No. 15 Penn State kept its Big Ten “0” intact before a hostile house of more than 5,000 in a tense four-setter with No. 13 Minnesota in the only match involving teams ranked in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll.
Elsewhere on a busy Saturday night, undefeated Nebraska survived a first-set speed bump against Indiana, which set a program attendance record at its Wilkinson Hall; Cincinnati recorded its initial victory as a member of the Big 12; while Iowa State, Marquette, Dayton, Virginia Commonwealth and Rice remained unbeaten in their respective conferences.
The stat line of the night went to Xavier’s Carrigan O’Reilly, who scored the winning kill in a 17-15 fifth set during a Big East victory at Georgetown. That punctuated an effort that saw the Musketeers setter rap 10 kills on 21 attempts (with one error), dish out 35 assists, make 11 digs and get four blocks (one solo). The triple-double was the third of the graduate student’s career. O’Reilly became the only active D-I setter to have reached the milestones of 500 kills and 1,000 digs.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Sunday’s NCAA Division I women’s…
