If you read these NCAA Division I women’s volleyball roundups regularly, you know there haven’t been too many times when we’ve led with Rutgers, The Citadel and Lamar.
But here you go.
Rutgers beat a ranked team for the first time ever when the Scarlet Knights knocked off visiting Minnesota, No. 16 in both the VolleyballMag.com Super Media Poll AVCA top 25; The Citadel continued the unbeaten start to its best season ever to improve to 18-0; and Lamar got it first victory of the season after starting 0-17.
The line of the day: Northwestern’s Julia Sangiacomo had 32 kills, an assist, two blocks and 11 digs in a five-set win at Michigan State.
Also Saturday, Penn State had to rally to beat visiting Ohio State, BYU’s Erin Livingston went off at Oklahoma, and it starts all over again with a super schedule on tap for Sunday.
The Saturday recaps and top peformances follow, but first a look at a Sunday that has six Pac-12 matches, including the big one when No. 3 Stanford goes to No. 4 Washington State. Stanford is 12-2, 5-0 in the conference, while WSU is 14-1 and also 5-0. Stanford, which leads the overall series 68-4, has won the last 11 matches, a streak started in…
