Volleyball Today: San Diego, Arkansas notch NCAA upsets; Wisconsin hires Carlini

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Tulsa’s Tytiana Johnson hits through the Arkansas block/Joshua Rogers photo

In another all-NCAA volleyball edition of Volleyball Today, San Diego got a much-needed victory Thursday with an upset of No. 17 BYU and Tulsa knocked off No. 22 Arkansas.

All the other AVCA-ranked teams swept except Baylor, which beat LSU, 30-28 in the fourth.

We’re back to quite a few teams playing twice in a day as the third weekend of pre-conference play continues Friday, so the slate is loaded.

The SEC is going to use the multi-sport video review system supplied by Hawk-Eye Innovations and Olympian Lauren Carlini got a real job.

Friday’s NCAA volleyball schedule

Most of the ranked Big Ten teams are in action, including No. 5 Nebraska (6-1) playing host to the Big 12’s No. 14 Arizona State (7-0) of the Big 12. Third-ranked Penn State (5-0) plays the ACC’s Duke, No. 7 Purdue (6-0) plays Houston of the Big 12, No. 12 Oregon plays No. 17 BYU of the Big 12, No. 19 Minnesota (3-3) takes on unbeaten Auburn (6-0) of the SEC and UCLA (5-1) plays No. 25 TCU (4-2) of the Big 12.

One won’t be unbeaten after Friday when No. 24 Dayton (5-0) of the Atlantic 10 plays Illinois (6-0) at Western Kentucky. Michigan, off to a 7-0 start, plays Akron. Washington (5-0) faces Washington State (3-2) in a not-Pac-12…

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