Now it’s up to the Big Ten to keep pace with the ACC.
The ACC and its two-top-seeded teams, Pittsburgh and Louisville, grabbed spots Saturday in the NCAA volleyball national semifinals and will play each other Thursday.
Sunday, the Big Ten is guaranteed at least one place on the other side of the bracket when Nebraska plays Wisconsin. But will the winner play another Big Ten team in Penn State? Or the Big East’s Creighton?
Pitt advanced with a sweep of Kentucky, while Louisville moved on by ousting another ACC school, Stanford.
Lynn of Boca Raton, Florida, beat San Francisco State in five to win the NCAA Division II national championship, and Bowling Green pulled off a reverse sweep and knocked out St. John’s to advance to the NIVC title match, where it plays Arizona on Tuesday.
It’s all in this edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA Tournament Sunday
ABC saved the Sunday 3 p.m. Eastern slot for Nebraska and the network could not have asked for more, since the Huskers (32-2) play host to Wisconsin (26-6) in one of the fiercest rivalries — and one the general public likely knows best — in the college game.
Nebraska swept both their meetings, 25-21, 25-22, 25-19 in Madison on November…
