Wisconsin swept at Illinois on Thursday night, the Fighting Camels of Campbell took over sole possession of first in the Big South, South Dakota and San Diego rolled on, and the races stayed tight in a handful of conferences, including the Big Sky, Mountain West, Southland and WAC.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Friday’s NCAA Division I volleyball schedule.
There are no matches between ranked teams, but the Big Ten slate includes No. 6 Ohio State at rising Northwestern, No. 9 Minnesota home for Michigan, No. 14 Purdue at Michigan State and Iowa at Rutgers. Michigan State, Iowa and Rutgers are in a last-place tie for 12th. Look for our feature on Northwestern later Friday.
In the Big East, No. 13 Creighton is home for Providence and No. 17 Marquette (featured here Thursday) is home for Georgetown.
Catching Stanford in the Pac-12 will be nearly impossible but the battle for second place is on as No. 16 Oregon, two games back of the Cardinal, plays host to No. 19 Washington, which is tied for second with USC and Washington State. Stanford is home for Utah, USC is home for Arizona State and Washington State plays at Oregon State. Colorado is at Cal and Arizona is at UCLA.
There are seven ACC matches, including No. 5 Louisville home for NC State, No. 7 Pittsburgh at Syracuse and No. 10 Georgia Tech at Miami. Virginia is at Boston College, North Carolina is at Notre Dame, Duke is at Virginia Tech and Clemson is at Florida State.
The lone Big 12 match has Kansas State at Iowa State.
The only SEC match has No. 12 Florida home for Missouri.
In Conference USA, No. 21 Rice is home for North Texas and No. 22 Western Kentucky is at Florida Atlantic.
The American Athletic leaders are in action as No. 23 Houston goes to Cincinnati and No. 25 UCF, a game behind, is home for third-place SMU.
The big Big West match of the day has first-place Hawai’i playing host to third-place Long Beach State, which is two games back in the loss column and riding a nine-match winning streak. Second-place UC Santa Barbara, a game back, is at CSU Bakersfield.
Horizon League leader Wright State puts its unbeaten conference record on the line again when it plays host to IUPUI.
Western Carolina, two games behind SoCon leader ETSU, has a chance to close the gap when those teams play at ETSU.
The tie will be broken atop the Sun Belt West when Troy goes to Texas State.
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