The ACC, which boasts three of prime 4 groups within the AVCA Ballot, had a showcase Wednesday by which these groups went 2-1.
Pittsburgh did greater than validate its No. 1 rating because the Panthers demolished beforehand unbeaten visiting No. 3 Penn State.
Second-ranked Stanford took its first defeat when it was equally demolished at No. 5 Nebraska.
And No. 4 Louisville received in 4 at No. 11 Kentucky.
Texas, Oregon and BYU additionally received.
The recaps and prime performances comply with on this NCAA-heavy version of Volleyball Right now which incorporates some AVCA participant information, some SEC event information, unhappy information from Bemidji State, and a personnel merchandise from LOVB.
Thursday in NCAA volleyball
There are seven Large Ten groups in motion, three of them ranked. No. 6 Purdue (8-0) is at No. 11 Kansas (7-0) of the Large 12 and may be seen on ESPN+. No. 17 Minnesota goes to Inexperienced Bay and No. 21 USC is residence for Loyola Marymount. Additionally within the B1G, Rutgers is at Previous Dominion, Iowa is residence for South Dakota, UCLA is at UC Davis and unbeaten Washington (8-0 and receiving AVCA prime 25 votes) goes to Lengthy Seaside State.
The Large 12’s Arizona State (8-1), ranked No. 14, performs Prairie View. Unranked Arizona (9-0) performs North Dakota State. Additionally within the Large 12, Texas Tech performs FIU, Cincinnati performs Morehead State, Iowa State performs Colgate, Nevada performs UCF, Kansas State performs UC Santa Barbara, Houston performs Texas A&M-Commerce and Colorado performs Colorado State.
Not one of the ACC’s ranked groups play Thursday, though Boston Faculty performs twice at LSU, first in opposition to North Florida after which the house workforce. Syracuse (9-0) faces Le Moyne, Clemson performs Kennesaw State, Virginia Tech performs Chattanooga and Miami is residence for No. 25 Arkansas of the SEC.
Additionally within the SEC, No. 15 Tennessee performs Western Michigan, Auburn performs Samford, Texas A&M (7-0) performs Northern Iowa, Missouri performs Lipscomb and Southern Miss performs Mississippi State.
Additionally, among the many unbeatens, UConn (9-0) performs New Hampshire, South Dakota State (8-0) performs Idaho State and San Jose State (6-0) performs San Francisco.
ACC goes 2-1 on its particular Wednesday
High-ranked Pitt, which has been to the final three NCAA nationwide semifinals, was in postseason type because the Panthers hit .379 and swept visiting Penn State 25-22, 25-19, 25-18. Pitt is 7-0 and has not misplaced a set this season. Penn State of the Large Ten (8-1) was on its heels all match earlier than a Pitt-record residence crowd of 11,800 within the Peterson Occasions Heart.
Pitt nonetheless has all of the weapons from final 12 months, Olivia Babcock, Rachel Fairbanks, Torrey Stafford and Valeria Vazquez Gomez. However throw in freshman center Ryla Jones, who had 11 kills with no errors in 15 assaults and 7 blocks, and, effectively be careful. Stafford had 17 kills with one error in 29 swings, an help, two blocks and eight digs.
Click on right here for the Pitt recap.
Click on right here for the Penn State recap.
Nebraska (9-1) of the Large Ten bolted forward early and by no means regarded again because the Huskers routed visiting Stanford 25-17, 25-22, 25-14. The Cardinal, who hit .100, dropped to 7-1.
Click on right here for the Nebraska recap.
Click on right here for the Stanford recap.
Louisville (8-1) received the battle of Bluegrass State rivals 25-21, 25-18, 20-25, 25-16 as Kentucky of the SEC dropped to 6-3. Anna DeBeer, clearly out of her offensive funk, led the Cardinals with 13 kills, hitting .300 to go together with an help, an ace, three blocks and 12 digs. Reese Robins had 11 kills with one error in 18 assaults to hit .556 and had a block and two digs. Cara Cresse had six kills in 13 errorless assaults and 9 blocks, three solo, and libero Elena Scott had 20 digs and 4 assists. Brooklyn DeLeye led Kentucky, which hit .118, with 17 kills, an help, two aces, a block and three digs. Molly Tuozzo had 17 digs, two assists and 4 aces.
Across the nation
Eighth-ranked Texas (4-3) of the SEC swept at No. 20 Baylor (7-3) of the Large 12 25-17, 25-23, 26-24 as Madi Skinner had 14 kills, hit .417 and had 5 blocks and 6 digs. Reagan Rutherford had 11 kills, hit .529, and had 4 blocks and a dig. Jenna Wenaas had six kills with no errors in 20 assaults and 10 digs. Emma Halter not solely had 14 digs and 7 assists, however the libero acquired a kill in two errorless makes an attempt …
No. 12 Oregon (7-1) of the Large Ten received its seventh in a row, a 25-21, 25-22, 25-19 sweep at Portland State (1-9) of the Large Sky. The Geese, who hit .301, acquired eight kills from Onye Ofoegbu, who hasd no errors in 11 assaults, an help and 5 blocks, one solo …
The Large 12’s No. 19 BYU (5-3) needed to go 5 to beat Utah State (2-7) of the Mountain West. Claire Little led the Cougars with 17 kills, three aces, a block and eight digs. Elli Mortensen had 13 kills, two assists, an ace, two blocks and 7 digs. The most recent within the Bower/BYU setter chain, Alex, had two kills with no errors in 5 tries, 43 assists, fvie blocks and 7 digs. Utah State’s Adna Mehmedovic had 14 kills, an help, a dig and 6 blocks …
Cal’s Kate Mansfield had 11 kills with one error in 16 assaults, a dig and a block because the Bears swept Santa Clara … St. John’s acquired 27 kills from Giorgia Walther and 23 from Erin Jones in a five-set win over Fairfield. Jones had 4 assists, two aces, 18 digs and a block. Rashanny Solano Smith had 25 digs, three assists and an ace … Virginia improved to 10-1 wih a five-set win over Center Tennessee by which Kate Dean had 12 kills, hit .450 and had a block and two digs. Milan Gomillion had 22 digs, two assists and two aces … North Alabama of the ASUN swept on the SEC’s Alabama as Reese Ricketts had 15 kills, hit .448 and had 17 digs and three blocks. Alabama hit .133 within the first assembly between the packages since 1978 … Maryland hit .330 in a sweep of Delaware State. Lilly Gunter had 14 digs, 5 assists and two aces …
Niagara beat Buffalo in 4 as Manoela Forlin had 27 kills, hit .340 and had an help, 15 digs and a block. Niagara had 13 aces, seven by Maria Futey, who had two assists and 20 digs … Furman received in 4 however Presbyterian’s Hannah Rowe had 11 kills, 19 digs, two aces and two blocks … In Southern Miss’s sweep of Jackson State, Torry Tkach had 11 kills in 22 errorless swings, two digs and a block … Cornell beat Binghamton in 4 as Eliza Konvicka had 16 kills, two assists, 5 digs and a block. Binghamton’s Tsvetelina Ilieva had 18 kills, hit .400, and had two assists, 4 aces and 12 digs … IU Indianapolis beat Indiana State in 5 as Morgan Ostrowski had 16 kills with two errors in 24 assaults to hit .583 and had an ace and 5 blocks, one solo … Northwestern swept NIU as Busse Hazan had 12 kills, hit .529, and had an ace, a dig and three blocks …
SEC to have a event in 2025
The Southeastern Convention will relaunch the SEC Volleyball Championship starting in 2025 and has signed a three-year settlement for the occasion to be in Enmarket Enviornment in Savannah, Georgia. There is no such thing as a SEC college in Savannah.
Oklahoma and Texas joined the SEC this 12 months and subsequent 12 months Vanderbilt will area its first volleyball workforce.
The SEC Volleyball Championship beforehand came about from 1979 to 2005. The event was held on campus websites from 1979-1987 and 1994-2005, whereas the occasion came about at impartial places from 1988-1993. Earlier event champions embody Florida (12 titles), Kentucky (5 titles), LSU and Tennessee (4 titles every), and Arkansas and Georgia (one title every).
AVCA creates POY watch checklist
How about a little bit early season player-of-the-year hypothesis?
The AVCA began with an inventory Wednesday and has extra popping out Thursday and Friday.
Right here is the information launch:
The AVCA is happy to announce the creation of a Watch Record for its 2024 Division I Participant of the Yr Award, offered by Nike Volleyball.
The inaugural checklist contains 36 gamers from 21 colleges, and the names shall be revealed in teams of 12 over three days—from Wednesday., Sept. 18 to Friday, Sept. 20. There is no such thing as a order to which checklist gamers are on, besides that each one of a college’s candidates will seem the identical day.
The Watch Record shall be narrowed down in November, after which the names of the finalists shall be launched earlier than the AVCA Conference. The 2024 AVCA Participant of the Yr shall be introduced on Friday, Dec. 20, in Louisville, KY, through the AVCA Conference.
NOTE: The committee can add gamers not from the unique group of 36 to the checklist that can come out in November.
Click on right here to see the checklist of the primary 12 gamers.
Bemidji State coach Kevin Ulmer dies
Kevin Ulmer, 41, died Tuesday after a protracted battle with most cancers.
Ulmer was the pinnacle coach of at Bemidji State in Minnesota for 9 seasons. He beforehand was the pinnacle volleyball coach at Bethel Faculty in Indiana for 4 seasons and served as an assistant coach at Georgetown Faculty in Kentucky earlier than that.
He and his spouse, Kate, have three daughters.
Bemidji’s match on the at College of Minnesota Crookston has been canceled.
Click on right here for extra on the Bemidji web site.
League One Volleyball promotes Spaulding
League One Volleyball (LOVB) has named Rosie Spaulding as president of LOVB Professional. Spaulding was promoted from her position as LOVB’s COO because the league prepares for its 2025 inaugural season.
Earlier than working with LOVB, Spaulding held management roles with Tremendous Bowl 50, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the thirty fourth America’s Cup, developed methods for properties together with SailGP, World Rugby and USA Rugby.
LOVB groups start working towards in mid-November and the season begins January. For extra: https://www.lovb.com/professional
