NCAA Women
December 4, 2023
There are 16 teams left in the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament and they have a combined 75 losses.
The majority of them — with some notable exceptions — are to other teams in this remaining round of 16.
For example, No. 1 Nebraska’s loss was to No. 3 Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s were only in the Big Ten, to Nebraska, No. 11 Purdue and Penn State.
Second-ranked Stanford lost to Florida in August, to Nebraska in September and then only to Arizona State in the Pac-12.
Three of those 75 losses came on the first day of the season, way back on August 25, when No. 4 Pittsburgh lost in four to BYU at Montana, defending national-champion No. 7 Texas lost in four at Long Beach State and No. 8 Kentucky lost in four at Colorado State.
Our headline the next day:
“Upsets — Long Beach stuns Texas —…
