Volleyball Today: AVP league teams set; NCAA roundup; Aird’s challenges; NAIA top 25

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The AVP announced the teams for its new league and there will be Paris Olympians in Austin, Dallas, New York. Palm Beach and San Diego. The full list follows.

There are 47 matches on Thursday’s NCAA Division I volleyball schedule but surprisingly few between unbeaten teams in only the season’s second week. The schedule was light Wednesday but including No. 5 Stanford sweeping at No. 24 Marquette, No. 13 Kansas sweeping Wichita State and Furman pulling off a reverse sweep at USC Upstate.

Texas State beat UTSA in four sets, which included coming back from being down 24-16 in the first set.

We have a really cool thing that Indiana coach Steve Aird is doing this season with his challenges, and the latest NAIA poll.

AVP announces teams for new beach league

The AVP is trying something new with its league. The first set of matches is September 14-15 at the UCLA Tennis Center, followed by seven more stops, culminating with the championship November 9-10 in Los Angeles. Click here for the complete schedule and more details. 

For the sake of simplicity, here are the eight teams in the AVP League:

(These four teams will compete in the first week of the AVP…

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