There were two matches involving ranked teams Wednesday in NCAA Division I volleyball, as Kansas and Baylor came away with Big 12 victories.
The line of the day: South Carolina’s Riley Whitesides had 30 kills in a five-set SEC win at LSU, hitting .364 with an assist,13 digs and five blocks, one solo.
Things are escalating, and not in a good way, off the court around the situation involving San Jose State and the Mountain West Conference.
It’s all in this NCAA edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Thursday
The match of the day is in the Big Ten when No. 2 Nebraska, which has won 21 in a row, is home for No. 16 Minnesota. Sixth-ranked Wisconsin is at No. 23 USC, No. 10 Purdue is home for Rutgers and Indiana goes to Iowa.
There are two ACC matches as No. 7 Stanford plays host to Virginia and Virginia Tech goes to Cal.
The Big 12 slate shows No. 8 Arizona State home for West Virginia, No. 20 Utah goes to Houston, No. 24 BYU is at UCF and Arizona is at Cincinnati.
Among the other matches, there’s a big one in the Ohio Valley as league-leading Southeast Missouri (15-11, 12-2) goes to second-place Lindenwood (17-9, 11-3). Madolyn Isringhausen of the OVC’s Tennessee Tech is this week’s AVCA national player of the week.
Western Kentucky, which has won 19 in a row, is home for Liberty in Conference USA; Southeastern Louisiana, which has won a nation-best 22 in a row and clinched the Southland Conference regular-season title, plays at East Texas A&M, which last week changed its name from Texas A&M-Commerce; UT Arlington, which has won 15 in a row and already clinched the WAC, goes to Southern Utah.
NCAA volleyball Tuesday, Wednesday
WEDNESDAY: The match of the day was the four-set victory by No. 12 Kansas over visiting No. 18 TCU. Ayah Elnady led the Jayhawks with 18 kills in the 25-20, 25-21, 15-25 25-17 victory to go with 15 digs and four blocks. Caroline Bien added 14 kills, two assists and 18 digs, and Toyosi Onabanjo had 12 kills, hit .409, and had two digs and five blocks, one solo. TCU’s Jalyn Gibson had 19 kills, an assist, 18 digs and a block. Also in the Big 12, No 17 Baylor swept at Kansas State and Colorado won in four at Iowa State …
In the only Big Ten match, UCLA pulled off a surprising sweep of visiting Washington, which hit .164. Cheridyn Leverette led UCLA with 13 kills …
NC State swept visiting Wake Forest in the only…
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