NCAA Women
November 2, 2024
What a Friday in NCAA Division I volleyball:
— No. 2 Nebraska not only won for the first time since 2013 at Wisconsin, the Huskers swept the No. 7 Badgers;
— Unranked Miami, which earlier this season upset then-No. 1 Texas, was down 24-22 in the fourth, came back to win the set 31-29 and then upset No. 6 Stanford by winning the fifth 16-14;
— Unranked Missouri won in five at No. 7 Texas and is tied with the Longhorns and Kentucky atop the SEC at 7-2;
— There were, of course, reverse sweeps on a day when most matches were done in three sets. Youngstown State pulled off a reverse sweep against visiting Oakland in the Horizon League, Central Michigan did it at Ohio in the MAC and Evansville did it to visiting Illinois State in the Missouri Valley.
Lines of the day: Speaking of Evansville, NCAA kills leader Giulia Cardona, the Argentinian senior who hits outside for the Purple Aces, had 34 kills, hit .453, and had two aces, three blocks and eight digs. Cardona, who has had 30 or more kills six times this season, has 518 kills, well ahead of Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (437 kills), who had 19 Friday in a sweep of UC Santa Barbara.
UC Riverside won…