NCAA Women
November 24, 2024
Nebraska dominated Wisconsin, sweeping the Badgers again, to win its 25th match in a row and get one step closer to an unbeaten Big Ten season.
Arizona State beat Colorado to clinch the Big 12’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
Rutgers snapped its 17-match losing streak and won’t go oh-fer in the Big Ten after winning in four at Northwestern.
Six teams — New Hampshire, FGCU, Charleston, Yale, Chicago State and UT Arlington — won their respective conference tournaments and the automatic bids that went with them.
Sunday 16 more teams will win conference titles and some of them may be most unlikely NCAA participants after a rash of mid-major upsets Saturday.
There were reverse sweeps: Florida Atlantic pulled it off in its American Athletic tourney upset of Rice, and Wyoming did it to visiting Nevada in the Mountain West by the wacky scores of 22-25, 15-25, 25-7, 25-13, 15-9.
A conference-by-conference breakdown of Saturday’s results and what’s ahead Sunday follows.
On the sand, Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg took silver at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge in Chennai, India, after compatriots Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez won bronze.
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