Big Ten Weekly Volleyball Central Sept. 17-23

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Big Ten Weekly Release – Sept. 17

• Six Big Ten volleyball packages have been amongst this week’s AVCA/TARAFLEX Top 25, introduced on Monday: #1 Nebraska, #7 Wisconsin, #11 Purdue, #12 Minnesota, #13 Penn State and #19 USC. Indiana, Oregon and UCLA receieved votes on this week’s ballot.
• Twelve Division I groups stay unbeaten with the Big Ten accounting for 3 of these groups: Nebraska (9-0), Indiana (8-0) and Michigan State (7-0)
• In addition to being named Big Ten Player of the Week, Wisconsin’s Mimi Colyer was named the AVCA National Player of the Week on Tuesday. Colyer tallied 19 kills vs. No. 21 Georgia Tech and completed with a season-high .600 hitting proportion in opposition to Milwaukee, concluding the 2 matches with a mixed three errors to guide Wisconsin to a pair of sweeps. Colyer is simply the second participant in Division I girls’s volleyball to earn AVCA Division I Player of the Week honors with two completely different faculties.
• Purdue’s Ryan McAleer and Wisconsin’s Charlie Fuerbringer and Colyer have been chosen to Michella Chester’s Starting Rotation for Week 3. The trio of alternatives additionally earned Big Ten weekly honors.
• The official attendance for the Nebraska/Creighton match at CHI Health Center Omaha on Tuesday night time was 17,675, an NCAA document for an indoor regular-season match. Tuesday’s match was the Eleventh-largest crowd no matter timing and placement, and the Huskers have been part of 13 of the 14 most attended matches.
• RV Indiana is off to its first 8-0 begin of a season since 2017. Since 2000, it’s simply the fourth time that the Hoosiers have received the primary eight video games of a marketing campaign. Indiana has received 24 of the final 25 units performed and conclude its non-conference slate at RV Western Kentucky on Friday (ESPN+) and vs. Bradley on Saturday on the Alyssa Cavanaugh Classic in Bowling Green, Ky.
• No. 11 Purdue has received 5 consecutive matches, together with two top-15 victories within the stretch. Purdue lately swept No. 10 SMU, marking the Eleventh consecutive 12 months the Boilermakers have earned a top-10 win.
• No. 13 Penn State hosts No. 5 Pittsburgh on Wednesday at Rec Hall. It’s Penn State’s sixth nationally-ranked opponent within the first eight matches of the season.
• Michigan State is off to its greatest begin for the reason that 2012 season, following victories over Western Michigan (3-1), Kennesaw State (3-1) and Appalachian State (3-2) final week. The Spartans’ 7-0 begin matches the perfect begin in program historical past for a head coach of their first season at Michigan State, with head coach Kristen Kelsay matching Annelies Knoppers’ 7-0 begin through the 1974 season.
• Big Ten Conference play begins on Wednesday, Sept. 24, with a pair of matches as Nebraska hosts Michigan and Indiana visits Northwestern. Each faculty will play a 20-match Big Ten schedule, assembly three member establishments each dwelling and away, and taking part in the 14 remaining faculties as soon as.
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