There were no upsets Sunday in NCAA Division I volleyball. The ACC leaders all won and Minnesota had to dig deep in the Big Ten.
Lines of the day: Kansas State’s Aliyah Carter — who is from Iowa — had 32 kills in her team’s 25-21, 24-26, 25-23, 23-25, 22-20 Big 12 victory at Iowa State. She added an assist, three aces, nine digs and two blocks.
Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i had 28 kills in a five-set Big West win over CSUN to go with an ace, 15 digs and three blocks, two solo.
Miami’s Flormarie Heredia Colon also had 28 kills in the Hurricanes’ five-set ACC loss at North Carolina. She hit .431 and had an ace, 12 digs and four blocks, two solo.
Reverse sweeps? Of course, including No. 15 Minnesota pulling it off at Ohio State, North Alabama did it to visiting Queens and Eastern Kentucky did to visiting North Florida in the ASUN,
There are six matches Monday in NCAA Division I, five in the SWAC, including first-place Florida A&M (18-6, 10-0) home for Grambling. Second-place Bethune-Cookman (12-11, 9-2) is off, but Alabama State plays Prairie View, Alabama A&M plays Texas Southern, Jackson State plays Southern and Mississippi Valley plays Alcorn.
In the WAC, Tarleton State goes to Abilene Christian.
Athletes Unlimited — completely dominated by Brittany Abercrombie and Bethania De La Cruz-Mejia this season — had two matches Sunday and finishes its fourth of five weeks with two more Monday.
NCAA volleyball Sunday
ACC: Louisville (17-3, 9-1) came out of Dallas with a 25-14, 21-25, 25-20, 25-21 victory at SMU (15-6, 7-3) as Anna DeBeer had 16 kills, 15 digs and three blocks. Cara Cresse had five kills and 11 blocks and Elena Scott had 23 digs, two assists and an ace. SMU’s Naya Shime had 14 kills, two assists, an ace and seven blocks, and Natalie Foster had eight kills, an ace and 11 blocks, one solo …
Top-ranked Pittsburgh (19-1, 9-1) defeated visiting Notre Dame (9-10, 2-8) 25-14, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19 as Torrey Stafford had 19 kills and Olivia Babcock 15. Stafford hit .438 and had two aces and 14 digs …
No. 17 Georgia Tech (15-4, 7-3) beat visiting Wake Forest (12-9, 4-6) in four behind 19 kills from Bianca Bertolino, who hit .333 and had an assist, three aces and 15 digs. Tamara Otene had 16 kills, but 12 errors, and added seven digs and two blocks …
No. 19 Florida State (15-5, 7-3) swept at Duke (8-13, 4-6) as the Seminoles hit .353. Audrey…
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