The VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll voters had a lot to consider when the volleyballs stopped bouncing this past weekend.
On Sunday alone, unranked NC State knocked off last week’s No. 5 Louisville; No. 7 Washington State won in five at No. 7 Oregon; Northwestern, which had lost four of its last five matches, got 33 kills from Julia Sangiacomo and pulled off a reverse sweep AT Purdue; surging USC won its ninth in a row; The Citadel won again to improve to 16-0; and Arizona State bounced back from its only loss behind 30 kills by Marta Levinska.
And all that came after a Saturday in which Penn State won in four at Minnesota and Nebraska, which won in five at Purdue on Friday, won in four at Indiana.
Sunday’s recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at what’s on tap in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball.
There are four matches on the Monday schedule, including Alcorn vs. Texas Southern and Southern vs. Prairie View in the SWAC. Southern Illinois goes to Missouri State in the Missouri Valley, and in the WAC Utah Tech plays host to Southern Utah.
Things are a little busier Tuesday, with 18 matches that Dayton at Duquesne in the Atlantic 10 and Western…
