Nebraska won its 22nd straight game on Thursday as the No. 2 Huskers defeated visiting No. 16 Minnesota in four sets in the Big Ten.

There were no upsets and four five-set matches, and incredibly, none resulted in reverse sweeps in this season of the reverse sweep.

Line of the Day: Red-hot Tori Hester had a season-high 35 kills in Troy’s Sun Belt loss to App State. She hit .291 and had four assists, an ace, nine digs and a block. It is the third match in a row in which she has 30 or more kills.

And the AVCA narrowed the list of national players of the year to fourteen.

It’s all in this edition of Volleyball Today:

NCAA Volleyball Friday

Two SEC teams on winning streaks face off in the ACC when No. 21 Florida, which has won seven in a row, goes to No. 25 Missouri, which has won nine in a row. No. 13 Texas is in Auburn, Georgia is in Tennessee, Mississippi State goes to Alabama and Arkansas is at Ole Miss.

In the only game of the eight in the ACC involving two ranked teams, No. 1 Pittsburgh is home to No. 22 Florida State. Third-ranked Louisville is home to Duke, No. 9 SMU is home to Miami, No. 7 Stanford is home to Virginia Tech, No. 16 Georgia Tech is home to Syracuse, Boston College is in Clemson, North Carolina is Notre Dame And Virginia is at Cal.

The lone Big 12 matchup features No. 18 TCU at Kansas State.

Two of the four Big Ten games involve ranked teams, when No. 5 Penn State is home to Illinois and No. 11 Oregon is home to Northwestern. Michigan goes to Michigan State and Maryland goes to Ohio State.

Fourth-ranked Creighton has a Big East matchup at home against Seton Hall as the Bluejays look for their 17th straight win.

No. 11 Dayton, which has won 19 in a row, will play an Atlantic 10 game in Saint Louis.

The CAA logjam, with four teams at 13-3 at the top of the league, will lose at least one team when Towson is at home to Hofstra. Delaware is home for Elon and Charleston is home for Northeastern. And Hampton, which is 0-28 and the only team in the country without a win, heads to William & Mary.

The two teams were tied for the lead in the Ohio Valley, Lindenwood and Southeast Missouri, coming into contention again after Lindenwood defeated SEMO in four on Friday.

NCAA Volleyball Thursday

In second place Nebraska extended its Big Ten lead over idle Penn State with a 25-12, 22-25, 25-22, 25-19 victory over visiting No. 16 Minnesota. Harper Murray had 13 kills for the Huskers and added two assists, 19 digs and three blocks. No. 6 Wisconsin cruised to a 25-18, 25-19, 25-12 sweep at No. 23 USC as Sarah Franklin had 13 kills without errors in 19 attacks, one assist, two aces and five digs. USC hit .079. No. 10 Purdue swept visit Rutgers And Iowa, which used only seven players, received a lot of visitors Indiana …

In the Big 12, No. 8 State of Arizona swept towards West Virginia to extend his lead to a full game over inactive No. 20 Kansas Utah swept towards Houstonno. 24 BYU won in four ops UCF, And Arizona won in four ops Cincinnati while Carlie Cisneros had 13 kills, an assist, two aces, 19 digs and a solo block…

There were two ACC games as Stanford hit .440 swept on visit Virginia And Cal did the same Virginia technology. Stanford’s Jordyn Harvey had a career-high 16 kills and hit .467, and Elijah Rubin had 14 kills, hit .500 and had two assists, two aces, nine digs and three blocks. Cal’s Maggie Li had 13 kills with one error in 29 attacks, two aces, eight digs and a block…

FGCU, that has won 10 in a row, with a major visiting North Florida to win the ASUN regular season title. Shelby Kent had 17 kills with one error in 29 swings to hit .552 and had 11 digs and a block… Speaking of streaking, Southeast Louisiana extended the nation’s best winning streak to 23 matches with a four-set win at Southland East Texas A&M. Cicilie Hidalgo had 17 kills, two assists, two aces and 22 digs. Also in the SLC Northwestern State beat New Orleans in four, while Teresa Garza had 22 kills, hit .367 and had two assists, three aces, 12 digs and a block… State of South Dakota stayed one game ahead Omaha as both won in The Summit League, true St Thomas beat South Dakota in four, while Lauren Galvin had 23 kills, an assist, three aces, eight digs and two blocks…

Loyola Marymount won the ninth in a row and maintained a two-game lead in the WCC with a sweep of San Francisco. San Diego kept pace with a sweep Portland and that’s what happened Peperdine with a swipe of Santa Clara …

Northern Colorado maintained the one-game lead Weber stands as both won their Big Sky matches. UNC won in four The state of Idaho as Isabel Bennett had 16 kills, hit .406 and had four blocks, one solo. Weber State came to visit Northern Arizona as five players had six or more kills… UC Davis is alone again on top of the Big West. by half a game after beating the visiting Aggies CSUN at four. Jade Light had 21 kills, an assist, two aces, 13 digs and a solo block, and Olivia Utterback had 17 kills with one error in 32 attacks to hit .432 and had two assists, two aces, 12 digs and a block… Western Kentucky won the twentieth game in a row when the Toppers came to visit Freedom in the only Conference USA game. Alivia Skidmore and Kaylee Cox each had 16 kills…

Colorado state still holds a two-game lead in the loss column San Jose State And Fresno State in the Mountain West, but the Rams were eliminated in fours at Fresno. Addison Haluska led Fresno with 24 kills, hitting .396, and added eight digs and a solo block. Also in the MWC State of Utah got 20 kills each from Andrea Simovski and Kaylie Ray in a five-set win over the visiting side UNLV …

Lindenwood beat visit Southeast Missouri Stateleaving both teams down 12-3 in the Ohio Valley. Four Lions had 11 or more kills in the four-set victory, 14 by Rebecca Janke, who hit .300 and had seven digs, four solo. Also in the OVC Western Illinois beat State of Tennessee in four, while Keyana Cruise had 21 kills, an ace, 12 digs and five blocks, two solo… ETSU swept towards Western Carolina in the SoCon when Whitney Rammel had 13 kills without errors in 22 attacks to hit .591 to go with a dig and five blocks…

App status And The state of Arkansas both won to move to 10-2 and stay atop their respective Sun Belt Divisions. Beat App Status Troy in five despite Tori Hester’s 35 kills – her teammates combined for 25 kills and 14 errors – and Arkansas State won in four Old rule. Also in the SBC, Samantha Wunsch had 22 kills and hit .327 The state of Texas in their four-set win over visiting James Madison to deal with six digs and five blocks… UT Arlington, which already captured the WAC title, won its 16th in a row with a four-set victory Southern Utah.

AVCA’s final list for POY

The AVCA has created a watch list for the 2024 Division I Player of the Year award and compared it to the first 36 announced on September 20 through September 14.

The AVCA will announce its national player of the year on Friday, December 20. VolleyballMag will wait until the NCAA Championship is over and announce its player of the year on December 24.

The players come from eleven schools, three of which are from Pittsburgh: Olivia Babcock, Rachel Fairbanks and Torrey Stafford. There are two from Nebraska, Bergen Reilly and Lexi Rodriguez.

The others are Kendra Wait of Creighton, Kennedy Martin of Florida, Camryn Turner of Kansas, Eva Hudson of Purdue, Kami Miner of Stanford, Elena Scott of Louisville, Jess Mruzik of Penn State, Melanie Parra of TCU and Sarah Franklin of Wisconsin.

Franklin was the AVCA’s 2023 national POY.