Volleyball Today: B1G win for Purdue; big NCAA Sunday ahead

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Washington’s Madi Ensley tries to get past the block of Laynie Smith, left, and Ashlyn Philpot of Illinois/Stephen Burns photo

Purdue aced a big test at Minnesota and Iowa is tied for the Big Ten lead.

South Dakota State is 13-0 after its four-set Summit League win at Denver and Washington won again to get to 12-0.

The line of the day was pretty stout:  In Coastal Carolina’s sweep of Marshall Jalyn Stout had 18 kills, hit .519, and had 13 assists, two aces, 16 digs and three blocks.

Sunday will be a volleyball-watcher’s dream with a loaded schedule. That and the key results and top performances follow in this all-NCAA edition of Volleyball Today. 

NCAA volleyball Sunday

When the ACC brought in Stanford and Cal, we knew, at the least, Stanford would play Pittsburgh and Louisville. The first of those matches is Sunday when No. 3 Stanford is at No 4 Louisville. There are eight other ACC matches, including No. 1 Pitt at No. 12 Georgia Tech, the rescheduled No. 18 Florida State at No. 25 Miami. No. 22 SMU at Clemson and Cal at Notre Dame. Also, Syracuse tries to bounce back from its first loss when it goes to Duke, Boston College is at 9-1 North Carolina, 11-1 Virginia is at NC State and Virginia Tech is at Wake Forest. 

The four Big Ten matches show No. 2 Nebraska home for No….

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