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USD, BYU, Pepperdine win in WCC; Huskers sweep; big NCAA volleyball Friday on tap

USD, BYU, Pepperdine win in WCC; Huskers sweep; big NCAA volleyball Friday on tap

All three ranked West Conference teams won, Nebraska swept Michigan State on Thursday and Cal Baptist ended UT Arlington’s nine-match winning streak,.

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

One of the best matches of the day is in the American Athletic Conference when No. 23 UCF (12-0) goes to Houston (13-2, 4-0). UCF, with Texas and Towson, is one of the three unbeatens in the NCAA Division I volleyball. Houston has won five in a row.

The Big Ten has four matches, including No. 6 Ohio State playing host to No. 13 Penn State and No 11 Minnesota at No. 24 Michigan. Illinois is at Maryland and Rutgers goes to Northwestern. 

There are seven ACC matches, including No. 2 Louisville at Boston College, No. 9 Pittsburgh at Clemson. and No. 10 Georgia Tech is home for Virginia.

In the Pac-12, No. 8 Stanford is at Colorado, No. 12 Oregon is at Washington State and No. 16 Washington is home for Oregon State. Cal goes to Utah, USC is at Arizona and UCLA is at Arizona State.

No. 19 Kentucky has an SEC match at Arkansas, while Mississippi State is at Texas A&M and Alabama is at Ole Miss.

Both ranked Big East teams are in action when No. 18 Marquette goes to St. John’s and No. 21 Creighton goes to Connecticut

The only Big 12 match has Kansas at Iowa State. 

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Nebraska (13-5, 5-0 Big Ten) hit .358 and won 25-18, 25-23, 25-9 at Michigan State (10-6, 1-4) as Madi Kubik, Bekka Allick and Whitney Lauenstein had eight kills each. Kaitlyn Hord had six kills and six blocks. Michigan State hit .031 in the only B1G match of the day … 

It was sweeps night in the West Coast Conference as No. 4 San Diego beat visiting San Francisco, No. 14 BYU beat visiting Santa Clara, No. 20 Pepperdine beat visiting Pacific and Loyola Marymount beat Saint Mary’s. BYU’s Erin Livingston had 16 kills, hit .520, and had an ace and four digs, Pepperdine’s Meg Brown had 12 kills in 18 errorless attacks, two assists, five digs and four blocks; and Kari Geissberger had 14 kills for LMU while hitting .423 to go with an assist, an ace, six digs and five blocks … 

Colorado State (12-4, 5-0) and San Jose State (11-4, 5-0) are atop the Mountain West standings, a game ahead of Boise State (12-4, 4-1) and UNLV (13-3, 4-1) after Colorado State…

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