Stanford, the No. 3 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, handed Arizona State its first defeat by completely overwhelming the Sun Devils.
No. 7 Oregon lost the first set and then overpowered Washington.
No. 10 Texas beat No. 8 BYU in four again, AVCA No. 19 Kansas rallied to beat No. 20 Houston in five, and No. 23 Kentucky grinded to a five-set win over Georgia.
Second-ranked Nebraska stayed unbeaten after escaping at Purdue in a hard-fought five-setter. See our separate story from West Lafayette.
The line of the day: TCU’s Melanie Parra had 34 kills in a five-set win over Texas Tech to go with two assists, four aces, 14 digs and three blocks.
The recaps and top performances follow, but first a look at Saturday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule in which the ACC, Pac-12 and SEC are off.
In the Big Ten, Nebraska makes the short trip to Indiana, VBM No. 15 Penn State is at AVCA No. 13 Minnesota and Iowa is at Illinois.
The Big 12 has seven of its teams in action as Houston and Kansas go at it again, AVCA No. 18 Baylor is at Iowa State, Cincinnati is at Kansas State and West Virginia plays host to independent Chicago State.
AVCA No. 21 Dayton, which swept Fordham, plays the Rams again in the Atlantic 10.
Four winless…
