The NCAA dropped its checklist of upcoming championships and that features websites for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons in ladies’s volleyball, males’s volleyball and seaside volleyball.
In NCAA Division I volleyball, unranked Arizona knocked off BYU, ranked No. 20 within the AVCA prime 25; and Kentucky, No. 13 within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, held off visiting Oklahoma in 5 because the pesky Sooners continued to take ranked SEC groups to the restrict.
Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona State and TCU all gained.
And Marist got here so shut, however the Pink Wolves misplaced in 5 at Siena to drop to 0-13.
Athletes Limitless begins its volleyball season on Thursday in Mesa, Arizona.
All of it follows on this version of Volleyball At the moment:
NCAA units volleyball championship websites
Margaritas on the River Stroll …
The NCAA introduced 240 national-championship websites throughout a mess of sports activities for the following few years, together with ladies’s volleyball, males’s volleyball and seaside volleyball.
The ladies are headed again to San Antonio for the 2026 NCAA Division I Ladies’s Volleyball Championship, the primary time in that Texas metropolis since 2011 when UCLA beat Illinois within the last. Then in 2027 it’s again to Columbus, Ohio, the place the ultimate 4 and AVCA conference have been carried out in 2016 and 2021.
The ultimate 4 is in Louisville this season and again in Kansas Metropolis (and the world’s greatest BBQ) in 2205.
The lads will play their championship in Las Vegas for the primary time when that occasion heads to Nevada in 2027 and 2028.
The match is in Columbus subsequent Could and at UCLA in 2026.
Seaside volleyball, which has solely been held in Gulf Shores, Alabama, heads to Huntington Seaside subsequent spring and in 2026, however returns to the Redneck Riveria in 2027 and 2028.
Click on right here for the full NCAA information launch.
NCAA volleyball Thursday
There are two Large 12 matches when Kansas, ranked No. 8 within the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, goes to Colorado, and Kansas State is at Texas Tech.
Three of the Large Ten’s ranked groups are in motion as No. 2 Nebraska goes to Illinois, No. 3 Penn State is house for Maryland and No. 11 Oregon is at Ohio State.
There are 4 unbeaten groups left, 3-0 South Dakota State, 12-0 Pittsburgh, 12-0 Washington and 9-0 San Jose State.
Two of them play Thursday when South Dakota State is house for Kansas Metropolis in The Summit League and San Jose State goes to Colorado State within the Mountain West.
Within the Solar Belt, Georgia Southern (10-1) opens convention play in opposition to Marshall (9-6. 0-2 and Arkansas State (12-2, 2-0) performs at Southern Miss (6-8, 2-0).
There’s a full slate within the West Coast Convention together with Loyola Marymount at Santa Clara.
The 5 matches within the Southland embody Southeastern Louisiana at McNeese.
Tennessee Tech, off to a 13-1 begin, performs back-to-back 2 p.m. first-serve Ohio Valley Convention house matches in opposition to Wesern Illinois.
Winless watch: 0-15 Hampton is house for a CAA match in opposition to Elon.
Arizona upsets BYU; Kentucky survives
Arizona (12-2, 1-2) not solely gained its first Large 12 match, however its 25-13, 23-25, 25-21,18-25, 15-13 victory over No. 20 BYU marked the primary time the Wildcats beat a ranked group in two years. Jaelyn Hodge led with 20 kills as she hit .340 and had an help, 5 blocks and 10 digs. Journey Tucker, who had 5 kills in 9 errorless assaults, had a career-high 11 blocks, one solo. Avery Scoggins had two kills, 40 assists, 4 of her group’s seven aces, a block and 12 digs. The Wildcats hit .241. BYU, which hit .168, bought 24 kills from Claire Little, who hit .302 and had three of her group’s eight aces, two blocks and a match-high 17 digs …
No. 14 Arizona State (13-2, 2-1 Large 12) beat visiting Utah (12-2, 2-1) as Savannah Kjolhede had 12 kills in 15 errorless assaults within the 17-25, 25-13, 25-19, 25-15 victory. Kjolhede had two digs and 5 blocks, one solo. Claire Jeter, who had one error in 27 assaults, and Geli Cyr, who had two errors in 35 swings, had 10 kills apiece. Jeter had two assists, two aces, 5 digs and 9 blocks, two solo, and Cyr had an help, an ace, three blocks and 17 digs. Mary Shroll had 23 digs, an help and two aces. Arizona State his .201. Utah, which hit .104, bought 12 kills from Kamryn Gibadio and 11 from Emrie Satuala …
No. 22 TCU (10-3, 2-1) additionally gained within the Large 12, coming away with a 25-21, 25-19, 21-25, 19-25, 15-7 victory at Houston (6-7, 1-2). Melanie Parra led the Horned Frogs with 22 kills, six blocks and 15 digs. Jalyn Gibson had 13 kills, hit .355, and had an help, an ace, 18 digs and 5 blocks. Houston’s Angela Grieve had 17 kills, an help, three aces and 14 digs. TCU hit .213 and Houston .160 …
Additionally within the Large 12, UCF swept visiting West Virginia and Iowa State defeated visiting Cincinnati in 4 …
Oklahoma (7-4, 1-2), picked eleventh within the SEC preseason coaches ballot, opened SEC play with a five-set loss to Florida, which needed to pull off a reverse sweep to win, then the Sooners upset previously ranked Tennessee in 4, earlier than dropping in 5 Wednesday at No. 13 Kentucky (8-6, 2-1). The Wildcats bought 25 kills — six within the fifth set — from Brooklyn DeLeye within the 25-21, 23-25, 23-25, 25-18. 15-13 victory. DeLeye hit .385 and had a block and 10 digs however had no aces and 5 serving errors. Molly Tuozzo had 20 digs, seven assists and 4 aces, and Emma Grome had three kills in six errorless tries, 41 assists, an ace, 4 blocks and eight digs. Her group hit .216. OU, which hit .243 and had two aces and 16 serving errors, bought 17 kills from Alexis Shelton and 14 from Kamile Gibson. Kari Geissberger had eight kills however hit .000 and had seven blocks. Kelli Jo Burgess had six kills with one error in 13 swings and eight blocks. Oklahoma not solely had a greater hitting proportion, it held a 15-0 blocks benefit, yet another kill than Kentucky (59-58) and extra digs (53-46) …
Additionally within the SEC, Texas (8-3, 2-0) hit .364 and swept visiting South Carolina (9-4, 0-2) as Jenna Wenaas had 13 kills within the 25-23, 25-23, 25-21 victory. She hit .324 and had two assists, two aces, two blocks and 6 digs. Madi Skinner had 11 kills, hit .563, and added an help, a block and 6 digs. South Carolina’s Alayna Johnson had 16 kills and Riley Whitesides had 13 …
In the one Large Ten match, Wisconsin (8-4, 2-1) swept at Rutgers (5-9, 0-3) because the Badgers hit .370 within the 25-18, 25-14, 25-18 consequence. Sarah Franklin had 12 kills, 5 digs and a block …
The lone ACC match noticed North Carolina enhance to 11-1, 3-0 with a 25-16, 25-21, 25-23 sweep at Duke (6-8, 2-1). UNC, which hit .333, bought 11 kills from Chelsea Thorpe, who hit .500 and had a block and 5 digs. Mabrey Shaffmaster had 10 kills, hit .353, an had an help, two of her group’s eight aces and 11 digs. Duke’s Kerry Keefe had 13 kills with one error in 29 assaults, an help, two blocks and 4 digs …
UAlbany hit .361 in its sweep of Le Moyne as Shynelle Woroniuk had 15 kills, hit .306, and had an help, 4 of her group’s 10 aces, 10 digs and a block … Rider hit .455 in its MAAC sweep at Saint Peters. The Broncos had 43 kills with eight errors in 77 swings. Paige Giehtbrock had 13 kills, hit .400 and had 4 aces, 5 digs and a block, and Brynn Johnson had 10 kills with no errors in 14 assaults to go together with three digs and two blocks …
And Siena (2-12, 1-2 MAAC) stored visiting Marist (0-13, 0-3) winless as 4 gamers had 10 or extra kills within the 24-26, 25-23, 25-18, 19-25, 15-12 victory, 17 by Salme Adeele Hollas. She hit .382 and had an help, two aces, two solo blocks and 11 digs.
Athletes Limitless begins fourth season
AU will get underway in Mesa, Arizona, as professional volleyball gamers start a five-week season through which they play for particular person factors and every week new groups are drafted.
Motion begins at 8 p.m. Japanese when Workforce (Morgan) Hentz performs Workforce (Natalia) Valentin-Anderson, adopted by Workforce (Brooke) Nuneviller vs. Workforce (Bethania) De La Cruz at 10:30 p.m.
The matches will be seen on Bally Sports activities regional networks and on Volleyball World TV.
Excellent news for viewers: Kevin Barnett is again because the play-by-play man and people duties will even be dealt with by one of many higher announcers chances are you’ll not know, Greg Mescall.
For extra: https://auprosports.com/volleyball/schedule/2024/
