NCAA Ladies
November 30, 2024
A day after fourth-ranked Penn State put an finish to No. 1 Nebraska’s 25-match successful streak to assert no less than a share of the Large Ten title, a daily season that started on August 27 involves an finish Saturday.
There’s so much on the road for loads of groups, not the least which is No. 3 Louisville because it performs at No. 6 Stanford within the ACC finale.
At 6 p.m. Jap Sunday on ESPN the 64-team NCAA Match bracket can be introduced, together with the all essential top-four and top-16 seeds. We’ll have a narrative shortly after and later Sunday we’ll put up our annual Zoom with ESPN and Large Ten Community analyst Emily Ehman and tourney contributors from across the nation, together with NCAA Division I volleyball committee chair Danielle Josetti of Marquette.
One crew that may hear its title referred to as is Sacramento State, which bought 30 kills from Bridgette Smith on Friday and defeated Northern Colorado within the Large Sky last for its first NCAA bid since 2007.
NCAA volleyball Saturday
Three tourmament championships, with NCAA computerized bids on the road can be determined, when top-seeded and fifth-ranked Creighton performs second-seeded Marquette within the Large East, top-seeded Colorado State performs second-seeded San Jose State within the Mountain West and top-seeded Cal Poly performs second-seeded Hawai’i within the Large West.
The Large East loser is assured an at-large NCAA bid however Creighton (RPI 6, KPI 6) has slim hopes of being a top-four seed. Colorado State has a slim likelihood of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA Match if it loses, and Cal Poly has to win to get into the NCAA discipline however Hawai’i has shot at an at-large.
The important thing battle within the ACC pits Louisville (25-4, 17-2, RPI 3, KPI 3) at Stanford (24-4, 16-3, RPI 5, KPI 5). Louisville swept their earlier assembly in Louisville on September 28. Additionally within the ACC, No. 1 Pittsburgh (28-1, 18-1), which has already gained a share of the league title, is house for No. 19 Georgia Tech. SMU (24-6, 16-3), hoping to tie for second, performs host to NC State, Notre Dame is at Cal and Boston School is at Virginia.
Three of the SEC’s ranked groups are in motion as No. 12 Texas is house for Ole Miss, No. 16 Florida is at Georgia and No. 24 Missouri is house for Auburn and Texas A&M is at South Carolina.
The Large Ten has Nebraska at Maryland and No. 6 Wisconsin house for Michigan State.
The lone Large 12 match has Colorado at Houston.
Loyola Marymount, which awaits its NCAA name, has a two-game lead within the West Coast Convention. San Diego, tied with Pepperdine for second, is house for Saint Mary’s, whereas Pepperdine is house for Oregon State. Pepperdine and San Diego maintain slim hopes for at-large bids. Portland goes to Pacific and San Francisco is at Georgia.
NCAA volleyball Sunday
BIG SKY: Going 5 for the third day in a row was an excessive amount of for top-seeded Northern Colorado (25-7) as third-seeded Sacramento State (21-11) gained 23-25, 25-19, 19-25, 25-13, 15-9 on its house flooring. It’s the tenth league title for Sacramento State because it joined the convention in 1996 and first since 2007. Bridgette Smith had 30 kills, hit .464, and had 4 of her crew’s 14 aces and 13 digs. Gabi Placide led Northern Colorado with 25 kills, 4 aces and 14 digs.
BIG EAST: As soon as once more it’s top-seeded Creighton (28-2), which has gained 21 in a row, towards No. 2 Marquette (23-7) for the title.
Creighton hit .442 and superior by sweeping DePaul as Norah Sis had 18 kills, hit .441, and had an help, two blocks and 10 digs, and Ava Martin had 12 kills with no errors in 23 swings to hit .552 to go together with an help and 4 digs. Kendra Wait had 4 kills with no errors in 9 tries, 40 assists, three digs and 4 blocks, one solo.
Marquette moved on with a sweep of sixth-seeded Villanova as Aubrey Hamilton had 18 kills, hit .405 and had an ace, 4 digs and two blocks, one solo. Morgan Daugherty had 9 kills with no errors in 16 assaults to hit .600 and had three digs and a block.
Creighton beat visiting Marquette in 4 on October 1 and once more in 4 in Milwaukee on November 10.
BIG WEST: Within the semifinals, top-seeded Cal Poly swept fourth-seeded Lengthy Seaside State and second-seeded Hawai’i beat UC Davis in 5. Within the common season, Cal Poly (22-8) bought swept at house by Hawai’i (20-9) on October 18 and misplaced at Hawai’i in 4 on November.
Towards Lengthy Seaside, Cal Poly’s Tommi Stockham had 17 kills, hit .333, and had two aces and 9 digs. Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i had 22 kills in her crew’s 25-22, 16-25, 25-20, 21-25, 15-13 victory and moved into the highest spot for NCAA kills this season. She additionally had 12 hitting errors and three blocks and 17 digs. Olivia Utterback of UC Davis had 18 kills, two assists, two aces, 5 blocks and 16 digs.
MOUNTAIN WEST: San Jose State (14-5) hasn’t performed since November 19 when it misplaced in 5 to Fresno State. Its regular-season finale resulted in Boise State forfeiting to the Spartans after which Boise State refused to play once more Friday within the semifinals.
Colorado State superior with a four-set win over San Diego State within the different semifinal in Las Vegas as Malaya Jones had 17 kills, two assists, 5 of the Rams’ 10 aces, a block and 10 digs.
Within the common season, CSU (19-10) swept visiting San Jose State on October 3 and gained in 5 at San Jose on November 16.
BIG TEN: Penn State (29-2, 19-1) dealt Nebraska (28-2, 18-1) a 25-21, 14-25, 25-22, 25-23 defeat that every one however assured the Nittany Lions of a top-four NCAA Match seed. Caroline Jurevicius, who began her profession at Nebraska, had a career-high 18 kills. Penn State had not overwhelmed the Huskers since 2018.
Learn the Penn State recap right here and the Nebraska account right here.
No. 11 Purdue swept at Washington as Eva Hudson had 13 kills, two aces, 13 digs and a block and Raven Colvin had 12 kills, hit .409, and had two aces and 4 blocks, one solo.
No. 14 Oregon gained in 4 at UCLA as Mimi Colyer had 21 kills, an help, an ace, 12 digs and three blocks.
AVCA No. 15 Minnesota got here away with a 25-16, 30-32, 25-14, 25-15 victory over visiting Ohio State as Melani Shaffmaster had seven kills in 10 errorless tries, 42 assists, 12 digs and six blocks. Julia Hanson had 23 kills, hit .400, and had an help, three aces, 9 digs and two blocks.
No. 20 USC swept visiting Iowa as Ally Batenhorst had 16 kills, hit .325, and had an ace, 9 digs and 4 blocks.
Indiana swept visiting Illinois as Candela Alonso-Corcelles had 18 kills, 5 digs and a block.
Michigan beat visiting Northwestern in 5 behind a career-high 26 kills from Valentina Vaulet, who hit .392 and had two assists, three aces, eight digs and 4 blocks. Northwestern’s Buse Hazan had 23 kills, two aces, six digs and a block.
Maryland swept at Rutgers as Katie Scherer had 12 kills with one error in 20 assaults to hit .550 and added 5 digs and three blocks, one solo. Eva Rohrback had eight kills in 11 errorless swings and eight blocks, one solo.
ACC: No. 21 Florida State hit .348 and gained in 4 at Wake Forest as 4 gamers had 12 or extra kills. Khori Louis had 15, hit .565, and three blocks. Wake’s Paige Crawford had 20 kills, hit .474, and had an help and 4 digs.
No. 25 North Carolina swept at Clemson. Jackie Taylor had 10 kills, hit .571, and had a dig and three blocks. Clemson hit .069.
Miami swept visiting Duke, which hit .039. The Hurricanes bought 12 kills from Flormarie Heredia Colon, who hit .310 and had an ace, 5 digs and three blocks.
Syracuse gained in 4 at Virginia Tech as Ava Palm had 21 kills, hit .442, and had two assists, 5 of the Orange’s 13 aces, 13 digs and two blocks.
BIG 12: No. 22 TCU wrapped up its four-set victory at Cincinnati one of many strongest serving runs you’ll ever see. Melanie Parra, who had 24 kills, an help, 13 digs and three blocks, one solo, additionally had three of her six aces in a 7-0 run to finish the match. The opposite three serves took Cincinnati utterly out of system. Jalyn Gibson added 13 kills, two assists, two aces, 16 digs and 9 blocks. Sydney Noland had 21 kills and hit .340 for Cincinnati.
Eighth-ranked Arizona State swept UCF for its seventeenth victory in a row. Geli Cyr had 11 kills with one error in 22 assaults to hit .455 and had two aces, a solo block and 9 digs.
No. 10 Kansas gained in 4 at Iowa State. London Davis led with 21 kills, hitting .429, and added three digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Reese Ptacek had seven kills, hit .357, and seven blocks, two solo.
No. 17 Baylor swept at West Virginia. Libero Lauren Briseno had 12 digs, 5 assists and two aces.
Jordan Wilson had 28 kills as Arizona gained in 4 at Texas Tech. Wilson hit .451 and had an ace, 10 digs and two blocks. Texas Tech’s Brynn Williams had 23 kills, an help, an ace and 12 digs.
BYU gained in 4 at Kansas State as Kjersti Sturdy had 10 kills with one error in 18 assaults and 7 blocks, two solo.
SEC: In the one match, Jurnee Robinson completed her season with a flourish, getting 31 kills in a four-set win at Alabama. Robinson hit .312, had three assists, 12 digs and a solo block.
