Volleyball Today: Nebraska, Louisville win 5-setters; Hawks to coach UCLA men; AU recaps

There were no upsets Friday in NCAA Division I volleyball on a night when second-ranked Nebraska was taken to the limit by No. 9 Purdue and No. 4 Louisville had to win in five at No. 21 Florida State in the only matches between ranked teams.

There were, of course, reverse sweeps. Boston College did it at Cal, Jacksonville did it at West Georgia, Bryant did it to visiting New Hampshire and Drake did it to visiting Murray State, 

Lines of the night: In Purdue Fort Wayne’s wild 26-28, 25-23, 25-22, 24-26, 28-25 Horizon League victory over visiting Oakland, Panna Ratkai had 30 kills for the third time in her career, hit .289 after having nine errors in 78 swings, and added two assists, three aces, 16 digs and three blocks. There were 20 ties and four lead changes in the fifth set! 

Lipscomb’s Karlie McNabb had 28 kills and hit .480 in her team’s five-set ASUN win over North Alabama to go with an assist, two aces and seven digs. Drake’s Macy Daufeldt had 28 kills for Drake in its reverse-sweep win over visiting Murray State as she hit .355 and had an ace, 12 digs and two solo blocks. Chattanooga lost its SoCon match in five to visiting The Citadel, but Char’e Vanzandt had 27 kills, hit .389, and had three aces, four digs and two blocks. And a nod to Dayton’s Lexi Almodovar, who had 21 kills in a sweep of Loyola Chicago, hitting .500 with two assists, five digs and two blocks. 

Key NCAA results and top performances follow.

Also in this edition of Volleyball Today, we have UCLA hiring John Hawks to replace John Speraw as its men’s coach and Friday’s results from the two Athletes Unlimited matches.

NCAA volleyball Saturday

The ACC has three matches as No. 1 and unbeaten Pittsburgh, which swept the Mustangs on Wednesday, goes to No. 14 SMU, No. 6 Stanford is home for Boston College and Syracuse is at Cal.

The Big Ten shows No. 2 Nebraska home for Rutgers, No. 9 Purdue at Iowa, No. 14 Minnesota home for Maryland and Illinois at Michigan State.

Every one of the four Big 12 matches involves a ranked team. No. 8 Kansas is at Cincinnati, No. 17 TCU is at No. 23 BYU, No. 18 Baylor goes to Utah and No. 12 Arizona State plays at Texas Tech.

The SEC is off.

In the Big East, No. 5 Creighton is at St. John’s and in the Atlantic 10, No. 22 Dayton is home again for Loyola Chicago.

South Dakota State, at 15-0 the only team other than…