Finally.
This is the day when the top two teams in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll face off: Top-ranked Wisconsin goes to No. 2 Nebraska in a battle of Big Ten teams that are each 18-0 overall and 9-0 in the Big Ten.
But we can’t get to that before talking about another freaky Friday, in which No. 4 Washington State lost at unranked USC, which pulled off a late-night Pac-12 reverse sweep. Or that No. 5 Louisville had to pull off an ACC reverse sweep of its own to win at Wake Forest. Or that No. 7 Arkansas won in four at Tennessee in the SEC, or that unranked Missouri swept at AVCA No. 23 Auburn.
The Citadel swept Samford to improve to 21-0, 9-0 in the SoCon and plays at Chattanooga Saturday,, and Le Moyne finally broke through as the 1-17 Dolphins beat Stonehill in the NEC.
Line of the day: Purdue Fort Wayne’s Panna Ratkai, a redshirt-freshman outside hitter from Hungary, had 35 kills in a five-set loss to Milwaukee, most kills in the Horizon League since 2011. And she also had four aces, three blocks and seven digs.
Worth noting: Paige Briggs, who not only had 14 kills and hit .522, had 10 aces in Western Kentucky’s sweep…
