Whenever the Interstate 15 rivals get together you can expect a good one and Saturday was no exception as No. 24 BYU rallied to beat visiting No. 20 Utah 25-21, 25-27, 23-25, 25-23, 15-12.
Just five other ranked teams played and they all won, including No. 10 Purdue, which set a home Big Ten attendance record as 14,876 saw the Boilermakers sweep visiting Indiana.
There’s a busy slate Sunday, including No. 5 Stanford at No. 1 Pittsburgh in the ACC, and Athletes Unlimited has a couple more matches.
There were, of course, reverse sweeps in this season of the reverse sweep: Villanova did it at Providence, IU Indianapolis did it at Youngstown State, Little Rock did at Tennessee State and Utah Valley did it to California Baptist.
Lines of the day: Pacific’s Alexa Edwards had 35 kills, three aces, 18 digs and five blocks, two solo, in a five-set WCC win at San Francisco.
Speaking of Utah Valley, Sami Blackett had 33 kills, hit .338, and had two assists, three aces, seven digs and seven blocks in that five-set WAC win over CBU.
Evansville’s Giulia Cardona continues to put up big numbers. When the Purple Aces beat Missouri State in four in the Missouri Valley, she had 30 kills, hit .310, and had an…
