Volleyball Today: Future NCAA sites; big win for Arizona; AU gets underway

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Barakat Rahmon goes high for Houston against TCU/Houston photo

The NCAA dropped its list of upcoming championships and that includes sites for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons in women’s volleyball, men’s volleyball and beach volleyball. 

In NCAA Division I volleyball, unranked Arizona knocked off BYU, ranked No. 20 in the AVCA top 25; and Kentucky, No. 13 in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll, held off visiting Oklahoma in five as the pesky Sooners continued to take ranked SEC teams to the limit.

Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona State and TCU all won.

And Marist came so close, but the Red Wolves lost in five at Siena to drop to 0-13.

Athletes Unlimited begins its volleyball season on Thursday in Mesa, Arizona.

It all follows in this edition of Volleyball Today:

NCAA sets volleyball championship sites

Margaritas on the River Walk … 

The NCAA announced 240 national-championship sites across a multitude of sports for the next few years, including women’s volleyball, men’s volleyball and beach volleyball.

The women are headed back to San Antonio for the 2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship, the first time in that Texas city since 2011 when UCLA beat Illinois in the final. Then in 2027 it’s back to Columbus, Ohio, where the final four and AVCA convention have been…

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