The ACC saved its wildest for final, making certain that the NCAA Division I volleyball common season would finish with a bang.
And did it ever.
To wit:
Unranked NC State all however assured itself an at-large NCAA tourney bid with a five-set, reverse-sweep upset at No. 9 SMU;
No. 6 Stanford knocked off visiting No. 3 Louisville;
High-ranked Pittsburgh, which has gained 14 in a row, got here fairly near coming into the event with a loss earlier than the Panthers obtained previous No. 19 Georgia Tech in 5, 17-15 within the fifth.
There was extra.
Within the SEC, Georgia upset No. 16 Florida in 4, sending the Gators into the event on a two-match dropping skid and all however making certain they won’t get a top-16 seed;
No. 13 Texas needed to go 5 to carry off visiting Ole Miss, additionally profitable 17-15 within the fifth after trailing 13-7.
Three extra NCAA bids had been claimed when No. 5 Creighton gained the Massive East, Hawai’i gained the Massive West and Colorado State gained the Mountain West tournaments.
This, in fact, is the day we’ve all been ready for. No, not a Sunday with no matches, however the 6 p.m. Japanese NCAA Match choice present on ESPN.
We are going to have a narrative posted right here ASAP after which quickly after, we’ll put up our annual Zoom with ESPN and Massive Ten Community analyst Emily Ehman and tourney contributors from across the nation, together with NCAA Division I volleyball committee chair Danielle Josetti of Marquette.
Additionally on this version of Volleyball At this time:
— The KPI is an element within the NCAA choice course of and the MasterCoaches are throughout it. We’ve obtained the hyperlink beneath.
— People Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez gained the Volleyball World Professional Seashore Tour Nuvali Problem within the Philippines.
— And Micha Hancock had fairly a scare in August, hours after getting her Olympic silver medal. There’s a hyperlink to a function on the LOVB Houston setter.
NCAA volleyball Saturday
ACC: NC State (16-12, 11-9) got here away with an improbably 15-25, 22-25, 25-14, 25-18, 17-15 victory at SMU (24-7, 16-4). It left NC State with a RPI of 35 and KPI of 42, whereas SMU, certain to be a top-16 seed, is No. 7 within the RPI and ninth in KPI. Amanda Rice led the Wolfpack with 23 kills, 5 digs and six blocks, one solo. Ava Brizard had 16 kills, three blocks and 9 digs. Jada Allen had six kills with one error in 11 assaults and 10 blocks, one solo. NC State gained regardless of hitting .179 and having 19 serving errors towards 5 aces, three by setter Naomi Cabello, who had six blocks, eight digs and 45 assists. Skye Stokes had 24 digs and 9 assists. SMU’s Naya Shime had 20 kills, 4 blocks and 10 digs. Her teammates mixed for 28 kills and 24 errors …
Stanford (25-4, 17-3), which was swept at Louisville (25-5, 17-3) earlier this season, battled to a 25-23, 25-22, 27-29, 27-25 victory over the visiting Cardinals as the 2 groups tied for second, two video games again of Pitt. Stanford is now at No. 4 within the RPI and KPI, whereas Louisville is No. 3 within the RPI and No. 6 within the KPI as each groups hope for one of many coveted top-four seeds.
Stanford’s Elia Rubin had a career-high 22 kills, hitting .326, and had two assists, a block and 14 digs. Jordyn Harvey had 18 kills, hit .302 and had an ace, two blocks and a dig. Setter Kami Miner had 4 kills, 60 assists, an ace, 15 digs and5 blocks, one solo. Elena Oglivie had 24 digs and three assists. The Cardinal hit .273 and had two aces and 14 errors. Anna DeBeer led Louisville with 16 kills, hitting .350, and had two assists, two blocks and 14 digs. Charitie Luper had 15 kills, an help, an ace and 9 digs. Cara Cresse, who had 10 kills and hit .333, had an ace, a dig and 5 blocks. Louisville hit .255 and had three aces and 13 errors …
Pitt (29-1, 19-1) held off visiting Georgia Tech (20-9, 12-8) 25-10, 24-26, 25-13, 18-25, 17-15. The Panthers stayed No. 1 in each the RPI and KPI, whereas Georgia Tech is twenty fifth within the RPI and twenty sixth within the KPI. Olivia Babcock had 18 kills however 9 errors, an help, two aces, 10 blocks and 12 digs. Torrey Stafford had 16 kills, hit .389, and added an help, eight digs andtwo blocks, one solo. Bre Kelley had 15 kills, hit .480, and had 9 blocks and three digs. Setter Rachel Fairbanks had three kills with no errors in 5 tries, 46 assists, an ace, a block and 10 digs.
Tamara Otene had 19 kills for GT, which hit .114. She added an help, a block and 20 digs. Bianca Bertolino had 14 kills, an help, three aces, 10 digs and three blocks, one solo …
Boston Faculty ended its season with a five-set victory at Virginia as Julia Hagerty, the nationwide chief in blocks, had 12 kills with no errors in 21 assaults to hit .471 and had seven blocks, three solo …
Cal completed with a four-set win over visiting Notre Dame as Maggie Li had 21 kills, an help, 4 aces, two blocks andseven digs.
BIG TEN: High-ranked Nebraska (29-2, 19-1) gained in 4 at Maryland (14-17, 5-15) to complete in a tie with Penn State, to which it misplaced the day earlier than. Nebraska had a season-high 20 blocks within the 25-27, 25-14, 25-8, 25-12 victory at Maryland, which drew a program-record crowd of 13,071. Merritt Beason led with 19 kills, hitting .471, to go together with an ace, 4 digs and 10 blocks, one solo. Harper Murray had 12 kills, two aces, three blocks and 4 digs and the 2 middles went block loopy as Andi Jackson, who had seven kills, had eight blocks, two solo, and Rebekah Allick, who had six kills, had 11, two solo. Bergen Reilly had a kill in her solely attempt, 43 assists, two blocks and 14 digs. Maryland hit minus .059 …
No. 6 Wisconsin (23-6, 17-3) completed alone in third, a recreation forward of Purdue, with a 25-19, 26-28, 25-19, 25-18 win over visiting Michigan State (13-18, 6-14). Sarah Franklin had 23 kills, hit .316, and added three assists, two aces, 5 blocks and eight digs. The opposite outdoors, Julia Orzol, had 13 kills, three aces, two blocks and 19 digs, and Carter Sales space had 9 kills, hit .389, and had an help and 9 blocks. Setter Charlie Feurbringer had three kills, 46 assists, six blocks and 12 digs.
SEC: Texas (18-6, 13-3) survived 26-28, 27-25, 25-23, 21-25, 17-15 towards visiting Ole Miss (17-11, 7-9), making certain it will stay at top-16 seed. Texas (RPI 11, KPI 7), down 8-3, pulled to 8-7 within the fifth set earlier than Ole Miss went on a 5-0 run. The Longhorns confronted match level 5 occasions earlier than rallying for the victory. They performed with out main attacker Madi Skinner, stated to be beneath the climate however with the workforce sporting a masks. Devin Kahahawai, beginning in her place, had a career-high 19 kills, hit .313 and had 10 digs. Reagan Rutherford had 16 kills, 4 blocks and three digs, and Jenna Wenaas had 13 kils, two assists, an ace, a block and 17 digs. Averi Carlson had a kill, 58 assists, two aces and 15 digs. Nia Washington had 30 kills for Ole Miss, 46 within the RPI and 39 within the KPI. Washington had an help, an ace, 10 digs and three blocks, one solo. Mokihana Tufono had three kills in 5 errorless tries, 59 assists, an ace, 17 digs and two blocks, one solo …
Georgia (12-14, 6-10) ended its season with a four-set win over visiting Florida (21-7, 11-5). Sophie Fisher, who hit .429, had 14 kills, an ace, seven blocks and two digs. Erykah Lovett additionally had 14 kills and added two blocks and eight digs. The Gators obtained 27 of their 51 kills from Kennedy Martin, who hit .412 and had six blocks and 11 digs. Her teammates mixed for twenty-four kills and 18 errors …
No. 24 Missouri (20-8, 11-5) ended visiting Auburn’s (14-13, 4-12) season with a sweep as Mychael Vernon and Jordan Ilieff had 14 kills every … Texas A&M l(19-7, 10-6) swept at South Carolina (16-11, 7-9) to go away the Gamecocks in NCAA limbo. They’ve an RPI of 44 and a KPI of 33.
BIG EAST: Creighton can definitely make declare to an unlikely top-four seed as a result of the Bluejays (29-5), who’ve gained 22 in a row, manhandled Marquette (23-8) within the Massive East Championshp title match. Creighton, which has gained the Massive East 10 of the final 11 years, obtained 10 kills apiece from outsides Norah Sis and Ava Martin within the 25-14, 25-16, 25-19 victory. Martin had 5 of her workforce’s 9 aces. Marquette’s Aubrey Hamilton had 19 kills. Creighton is sixth within the RPI and fifth within the KPI. Marquette, RPI 17, KPI 23, will get an at-large.
BIG WEST: Hawai’i (21-9) did some nervous at-large hopefuls a favor by beating top-seeded Cal Poly in 4 to win the Massive West Championship. The second-seeded Rainbow Wahine gained 25-19, 25-19, 27-29, 25-22 obtained 14 kills every from Caylen Alexander and Miliana Sylvester, who hit .464 and had six blocks. Alexander, who had 11 errors. however additionally an ace, 4 digs and 5 blocks, one solo, is now the nationwide chief in kills with 588. Kate Lang had three kills in 5 errorless tries, 42 assists, an ace, 10 digs and a block.
MOUNTAIN WEST: High-seeded Colorado State (20-10) gained the league’s automated bid with a four-set win over second-seeded San Jose State (20-1), which, hopefully, takes the Spartans out of the information. Malaya Jones had 26 kills, hit .429, and had 9 digs and three blocks, one solo. Blaire Fleming led SJSU with 17 kills, an ace, three digs and a block.
WEST COAST: Loyola Marymount, which gained the convention by two video games, gained in 4 at Washington State as Sophia Meyers had 13 kills, three aces, a block and 13 digs. San Diego (RPI 52 RPI, KPI 54) and Pepperdine (RPI 49, KPI 69 ), which tied for second, maintain slim hopes of at-large bids. San Diego swept visiting Saint Mary’s as Nemo Seashore had 14 kills, hit .344, and had a block and a dig. Pepperdine swept visiting Oregon State as Birdie Hendrickson had 20 kills, an help, an ace, a block and 14 digs. Pacific ended its season with a reverse-sweep win over visiting Portland as Alexa Edwards had 23 kills, an ace, two blocks and 16 digs within the 28-30, 19-25, 25-18, 25-19, 15-9 comeback.
BIG 12: In the one match, Houston swept visiting Colorado within the season-ender for each groups.
MasterCoaches and KPI
Talking of the NCAA choice present, the MasterCoaches — Bob Bertucci, Jim Stone, Tom Hilbert and Mick Haley —spend this week’s episode with Kevin Pauga, the founding father of the KPI.
They speak about how the KPI is calculated, the way it differs from the RPI and utilizing the KPI to fill out the bracket. Click on right here to observe.
Molly Shaw, Toni Rodriguez win gold in Philippines
Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez, who gained silver in Haikou, China, and bronze in Chennai, India, took residence gold Sunday in Nuvali, Philippines, for his or her third medal in as many tournaments on their lengthy street journey.
The USA pair, who took residence $10,000 for his or her efforts, defeated Brecht Piersma and Noa Sonneville of the Netherlands 24-22, 17-21, 15-10 within the ultimate
People Kylie Deberg and Hailey Harward, who gained silver in Chennai, and Piper Ferch and Madison Shields tied for seventh.
Madelyne Anderson and Brook Bauer tied for thirteenth and Carly Kan and Devanne Sours and Alaina Chacon and Molly Phillips tied for nineteenth.
Elmer Andersson and Jacob Nilsson of Sweden beat Paul Henning and Lui Wust of Germany within the males’s ultimate. The high-finishing People had been Chaim Schalk and Shaw’s husband, James, who tied for seventh. Theo Brunner and Taylor Crabb tied for thirteenth.
Celebrating 20/20: Micha Hancock’s Restoration
You would possibly take pleasure in this story on USA Olympian Micha Hancock, the previous Penn State star who, together with Jordan Larson, was in a automotive wreck the evening after they obtained their Olympic silver medals in Paris final August.
Hancock, luckily, is all healed and able to go because the setter for LOVB Houston.
