Welcome to ACC Wednesday, one of the greatest pre-conference days in recent NCAA Division I volleyball memory.
The league has three of the top four AVCA-ranked teams in the nation and they all play, almost at the same time, against other top-ranked teams.
At 7 p.m. Eastern (greetings from the Iron City), No. 1 Pittsburgh (6-0) plays No. 3 Penn State (8-0) of the Big Ten. It can be seen on the ACC Network.
Also at 7 p.m., No. 4 Louisville (7-1) goes to No. 11 Kentucky (6-3) of the ACC. That one is on ESPN.
And at 8 p.m., second-ranked Stanford (7-0) goes to No. 5 Nebraska (8-1) and it is being shown on the Big Ten Network.
Three other ranked teams are in action as part of the 16 matches on the schedule as No. 8 Texas (3-3) of the SEC goes to former Big 12 rival No. 20 Baylor (7-2) and No. 19 BYU (4-3) of the Big 12 is home for Utah State (2-6) of the Mountain West.
Also in this Volleyball Today are recaps and top performances from a Tuesday in which No. 16 Florida had to rally to beat No. 18 Florida State in five and some big-time performances, including some big-time performances, like Sarah Franklin getting a program-record 33 kills when No. 7 Wisconsin beat Marquette in four sets. That’s 8.25 kills per set.
East Carolina and UT Arlington took their first defeats of the season.
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Florida of the SEC hit. 700 in the fifth set as the Gators came back to beat visiting Florida State of the ACC 25-23, 22-25, 21-25, 25-16, 15-6 in an outcome that left both schools 7-2.
Gabrielle Essix led Florida with 16 kills and had one error in 21 attacks to hit .714 to go with a block and a dig. Isabel Martin had 15 kills, hit .367, and had an ace, a block and five digs. Kennedy Martin, back from injury, had 15 kills, a block and seven digs, and Alec Rothe had 10 kills with one error in 15 swings and three blocks and a dig. Taylor Parks had two kills, 56 assists, four aces and 10 digs. Her team hit .348 with seven aces and 16 serving errors.
Florida State hit .245 and had four aces and 13 errors. FSU’s Khory Louis did nothing to hurt her hitting percentage of .455 coming in. She had 18 kills with only one error in 27 attacks to hit .630 with six blocks. Audrey Koenig had 13 kills, two aces, two blocks and nine digs and Taylor Head had 10 kills, an assist, an ace, four blocks and 10 digs …
Sarah Franklin, the 2023 Big Ten player of the year, got her 33 kills for Wisconsin (4-3) in 60 attacks in a…
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