-3, 9-1). Louisville won in four at Virginia Tech (12-9, 2-8). Charitie Luper led with 20 kills as she hit .390 with four errors in 41 attacks to go with two aces, eight digs and two blocks. FSU swept visiting Syracuse (2-18, 0-10) as 10 Seminoles had kills, none more than five. Syracuse hit .000. VBM No. 13 Georgia Tech (17-3, 8-2) stayed a game back with a four-set win over visiting North Carolina (10-9,4-6) as Tamara Otene had 23 kills and Bianca Bertolini 20. Bertolini hit .459 and had an assist, two aces, 10 digs and three blocks … Wake Forest (15-6, 6-4) swept Notre Dame (10-8, 4-6) … NC State (16-5, 6-4) swept Virginia (8-12, 1-9) … Duke (13-8, 4-6) swept Clemson (12-10, 3-7) as Kerry Keefe had 18 kills with two errors in 26 attacks, an assist, three aces, six digs and a block … Miami (14-6, 7-3) swept Boston College (14-10, 3-7).

Minnesota’s Taylor Landfair attacks against Michigan State/Brad Rempel photo

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