60 Division 1 coaches cast their ballots, and Washington moves up one more step to
#2 in the weekly AVCA Division 1 Coaches Top 25 Poll.
This is the third time the Huskies have reached #2; the
first two were toward the end of the 2006 season, when they trailed only Nebraska. In 2004, the Huskies were
ranked #1 for seven weeks; in 2005 they ascended to #1 the final week of the
season when they swept the Cornhuskers for the national title.
Voters are finally giving USC some overdue respect: they’ve won eight Pac-12 matches in a
row, a conference with five teams in the top seven. Washington has won seven
Pac-12 matches in a row, all by 3-0 sweeps.
Two more weeks until Illinois
finally travels to Nebraska, in their only Big-10
meeting of the season (Why do the 12 members of the Pac-12 play every other team home and away, but the 12 members of
the Big-10 play some fellow conference members only once?)
Both Northern Iowa
and San Diego have just one loss
each, but it looks to me that San Diego has the tougher schedule. Midwest bias?
Finally, who’s the coach who voted UCLA #1 after suffering its second Pac-12 loss, this time to Arizona?
Rank
|
School
(First-Place Votes)
|
Total
Points
|
2011
Record
|
Last
Week
|
1
|
Illinois
(58)
|
1495
|
17-0
|
1
|
2
|
Washington
|
1369
|
15-1
|
3
|
3
|
Southern California (1)
|
1304
|
13-3
|
5
|
4
|
California
|
1295
|
17-2
|
4
|
5
|
Nebraska
|
1278
|
13-1
|
6
|
6
|
UCLA (1)
|
1209
|
14-3
|
2
|
7
|
Stanford
|
1146
|
12-3
|
7
|
8
|
Hawai'i
|
1062
|
15-1
|
9
|
9
|
Penn
State
|
1020
|
11-5
|
8
|
10
|
Texas
|
933
|
10-4
|
10
|
11
|
Purdue
|
887
|
15-2
|
11
|
12
|
Northern
Iowa
|
830
|
17-1
|
12
|
13
|
Florida
|
788
|
13-3
|
13
|
14
|
Minnesota
|
702
|
10-5
|
14
|
15
|
Iowa
State
|
642
|
14-3
|
16
|
16
|
Oregon
|
577
|
12-4
|
15
|
17
|
San
Diego
|
537
|
18-1
|
17
|
18
|
Tennessee
|
483
|
15-2
|
19
|
19
|
Pepperdine
|
414
|
11-5
|
20
|
20
|
Michigan
|
310
|
14-4
|
18
|
21
|
Florida
State
|
285
|
13-4
|
24
|
22
|
Oklahoma
|
261
|
17-4
|
22
|
23
|
Miami
(FL)
|
192
|
14-2
|
21
|
24
|
Ohio
State
|
87
|
13-6
|
25
|
25
|
Kentucky
|
66
|
16-3
|
NR
|
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