NCAA Women
October 16, 2024
SMU, coming off its upset of No. 1 Pittsburgh, continues its gauntlet of an ACC schedule by playing host to Stanford on Wednesday.
SMU is one of a handful of ranked NCAA Division I teams in action on a day with just 17 matches.
This edition of Volleyball Today includes Tuesday’s results, news that Hawai’i is leaving the Big West for the Mountain West and our weekly update of USA players in pro leagues abroad.
NCAA volleyball report
WEDNESDAY: SMU (13-4, 5-1), which moved up to No. 9 in this week’s VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll, is coming off back-to-back matches with Pitt and now entertains No. 5 Stanford (13-2, 5-1). It’s their first ACC meeting as new members of the conference. In the other ACC match, AVCA No. 17 Georgia Tech (11-4, 3-3) is home for Clemson (8-9, 0-6), which is tied with Syracuse for last place. Idle Louisville (14-2, 6-0) is the only team left unbeaten in ACC play.
The SEC’s two matches have No. 16 Kentucky (9-7, 2-3) at Tennessee (9-6, 2-3) and AVCA No. 25 Auburn (14-2, 4-1) at Alabama (9-7, 1-4).
There are two Big Ten matches when Indiana (9-7, 2-4) goes to Illinois (11-5, 3-3) and Iowa (9-9, 3-3) is at Northwestern…
