Top-ranked Pittsburgh didn’t need five sets to beat No 3 Louisville this time.
No, the Panthers won in four and clinched at least a tie for the ACC title.
BYU, which fell out of the AVCA top 25 last week, upset No. 10 Kansas, also in four.
A bunch of other teams needed five on Wednesday.
Reverse sweeps in this season of reverse sweeps?
No. 6 Stanford pulled it off at No. 19 Georgia Tech.
No. 11 Purdue did it at No. 14 Oregon.
In the Big Sky quarterfinals, top-seeded Northern Colorado avoided a monumental upset to eighth-seeded Montana State when the Bears rallied from being down 0-2.
They weren’t reverse sweeps, but:
South Carolina scored one of the big upsets of the day when the Gamecocks beat No. 16 Florida in five sets for the second time this season;
Wisconsin, tied with Stanford in the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll, beat visiting Ohio State in five;
No. 15 Utah had to win in five at Iowa State;
AVCA No. 16 Baylor needed five sets to win at Cincinnati;
And in the Big East Championship, Villanova upset UConn in five.
In the Mountain West, sixth-seeded Boise State upset No. 3 Utah State, but then said it will forfeit its semifinal match to second-seeded San Jose State on…
