All the favorites won Friday — most in three sets — but No. 18 TCU not only was upset by Kansas State, the Wildcats swept their Big 12 match.
Kennedy Martin had a program-record 32 kills as No. 21 Florida battled to an up-and-down five-set SEC win at No. 25 Missouri, which ended the Tigers’ nine-match win streak.
There were a handful of five-set outcomes but none ended in reverse sweeps in this season of 0-2 comebacks. One of them saw Southeast Missouri State win at Lindenwood to take over first place in the Ohio Valley Conference.
It’s an NCAA edition of Volleyball Today with a college beach note:
NCAA volleyball Saturday
There are five Big 12 matches, including No. 17 Baylor at No. 12 Kansas. Sixth-ranked Arizona State goes to Cincinnati, No. 20 Utah is at UCF, while No. 24 BYU is at Houston and Iowa State is at Texas Tech.
In the Big Ten, second-ranked Nebraska is home for Indiana, No. 6 Wisconsin goes to UCLA and Rutgers is at Ohio State.
The lone ACC match has NC State at Wake Forest. The SEC is off.
No. 11 Dayton closes out the Atlantic 10 regular season at Saint Louis.
The top two teams in the Mountain West square off when Colorado State, which is not going to forfeit, goes to San Jose State.
And in the CAA, 0-20…
