Three conference leaders — Colorado State, Bowling Green and UC Davis — won their matches Tuesday in NCAA Division I volleyball.
There were just 14 matches on the schedule and not one went five sets, which means it was a rare reverse-sweep day.
Lines of the day: Lindenwood’s Rebecca Janke had 26 kills in an OVC win over Western Illinois as she hit .458 after having four errors in 48 attacks to go with a solo block.Â
Winthrop’s Avery Jolley had 20 of her team’s 45 kills in a Big South sweep at UNC Asheville. She had one error in 45 attacks to hit .422 and had an assist, an ace, two blocks and seven digs.
It’s an all-NCAA edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Wednesday
All eyes will be on the Big 12 when Kansas, ranked No. 6 in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll, goes to No. 9 Arizona State. It can be seen on ESPN+ at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Kansas is 20-1, 11-0 in the conference since getting swept at Creighton on September 21. The Jayhawks have lost just six sets in league play. ASU, 22-2, is 10-1 in the conference. The lone loss was at Baylor on September 27. The Sun Devils have won 10 in a row.
Also in the Big 12, AVCA No. 17 Baylor (15-6, 7-3) is at Texas Tech (12-11, 4-7), Utah (17-5, 7-4) is at Colorado (10-13, 3-8), Houston (10-10, 5-5) is at Iowa State (9-12, 3-7) and Kansas State (8-11) is at Arizona. (13-8, 2-8).
There are two SEC matches. Reeling Texas (12-6, 7-3), which has lost three five-set matches in a row — at home — goes to Mississippi State (10-8, 4-5). Texas, which has won the last two NCAA titles and is in its first year in the SEC, is tied for third with idle Florida. Kentucky leads at 8-2 and Missouri is in second a half game back. Missouri (16-5, 7-2), which has won seven in a row, is home for Georgia (9-11, 3-7). That one is on the SEC Network.
The lone ACC match has Virginia Tech (7-15, 1-11) at Virginia (17-6, 7-5). Virginia is having its best overall start since 2003 and best ACC start since going 8-4 in 2005.
The only Big East match has Marquette (17-6, 11-1), a game back of idle No. 5 Creighton, at Butler (6-18, 4-6).Â
Mercer (20-4, 10-1), which has won seven in a row in the SoCon, goes to last-place West Carolina.
Mississippi Valley plays Jackson State in the SWAC and ASUN-leading FGCU goes to FIU of Conference USA on a day with just 13 matches.
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
Colorado State (15-8, 11-2) built its lead to one game over idle San Jose State (13-3, 10-3) with a 24-26, 25-21, 25-19, 25-22 victory at Wyoming (14-9, 6-6). Karina Leber led the Rams with 18 kills, hit .519, and had three blocks and two digs. Malaya Jones added 14 kills, an ace, a block and 12 digs, and Naeemah Weathers had 12 kills, hit .556, and had a solo block. Emery Herman had five kills, 52 assists, three blocks and nine digs …Â
Bowling Green (17-8, 12-2) won its seventh in a row and kept its one-game lead in the MAC with a four-set win over visiting Toledo (15-11, 8-6). Lauryn Hovey led with 18 kills and hit .457 after having two errors in 35 swings to go with three assists. BGSU, which hit .336, got 13 kills from Mia Tyler, who had three digs and two blocks, and Lindsey LaPinta had 24 digs and three assists. Toledo’s Taylor Alt had 16 kills, an assist, an ace, six digs and two blocks, one solo … Central Michigan (20-6, 11-3) kept pace with a 25-18, 25-18, 19-25, 25-20 win at Eastern Michigan (131-15, 7-7) behind 18 kills from Lauren Schrock, who hit .385 … Ohio (12-13, 8-6) swept at Kent State (2-22, 1-13) as Anna Kharchynska had 14 kills with one error in 26 attacks to hit .500 … and Western Michigan (14-11, 10-4) swept at NIU (3-21, 1-13). Keona Salesman had 15 kills with one error in 34 attacks to hit .412 and added three digs and a block …Â
UC Davis (15-7, 10-3) took a half-game Big West lead over idle Hawai’i (15-7, 9-3) with 25-17, 25-20, 18-25, 25-22 victory at UC Riverside (8-18, 3-10). Jade Light led the Aggies with 18 kills, two assists and nine digs. Ximena Cordero Barr had 20 digs, two assists and two aces. UCR’s Trinity Sheridan had 15 kills, an ace, seven digs and two blocks …Â
The three Southland matches were sweeps. Texas A&M-Commerce hit .365 and beat visiting Northwestern State as Kitana Tuufuli had 19 kills with no errors in 34 swings to hit .559 and added seven digs and a block. Houston Christian beat UIW as Audrey Pearce had 11 kills with one error in 22 attacks to hit .455 to go with two assists, an ace, three digs and four blocks. And McNeese won at Nicholls behind 17 kills from McKenzie Moore, who had an ace, 10 digs and four blocks, one solo …Â
There were two ASUN matches as Eastern Kentucky beat visiting Bellarmine in four as the Colonels hit .345 and had two kills each from Sarah Mitchell and AG Vandagriff and Lipscomb swept visiting Austin Peay …Â
In the lone Big South match, Winthrop swept at UNC Asheville as Avery Jolley had 20 kills with one error in 46 attacks to hit .422 to go with an assist, an ace, two blocks and seven digs …Â
Lindenwood won the only OVC match in four over visiting Western Illinois as Rebecca Janke had 26kills, hit .458, and had a solo block. WIU’s Keyana Cruse had 20 kills, 22 digs and a solo block …Â
LIU of the NEC swept visiting UAlbany of America East as Belia Correia had 11 kills with one error in 25 attacks to hit .400 to go with three digs and three blocks, one solo.
MasterCoaches
The gang of Bob Bertucci, Mick Haley, Tom Hilbert and Jim Stone, four retired coaching icons, spend this week’s episode discussing current events in NCAA Division I volleyball.
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