Regular season ends: FSU ties for ACC title; S. Carolina upsets Vols; Creighton, UH win tourneys

Three months to the day after it started, the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball regular season ended with a flourish Saturday.

Back on August 25, the tone was set. 

That was the opening day that Long Beach State, which won’t make the NCAA Tournament, stunned Texas. Colorado State, which won’t make the tournament, beat Kentucky. A then-full-rostered Florida beat Penn State. Nebraska swept Utah State. At-large lock Utah State, who knew? BYU beat Pittsburgh. UTEP beat Washington. 

Yeah, it was going to be that kind of season.

And it was, right through Saturday, when unranked South Carolina hit .488 and not only beat Tennessee, the No. 9 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16, it swept the visiting Vols. Tennessee will be a top-16 host. South Carolina had lost its previous three matches and seven of nine.

Kentucky?…