Pittsburgh is still No. 1 in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll, but Nebraska got one first-place vote.
USC is in at No. 16, while Baylor dropped out.
The top 10 is not very different, although Creighton is up to No. 5, but after the top 10 … Once again, to quote one of our pollsters, in this case Amy Pauly, “it is incredibly hard to determine who should be in what spot after that. It gets messy!”
We rank 16 teams because that’s how many get seeded in the NCAA Tournament and get to play at home the first two rounds. Voter comments follow.
Rank, Team, Points, First-Place Votes, Previous ranking
1. Pittsburgh (175 points, 11 first-place votes, 1)
2. Nebraska (165, 1 first-place vote, 2)
3. Penn State (149, 3)
4. Louisville (147, 4)
5. Creighton (120, 6)
6. Stanford (118, 5)
7. Texas (110, 7)
8. Kansas (98, 8)
9. Purdue (87, 10)
10. Wisconsin (86 9)
11. Oregon (62, 11)
12-T. Kentucky (45, 13)
12-T. Arizona State (45, 14)
14-T. SMU (28, 16)
14-T. Minnesota, 28, 12)
16. USC (16, NR)
Also receiving votes: TCU, Baylor, North Carolina, Texas A&M, Auburn.
Dropped out: Baylor
Note: One of our pollsters could not make it this week, so there are only 11 first-place votes.
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 analyst, 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)…
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