Lopsided victories.
Prime-ranked Pittsburgh demolished No. 12 Georgia Tech, successful 25-11, 25-17, 25-8 on the highway Sunday.
No. 2 Nebraska overpowered No. 20 USC.
And fourth-ranked Louisville not solely beat visiting No. 3 Stanford, the Cardinals swept the Cardinal.
No. 13 Kentucky didn’t sweep its SEC match at No. 15 Florida, however the Wildcats received in 4 on a walk-off ace by Brooklyn DeLeye, who had 24 kills.
The upset of the day was by Oklahoma, which knocked off visiting No. 20 Tennessee for its first victory over a ranked group since 2014.
Reverse sweeps? In fact, Michigan did it to visiting Rutgers and Texas A&M did it to visiting Missouri.
Strains of the day: Penn State’s Jess Mruzik had 29 kills in a four-set win over Michigan State, hitting .356 with two assists and 10 digs. Binghamton’s Tsvetelina Ilieva had 28 kills in a four-set win over LIU, Camyrn Luginbuhl had 24 kills in a Sacred Coronary heart sweep of Iona, and Jacksonville’s Breana McDoough had 22 kills in a sweep of North Florida.Â
The second VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot comes out later Monday morning and the AVCA releases its prime 25 within the afternoon. Issues will look totally different than final week.
Additionally later Monday, volleyball analyst extraordinaire Emily Ehman and VolleyballMag editor Lee Feinswog will get collectively for his or her weekly NCAA Zoom.
There are 4 SWAC matches Monday, one within the MEAC and one within the WAC. The 12 groups concerned have a mixed 41 victories.
Sunday’s NCAA volleyball recaps, prime performances
ACC
The massive match of the day was Stanford at Louisville of their first ACC encounter and the Cardinals dominated 25-16, 25-23, 25-22. Louisville (10-2, 2-0) received 28 kills from its exterior hitters as Stanford had a complete of 32 kills. Charitie Luper led with 18 kills, hitting .316, and had two blocks and 13 digs. Anna DeBeer had 10 kills, hit .304, and had an help and 12 digs. The Cardinals hit .248 and had two aces — each by Elle Glock — and 10 serving errors. Stanford (9-2, 2-1) hit .144 and had two aces and 13 errors. Elie Rubin, who hit .073, led the Cardinal with 9 kills, two assists, two blocks and 7 digs …Â
Pitt (12-0, 2-0) by no means gave Georgia Tech (8-3, 0-2) an opportunity because the Panthers hit .438. Olivia Babcock had 12 kills with one error in 23 assaults, 10 digs and 5 blocks, and Torrey Stafford had 11 kills with one error in 20 swings, two assists, an ace, six digs and two blocks. Georgia Tech had 24 kills and 24 errors to hit minus .043 …Â
No. 18 Florida State (10-2, 2-0) beat No. 25 Miami (9-4, 0-2) once more, this time sweeping in a hurricane-delayed match. Audrey Koenig led with 13 kills, hitting .324, and he or she had two aces, 5 digs and two blocks … No. 23 SMU (10-3, 2-0) swept at Clemson (8-5, 2-0) as Maya Tabron had 11 kills, hitting .393, to go together with three aces, 14 digs and two blocks, one solo … North Carolina (10-1, 2-0) beat visiting Boston School (7-7, 0-2) in 4 as Mabrey Shaffmaster had 19 kills, hit .308, and had an help, an ace, 13 digs and two blocks … NC State (7-3, 2-0) dealt visiting Virginia (11-2, 1-1) a four-set defeat regardless of hitting .029 … Wake Forest (9-4, 1-1) beat visiting Virginia Tech (6-6, 0-2), which hit .061, in 4 … Duke (6-7, 2-0) saved tempo with the leaders because the Blue Devils beat Syracuse (12-2, 0-2) in 4 because the Orange misplaced its second straight match after beginning 12-0. Duke’s Kerry Keefe had 21 kills with three errors in 42 assaults to hit .429 and had an help, an ace, 10 digs and a block.
Large Ten
Nebraska (12-1, 2-0) swept visiting USC (9-3, 1-1) 25-18, 25-22, 25-16 because the Huskers received their thirty third match in a row at dwelling and ninth in a row total this season. Harper Murray led with 12 kills — 9 within the second set — two assists, two aces and 6 digs, and Merritt Beason had 11 kills, two assists, an ace, 9 digs and two blocks. USC’s Ally Batenhorst, a graduate-student switch, led the Trojans with 13 kills in her return to her old-fashioned. She had 9 digs and a block ..Â
Penn State (12-1, 2-0), which misplaced solely to Pitt, got here away with a 23-25, 25-17, 25-21, 25-23 victory over visiting Michigan State (7-6, 0-2) as Jess Mruzik had 29 kills, hitting .356, to go together with 10 digs … UCLA (7-4, 1-1) beat visiting Ohio State (7-5, 0-2) in 4 behind 17 kills by Cheridyn Leverette, who had three digs and two blocks. … Michigan (12-1, 2-0) received all it may deal with from Rutgers (5-6, 0-2) earlier than coming away with a 22-25, 22-25, 25-22, 25-17, 17-15 reverse sweep victory. Allison Jacobs led the Wolverines with 25 kills, three assists, three blocks and 9 digs. Morgan Burke had 54 assists, an ace, a block and 9 digs. Alissa Kinkela led Michigan State with 24 kills, hitting .432, to go together with an help, two blocks and a match-high 14 digs.Â
SEC
Kentucky (7-6, 1-1) received 25-19, 25-20, 20-25, 30-28 at Florida (10-3, 1-1) as Brookyn DeLeye had 24 kills, hit .370, and had three assists, 5 aces — together with the match-ender — eight digs and three blocks, one solo. Brooke Bultema had 13 kills, hit .524, and had two blocks, one solo. Kennedy Martin was magnificent for Florida, with 25 kills — many from the again row — hitting .413 to go together with 5 aces, seven digs and two blocks …Â
Oklahoma (7-3, 1-1), which took Florida to 5 earlier than shedding its SEC opener, got here again and held on for a 27-25, 25-22, 19-25, 25-23 victory over Tennessee (8-4, 1-1). It was the primary time OU beat a ranked opponent since 2014. Alexis Shelton led with 19 kills, two blocks and 4 digs. Lydia Martin and Kari Geissberger had 14 kills apiece. Nina Cajic had 22 kills and hit .429 for Tennessee … No. 8 Texas (7-3, 2-0) swept at LSU (8-5, 0-2) … Arkansas (12-2, 2-0) swept visiting Ole Miss (10-3, 0-1) … Auburn (12-1, 2-0) battled to a four-set victory over visiting Alabama (8-5, 0-2) … And Texas A&M (10-2, 1-1) received 17-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 15-12 over visiting Missouri (9-4, 1-1) for its first reverse sweep since 2015. Emily Hellmuth led the Aggies with 19 kills, hitting .333, and he or she had 10 digs and three blocks. Logan Lednicky had 15 kills, hit .324 and had two assists, eight digs and two blocks. Missouri’s Mychael Vernon had 26 kills, hit .311, and added two assists, 11 digs and 4 blocks. Jordan Iliff had a Missouri rally-scoring ear file 9 aces to go together with 15 kills. She had seven of these aces in a row within the first set.
Across the nationÂ
No. 6 Creighton (11-2, 2-0) hit .471 and swept its Large East match towards visiting UConn (12-2, 0-2) which has now misplaced two in a row. Ava Martin had 12 kills with one error in 25 assaults and Norah Sis had 11 kills in 15 errorless swings. Every had two aces. Additionally within the Large East, Marquette swept Windfall and St. John’s did the identical to Georgetown to maintain tempo with Creighton …Â
In the one Large 12 match of the day, Utah (12-1, 2-0) held on for a five-set win over visiting Colorado (7-7, 0-2). 4 Utes had 10 or extra kills, 16 by Kamryn Gaiadio …Â
Within the largest CAA rivalry, Towson (12-2, 3-1) received in 5 at Delaware (7-4, 3-1) as Victoria Barrett had 23 kills within the 25-20, 18-25, 25-18, 27-29, 15-8 slugfest … Canisius not solely saved 0-12 Marist winless, however is off to a 2-0 begin within the MAAC for the primary time since 2021. Kara Zaucha had 16 kills, hit .382, and had an help, three aces, 10 digs and 4 blocks. Additionally within the MAAC, Saint Peters received 24 kills from Maliyah LaBrie in a five-set win over Quinnipiac, its first win over Quinnipiac in 9 years and first convention win in two years. Sacred Coronary heart received a whopping 24 kills from Camryn Luginbuhl in a sweep of Iona. Luginbuhnl, in setting this system file for kills in a three-set match, had two errors in 40 assaults to hit .550 and had 14 digs. She had 24 kills the day earlier than in a five-set win at Manhattan and earlier this season had 30 kills in a five-set win over Kent State …Â
All six American Athletic Convention matches and all three within the ASUN had been sweeps. In Jacksonville’s win at North Florida, Breana McDoough had 22 kills with three errors in 39 swings to hit .487 and he or she had seven digs, and within the victory by Queens at Stetson, Alleigh Johnson had 20 kills and hit .594 after having one error in 32 assaults … In Binghamton’s four-set win over LIU, Tsvetelina Ilieva had 28 kills, hitting .384, with an help, two aces and 13 digs … TaKenya Stafford had 22 kills for Coppin State in its five-set MEAC win over UMES, which received 21 kills from Mkemjika Ikemefuna … Bucknell is 12-1, 4-0 within the Patriot League, after a four-set win over Lehigh … In Samford’s five-set SoCon victory at Chattanooga, Kaleigh Meritt had 24 kills with 5 errors in 68 swings.
