Nebraska and Creighton placed on a wonderful early season NCAA volleyball present because the Huskers prevailed in 5, the one upset of Tuesday was by SMU over Baylor, and Cal’s Maggie Lee, the 2023 Pac-12 (keep in mind the Pac-12?) freshman of the 12 months had 28 kills in a win over Saint Mary’s.
There are some huge intriguing matches Wednesday and MIVA, the boys’s volleyball convention, introduced its corridor of fame class.
Three high matches spotlight Wednesday’s slate
There are solely 11 matches on Wednesday’s NCAA Division I schedule, however three are properly price watching, beginning with new No. 1 Pittsburgh at No. 23. Pitt is simply 3-0, with sweeps of Oregon, Lengthy Seashore State and Buffalo. USC (3-1) cut up with Pepperdine to open the season, misplaced in 4 at Creighton after which beat Kansas State in 4. That match is at 6 p.m. Pacific and marks the Huge Ten Community debut of volleyball-announcing icon Paul Sunderland.
Sixth-ranked Texas (2-2), coming off that loss to Miami, is house for Houston, 3-1 and at all times a tricky out. That one begins at 8 p.m. Central and is on ESPN2.
No. 13 Florida (5-1) is at No. 15 Georgia Tech (4-1), and precedes Texas-Houston on ESPN2.
Second-ranked Stanford (5-0) goes to the aforementioned Pepperdine (1-3). The Waves, after shedding the 2 to USC, cut up at Hawai’i. That one is on ESPN+.
Western Michigan at Michigan State and Northern Colorado at Colorado ought to be good ones, and so may Iowa at Iowa State. Additionally on faucet are Liberty vs NC State, Binghamton vs. Hofstra, Bryant vs. Holy Cross and Omaha vs. Lengthy Seashore State.
Nebraska holds off Creighton in 5
The Huge Ten Community obtained all it may ask for as Nebraska of the Huge Ten defeated visiting Creighton of the Huge East 25-19, 25-16, 31-33, 16-25, 15-10 within the huge Cornhusker State annual battle.
The Huskers (6-1), with 5 gamers with 9 or extra kills, hit .2234 and had two aces and 9 serving errors. Creighton (5-1) hit .209 and had 4 aces and 15 errors.
Norah Sis did nothing to harm her nationwide player-of-the-year probabilities because the Creighton outdoors led with 24 kills, an help, 4 blocks and 11 digs. Ava Martin had 17 kills, an help, an ace, 17 digs and three blocks, one solo.
However within the fifth set, the Bluejays had been no match for Nebraska, which bolted to a 5-1 lead and was in command the remainder of the way in which. The Huskers hit .444 within the fifth.
Harper Murray led Nebraska with 16 kills, an ace, 4 block and 14 digs. Lindsay Krause had 15 kills, an help, an ace, 5 blocks and 5 digs. Andi Jackson, who hit .379, had eight blocks. Bergen Reilly had a career-high 57 assists to go along with three kills in 9 errorless tries, three blocks and 13 digs. Lexi Rodriguez had 21 digs and 4 assists. Creighton libero counterpart Maddy Bilinovic had 19 digs and 5 assists.
Click on right here for the Nebraska recap, and right here for the Creighton recap.
Across the nation in NCAA volleyball
There have been six different ranked groups in motion and all however No. 23 Baylor — knocked off by SMU — gained, though No. 16 Tennessee needed to go the space to beat Western Kentucky.
Second-ranked Stanford improved to 5-0 with a 25-22, 25-20, 21-25, 25-15 at UC Santa Barbara as Sami Francis had 9 kills with no errors in 16 assaults and 10 blocks, one solo …
No. 8 Wisconsin obtained a giant increase from Julia Orzol, again on the entrance row, in a 25-13, 25-13, 25-14 victory over visiting Milwaukee, which hit .049. Orzol had 14 kills with one error in 19 assaults, two aces, 4 blocks and 7 digs …
Tennessee gained 25-22, 15-25, 25-12, 23-25, 15-11 at Western Kentucky as Nina Cajic had 17 kills, 5 blocks and 13 digs and Paityn Chapman had 15 kills, hit .364, and had eight digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Kaylee Cox led WKU with 18 kills, two aces, 10 digs and two blocks, one solo …
No. 19 Minnesota thumped visiting St. Thomas, which hit .034, 25-20, 25-16, 25-21. Lydia Grote, who had 10 kills, had eight blocks …
No. 21 Florida State hit .384 and gained at North Florida 25-13, 20-25, 25-9, 25-16 as Khouri Louis had 13 kills with one error in 20 swings and 4 blocks and Audrey Koenig had 12 kills in 21 errorless assaults and three blocks …
Up-and-down SMU, which final week upset then-No. 2 Nebraska, swept at Baylor. Each groups are 5-0 after the 25-21, 25-15, 25-16 end result. Naya Shime continued her sturdy begin to the season with 19 kills, hitting .452, to go along with 4 blocks and 6 digs. Baylor hit .020 …
The road of the day went to Cal’s Maggie Li, who had 28 kills within the Bears’ 25-13, 23-25, 25-22, 26-28, 15-10 victory over Saint Mary’s. Li hit .328 and had two assists, an ace, a block and 10 digs. Li is averaging 4.59 kills per set in seven matches. Denver-transfer Gianna Bartolo had 24 digs and 5 assists …
Cicily Hildago had 17 kills with one error in 38 assaults for Southeastern Louisiana in four-set win over South Alabama. She had two aces, 9 digs and two blocks … Rutgers swept LIU and Alissa Kinkela had 15 kills, hit .343, and added six digs and 4 blocks … East Carolina improved to 7-0 with a five-set win over Campbell as Fran McBride had 16 kills, hit .448, and had two digs and 4 blocks … Fataima Ramirez had 23 kills for Alabama A&M in a sweep of West Georgia … American improved to 8-1 with a five-set win over Howard, which obtained 23 kills from Rya McKinnon. AU’s Zedo Yilmaz, a freshman outdoors from Istanbul, had 18 kills, 4 aces, 23 digs and three blocks, one solo …
My Salukis beat UT Martin in 5 as Evan Krakowski had 17 kills and hit .412 for Southern Illinois to go along with 4 digs and eight blocks, two solo … Troy hit .353 in a sweep of Alabama State … Mercer is 6-1 after a four-set win over Kennesaw State … Denver beat Air Pressure in 4 and Molly Mirabelli had 12 kills with one error in 18 swings and 7 blocks, one solo … Julia Ng had 25 digs and two assists in a four-set win for UC Davis over Sacramento State … Coppin State had 5 gamers with 10 or extra kills in a five-set win over Penn … and Hawai’i beat visiting Texas State in 4 as Caylen Alexander had 20 kills, 4 assists, an ace, 10 digs and 4 blocks.
MIVA proclaims fifth Corridor of Fame class
The inductees will likely be Suguru Furuichi, Pete Hanson, Angel Aja, Dave Jandasek and John Loftus of Ohio State; Greg Romano of Ball State, and Fred Malcolm and Hector Soto of IPFW, which is now Purdue Fort Wayne.
