The only ranked team in action, BYU, blasted visiting Iowa State in the Big 12 on a Thursday night in which Omaha’s eight-match Summit League win streak ended and Pepperdine won a big West Coast Conference match.
The recaps and top performances follow — including 29 kills by UNLV’s Isabel Martin in a losing effort — but first a look at Friday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule, one with a handful of key matches.
While the college volleyball world awaits Saturday’s Big Ten showdown between No. 1 Wisconsin at No. 2 Nebraska, the only other unbeaten, The Citadel, plays host to Samford. The Citadel is 20-0, 8-0 in the SoCon.
There are three B1G matches when No. 11 Penn State plays host to Iowa, Rutgers is at Minnesota and Illinois goes to Maryland.
The SEC has a showcase match when second-place No. 12 Tennessee (16-2, 7-1) goes to league-leading No. 7 Arkansas (17-2, 7-0). The battle behind them could tighten as AVCA No. 20 Kentucky (8-7, 6-1) tries to keep pace when it entertains Mississippi State (9-8, 2-5), VBM No. 15 Florida (12-4, 4-3) is at Texas A&M (14-4, 6-2) and Missouri (12-7, 4-4) is at AVCA No. 23 Auburn…
