The USA women won the sitting volleyball title Saturday in Paris, the third gold medal in a row for a program that has medaled in every Paralympics since the discipline was introduced for women in 2004.
The Americans, who lost to China to open the tournament, this time beat China 25-21, 23-25, 25-20, 25-22 to give the USA three indoor medals this summer. In the Paris Olympics last month, the USA women took silver and the men won bronze.
While the USA was winning, NCAA volleyball was into another chock-full Saturday that saw what has become the usual unpredictability and surprising results.
That included Miami dealing Texas — No. 1 in the AVCA preseason and first-week polls but sure to fall — another loss by pulling off a reverse sweep in Gregory Gym. Sixth-ranked Wisconsin escaped Baylor with a five-set win, and Loyola Marymount had a reverse-sweep victory at SMU, which just five days earlier defeated Nebraska.
Or, as we say repeatedly, that’s why the VolleyballMag media poll won’t begin for two more weeks when pre-conference play is finished.
The recaps and top performances for all of the above follow, but first a look at Sunday’s NCAA schedule that includes 37 matches.
Six of those matches involve Big Ten teams, two of which are unbeaten as 5-0 Illinois plays. Wake…
