This is a recurring Monday theme, where we say best of luck to our VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll voters.
You/we are gonna need it.
What to do, for example, with No. 16 Arizona State, which lost in five on Friday at Oregon State, which hadn’t won in the Pac-12 before that, but then Sunday not only won at No. 5 Oregon, it swept the Ducks.
Or No. 9 Tennessee, which not only lost to visiting AVCA No. 23 Kentucky, but got swept at home.
Or No. 12 Georgia Tech, which not only lost to Miami on its home court, but also got swept at home.
Otherwise, Sunday was upset free as No. 1 Wisconsin, No. 3 Stanford, No. 4 Washington State, No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Pittsburgh, No. 8 Louisville and No. 13 Arkansas — now leading the SEC — all won.
But the voters have to consider Louisville’s sweep this past week of Pittsburgh, how Texas went to Houston and dominated two matches, if losing to Nebraska hurt No. 13 Penn State and, because it’s a poll, not the computer rankings, should 20-0 The Citadel get consideration?
Also in this roundup is Cal, which has two Pac-12 wins for the first time since 2019, and the line of the day belonged to Missouri’s Jane deMarrais, who had 30 kills.
Sunday’s…
