Pittsburgh held onto its No. 1 spot in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll as our top five places stayed the same. Nebraska remained No. 2, but the gap narrowed. Pitt got eight of the 12 of the first-place votes. Nebraska, which had one the week before, got the other eight.
Kansas moved up two spots to No. 6, Arizona State made the biggest jump, four notches to No. 9, while Texas took the biggest tumble, four spots to a tie for 13th.
The poll and voter comments follow.
Rank, Team, Points, First-Place Votes, Previous ranking
1. Pittsburgh (188 points, 8 first-place votes, 1)
2. Nebraska (184, 4 first-place votes, 2)
3. Penn State (164, 3)
4. Louisville (156, 4)
5. Creighton (148, 5)
6. Kansas (120, 8)
7. Wisconsin (115, 7)
8. Stanford (112, 6)
9. Arizona State (88, 13)
10. SMU (84, 11 )
11. Purdue (80, 10)
12. Oregon (46, 12)
T-13. Texas (42, 9)
T-13. Minnesota (42, 14)
T-15. Dayton (22, 15)
T-16. Kentucky (22, 16)
Also receiving votes: Georgia Tech, TCU, BYU, Florida
Dropped out: None
The voters
Lincoln Arneal (@Lincoln_VB) — Nebraska beat writer for Huskers Illustrated and co-host of the Volleyball State podcast
Abby Benton (@numberonevolleyball) — played at DII Catawba and DIII William Peace and has 54K Instagram followers and more than 116K on TikTok
Michella Chester (@michellachester) — THE volleyball voice of NCAA.com
Shelby Coppedge (@shelbycoppedge) — ESPN and Volleyball World TV analyst, Fan Duel Reporter; former Texas A&M-Corpus Christi DS
Emily Ehman @emilyehman) — Big Ten Network, ESPN, Volleyball World TV analyst; former Northwestern DS
Lee Feinswog (@VBMagazine) — editor of VolleyballMag
Daniel Gillman (@DanielGillman/@SixRotations) — host of Six Rotations for the AVCA, national play-by-play for multiple sports
Sam Gore (@sambgore) — veteran broadcaster/studio host who does ESPN volleyball play-by-play, host of the Fifth Set during the NCAA Tournament
Mick Haley (@Michaelhaley6) — ESPN analyst, former national-championship coach at Texas and USC and 2000 USA Olympic coach
Amy Pauly (@acpauly10) — Head coach of the Orlando Valkyries of the Pro Volleyball Federation and the team’s vice-president of volleyball operations; former assistant coach at USC, head coach at UAB; libero at Alabama
Dennis Punzel (@DennisPunzel) — Wisconsin beat writer for the Wisconsin State Journal, author of Point! Wisconsin
Ed Strong (@VBMagazine) — VolleyballMag super Tweeter
Voter comments
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