Cincinnati beat a ranked team for the first time since 2019 when the Bearcats won in five Thursday at No. 24 BYU in the Big 12.
Fifth-ranked Penn State had another statement victory, this time a sweep of visiting No. 10 Purdue.
Conference play continued and among the victors was UT Arlington, whose first-round WAC victory extended its winning streak to 18.
Northern Colorado won the Big Sky regular-season title and the races tightened in the Big West and West Coast Conference.
And there were two more coaching casualties.
It’s all in this NCAA edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Friday
There are plenty of key regular-season matches, but we’ll start with postseason tournaments.
Action begins in the American Athletic, America East, Atlantic 10, Big South, Conference, Horizon, Ivy League, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, NEC, Southland Conference and SWAC. Included in that bit of alphabet soup is Southeastern Louisiana of the Southland, which goes for its 25th victory in a row; No. 15 Dayton, which goes for win No. 22 in a row in the A10; and Western Kentucky, which aims for its 22nd in a row in Conference USA.
Tournaments continue in the ASUN, Patriot League, SoCon, Sun Belt and WAC.
In the ACC, the match of the day has…
