Kansas won’t soon forget its first Big 12 trip to Arizona, but for all the wrong reasons.
Two days after getting knocked off at Arizona State, the No. 6 Jayhawks — who were 11-0 in the Big 12 before they left home — lost in five at Arizona, which broke a four-match losing streak. Jordan Wilson had a career-high .37 kills for the Wildcats.
Sixteen other ranked teams played Friday and all won except for No. 20 USC, which fell in five at Illinois, and No. 21 BYU, which got swept at No. 23 Utah, which beat the Cougars for the first time in four years.
No. 1 Pittsburgh beat No. 25 North Carolina in the only other match with two ranked teams.
The season of the reverse sweep continues. Gardner-Webb came back from 0-2 to beat visiting UNC Asheville in the Big South.
Lines of the day: The top honor goes to Arizona’s Wilson, but Drake’s Macy Daufeldt had 32 kills in a five-set Missouri Valley victory over visiting Valparaiso. She hit .295 after taking 78 swings, and had two assists, two aces, 14 digs and two blocks.
Tori Hester had 30 kills for Troy in its five-set Sun Belt win at Southern Miss. She had 13 digs and three blocks, two solo, as she became the school’s all-time kills leader. Hester…
