We had been due for a Freaky Friday in NCAA volleyball.
October 4 delivered:
— High-ranked Pittsburgh lastly misplaced a set after successful its first 36 of 2024, however improved to 13-0 with a four-set win at Boston School behind a program-record 12 aces by Olivia Babock;
— There have been upsets, together with Virginia sweeping AVCA No. 16 Florida State for its first win over a ranked staff since 2010;
— There have been an unbelievable 10 reverse sweeps, together with No. 20 USC — down 11-5 within the fifth — in opposition to visiting Michigan, Hawai’i at UC San Diego, School of Charleston at Stony Brook, Little Rock at Morehead State, Cornell at Dartmouth, Southern Miss (down 23-17 within the third earlier than successful 31-29) in opposition to Arkansas State, Northern Iowa at Valparaiso, North Florida in opposition to Stetson, Ohio over visiting Toledo, and Bowling Inexperienced, which beat Western Michigan for its second straight comeback after dropping the primary two units;
— No. 5 Stanford misplaced the third set to visiting NC State after which closed it out within the fourth 25-8;
— No. 3 Penn State went to Oregon and crushed the Geese and ended their 11-match successful streak;
— No. 25 Washington remained one of many three unbeatens with a sweep of Iowa;
— Navy broke by means of with a four-set win Patriot League win over Lehigh after opening with 13 losses.
Traces of the day: Talking of Ohio, Kam Hunt had 26 kills, two aces and 19 digs. And talking of Southern Miss, Aysu Dalogullari had 25 kills, an help, two aces, a block and 12 digs. LIU’s Camelia Melendez had 25 kills, 4 aces and 5 digs in a five-set win over Saint Francis. Tennessee Tech is 15-1 as Madolyn Isringhausen had 25 kills, hitting .309, with two assists, an ace and 15 digs in a five-set win over Western Illinois.
We even have the AVCA’s announcement of its 2024 corridor of fame class and it’s fairly stout: Barry Goldberg, Kathy Gregory, Hugh McCutcheon, and Joe Sagula.
That story and the NCAA key outcomes and high performances observe on this version of Volleyball At present.
However first a take a look at Saturday’s key matches in NCAA Division I volleyball:
NCAA volleyball Saturday
The ACC and SEC are off.
There are 4 Huge 12 matches, none greater than the Texas showdown of Baylor, No. 15 within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, at AVCA No. 22 TCU. UCF goes to Cincinnati, Iowa State is at Kansas State and Texas Tech is at Colorado.
There are three Huge 10 matches, together with No. 12 Minnesota going throughout city to USC. Michigan goes the identical when it goes to UCLA and Rutgers is at Maryland.
No. 23 Dayton returns to VCU for an additional A10 match because the 13-1 Flyers search their seventh win in a row.
The Huge West slate consists of Hawai’i at Lengthy Seaside State.
Winless watch: 0-13 Marist is residence for 3-12 Iona within the MAAC.
NCAA volleyball Friday
Pitt had gained its first 36 units earlier than Boston School surprised the visiting Panthers 25-23 within the first set. Pitt gained the subsequent three, 25-7, 25-9, 25-20 as Olivia Babcock jump-served the Eagles off the courtroom. She had 5 aces within the first set, 5 extra within the second, and completed with a program-record 12. Babcock, who hit .114, completed with 14 kills, an help, 5 blocks and 10 digs. Torrey Stafford had 14 kills, hit .321 and had three blocks and 7 digs. Pitt hit .163 and had 16 aces with solely 4 errors. BC had 26 kills however 27 errors to minus .010 and had one ace with 4 errors. Julia Haggerty led with eight kills, an help and 11 blocks …
Additionally within the ACC, the large end result was Virginia enhancing to 12-2, 2-1 within the ACC with a 25-22, 25-21, 25-22 sweep of visiting Florida State. Virginia defeated a ranked staff for under the third time in program historical past and at No. 16, that is the highest-ranked staff UVA has ever crushed. Elayna Duprey led with 14 kills, hitting .357, to go together with an ace and 6 digs; fourth-ranked Louisville hit .163 however nonetheless swept visiting Clemson as Anna DeBeer had 12 kills with no errors in 23 assaults, two aces, 11 digs and 4 blocks; No. 5 Stanford beat visiting NC State in 4, 25-8 in within the fourth; No. 16 SMU swept at Syracuse; No. 19 Georgia Tech rallied for a 22-25, 25-21, 20-25, 25-17, 15-13 victory at Notre Dame; North Carolina improved to 12-1, 3-0 with a sweep of visiting Duke; Miami swept Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest did the identical at Cal …
The Huge Ten was fairly an journey Friday. Penn State gained 25-19, 25-19, 25-17 at Oregon, which hit .075; No. 10 Purdue gained 23-25, 25-20, 25-16, 29-27 at Northwestern as Kenna Wollard had a career-high 18 kills whereas hitting .438. She had a complete of 75 kills in Purdue’s first 12 matches; Minnesota gained 25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 25-27, 15-10 at UCLA; USC had a 10-1 run within the fifth set of its 15-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-23, 15-12 victory over visiting Michigan, which had extra kills (64-57) and out-hit the Trojans .257-.190. Ally Batenhorst had 20 kills for USC to go together with two aces, three blocks and 6 digs, and Valentina Vaulet had 22 kills for the Wolverines to go together with an help, three aces, three blocks and three digs; Washington (13-0, 3-0), Pittsburgh and South Dakota State are the one groups left and not using a loss after the Huskies swept visiting Iowa; and Indiana beat visiting Michigan State in 4 …
Within the Huge 12, VBM No. 14 Arizona State beat visiting No. 20 BYU in 4 as Claire Jeter had 11 kills with one error in 19 assaults and three blocks; Utah hit .364 and swept at Arizona and Houston beat visiting West Virginia in 4 as Kate Georgiades had 23 digs, 4 assists and an ace …
No. 24 Auburn beat visiting Georgia in 4 within the SEC, the place LSU swept at Mississippi State and Ole Miss beat Tennessee in 4, the Rebels’ first win over Tennessee since 2019 …
Sixth-ranked Creighton hit .389 and swept Butler within the Huge East to enhance to 13-2, 4-0 …
No. 23 Dayton swept VCU to enhance to 13-1, 3-0 within the Atlantic 10 as Lexie Almodovar had 13 kills, hitting .435, and eight digs …
In Hawai’i’s five-set win at UC San Diego, Caylen Alexander had 24 kills, hit .373, and had an ace, 5 digs and a block … Cornell was down 14-10 within the fifth earlier than finishing the reverse sweep at Dartmouth 22-25, 16-25, 25-20, 25-21, 16-14. Eliza Konvicka had 22 kills, three of her staff’s 10 aces, 9 digs and 5 blocks … Evansville was swept by Belmont however Giulia Cardona had 23 of her staff’s 35 kills … Bucknell needed to win in 5 at American to enhance to 13-1, 5-0 within the Patriot League … Reagan Barth had 20 kills and hit .370 in Georgia Southern’s Solar Belt sweep at Marshall. She had two aces, 12 digs and a solo block because the Eagles improved to 12-1, 2-0 …
Within the CAA, Elon swept Hampton, which dropped the Pirates to 0-17; Charleston acquired 22 kills from Emily Banitt, who hit .373 and had 23 digs in her staff’s 21-25, 26-28, 25-17, 25-10, 15-9 comeback at Stony Brook; and in a totally entertaining match at Northeastern in Boston that we caught earlier than heading to Pitt-BC, Northeastern rallied for a 25-27, 25-16, 17-25, 27-25, 15-10 victory over visiting William & Mary through which Brynn Smith, who falls down lots, had 21 kills, her staff’s solely two aces, 9 digs and a block. It was the second most kills by a Northeastern freshman in program historical past.
AVCA declares corridor of fame class
The AVCA has certainly one of its strongest induction courses ever within the late American College coach Barry Goldberg, not solely tremendous profitable however one of the beloved figures in volleyball; legendary participant and coach Kathy Gregory; USA Olympic coach — for women and men — and former Minnesota coach Hugh McCutcheon; and Joe Sagula, whose teaching profession at Penn after which North Carolina included not solely success on the courtroom however a long time of contributions to the AVCA.
They are going to be inducted Thursday, December 19, throughout the 2024 AVCA Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, which coincides with the NCAA Division I Ladies’s Volleyball Championship.
Click on right here to learn the full AVCA story with bios on all 4 inductees.
