Volleyball Today: Lehigh scores PL upset; SDSU wins Summit; international report

The one-and-done season is underway:

Lehigh pulled off the first upset of the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball postseason.

The visiting sixth-seeded Hawks, in the conference tournament for the first time since 2019, knocked out third-seeded American in five sets in the opening round of the Patriot League Championship. In the other match, fourth-seeded Army West Point swept No. 5 Loyola Maryland.

South Dakota State clinched The Summit League and Southeast Missouri State came one step closer in the Ohio Valley Conference.

There are just 19 matches on the Wednesday schedule, but that includes seven ranked teams, highlighted by AVCA No. 16 Minnesota at Wisconsin, No. 6 in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll.

We have the info on the DIII women’s tourney.

The coaching carousel did some spinning in Louisiana and we have our weekly report on USA women playing professionally internationally with many names NCAA fans know well, including Dana Rettke, Avery Skinner and Stephanie Samedy, who had 49 kills in her two matches in Japan.

It’s all in this edition of Volleyball Today, which is able to make a rare reference to both Fingall sisters in the same report:

NCAA volleyball Tuesday

There are two Big Ten matches as No. 2 Nebraska, which has won 23 in a row, goes to Iowa, which can be seen on B1G+, and Wisconsin is home for Minnesota. That one is on the Big Ten Network at 9 p.m. Eastern.  Nebraska leads the B1G at 16-0, a game ahead of idle Penn State and two games ahead of Wisconsin.

AVCA No. 17 Baylor is home Texas Tech in the Big 12, which also shows No. 22 TCU entertaining Houston and Kansas State at UCF.

Kentucky, which holds a one-game SEC lead over Florida and idle Texas, is home for Mississippi State at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN+, while Florida goes to Auburn. That one starts at 7 p.m. Eastern and is on the SEC Network.

The lone ACC match has Boston College at Syracuse.

Southeast Missouri State, which beat SIUE on Tuesday, can clinch the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title outright if it beats the visiting Cougars again. The 6 p.m. Eastern first serve is on ESPN+. Second-place Lindenwood, a game back, needs to win at Little Rock again Wednesday and root for SIUE to force a tie. Also i the OVC, Morehead State is at Southern Indiana, Tennessee Tech is at UT Martin and Tennessee State is at Eastern Illinois.

There’s a regular-season finale showdown in the Missouri Valley Conference. 

Northern Iowa, which has won 17…