Cincinnati beat a ranked team for the first time since 2019 when the Bearcats won in five Thursday at No. 24 BYU in the Big 12.
Fifth-ranked Penn State had another statement victory, this time a sweep of visiting No. 10 Purdue.
Conference play continued and among the victors was UT Arlington, whose first-round WAC victory extended its winning streak to 18.
Northern Colorado won the Big Sky regular-season title and the races tightened in the Big West and West Coast Conference.
And there were two more coaching casualties.
It’s all in this NCAA edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Friday
There are plenty of key regular-season matches, but we’ll start with postseason tournaments.
Action begins in the American Athletic, America East, Atlantic 10, Big South, Conference, Horizon, Ivy League, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, NEC, Southland Conference and SWAC. Included in that bit of alphabet soup is Southeastern Louisiana of the Southland, which goes for its 25th victory in a row; No. 15 Dayton, which goes for win No. 22 in a row in the A10; and Western Kentucky, which aims for its 22nd in a row in Conference USA.
Tournaments continue in the ASUN, Patriot League, SoCon, Sun Belt and WAC.
In the ACC, the match of the day has AVCA No. 15 Georgia Tech at No. 23 Florida State. Third-ranked Louisville is at Virginia, No. 7 Stanford is at Duke, No. 9 SMU goes to NC State, Clemson is at Miami and Cal is at North Carolina.
The SEC’s slate has No. 13 Texas at Oklahoma, No.. 25 Missouri at Ole Miss, South Carolina at Alabama, Arkansas at Tennessee and Georgia at Texas A&M.
The three Big Ten matches show Washington at Ohio State, UCLA at Indiana and Rutgers at Illinois.
The only Big 12 match has No. 22 TCU home for Texas Tech.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
BIG TEN: When it comes to big matches, Penn State goes feast or famine. To wit: Penn State swept Louisville but got swept at Pittsburgh. Earlier this season it swept Purdue, Oregon and Minnesota, but got swept by Wisconsin. Chalk up another sweep as the Nittany Lions overpowered visiting Purdue 25-20, 25-23, 25-16. Camryn Hannan led with 14 kills, two aces, a block and four digs. Gillian Grimes had 20 digs and five assists and Izzy Starck had three kills, 38 assists, five blocks and 10 digs. Eva Hudson led Purdue with 12 kills, nine digs and a block.
No. 14 Oregon swept at Michigan State as Mimi Colyer had 12 kills, two assists, an ace, six digs and seven blocks. No….
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