Washington #12 in media poll

This week’s Volleyball Magazine/Asics media poll once again closely tracks yesterday’s coaches’ poll.

The coaches showed slightly more love than the media toward Washington, Hawai’i, Illinois and Kentucky. The media had a higher opinion of Texas and Northern Iowa.

In case you missed it, Northern Iowa’s only loss this season was a 5-set nonconference home match against Minnesota. The Panthers have two early-season nonconference wins against ranked teams: Florida State and Iowa State. Their conference wins have come against the likes of Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, South Dakota State, etc. It took the Panthers five sets to defeat North Dakota State, 20-28 in the final frame.

Volleyblog Seattle is a new voter this season in the media poll. Nine media “regulars” cast their votes, and the rest of us have our votes averaged for the tenth vote. Volleyblog Seattle’s vote in this week’s poll is broken out in the right column.

Rank	School (First-Place Votes)	Total Points	Last Week	Coaches’ Poll	Volleyblog Seattle
1.	UCLA (9)	199	1	1	1
2.	Nebraska (1)	188	2	2	3
3.	Stanford	174	3	3	4
4.	Southern California	171	4	4	2
5.	California	157	7	5	5
6.	Texas	139	9	8	9
7.	Hawaii	138	7	6	11
8.	Illinois	132	5	7	6
9.	Penn State	124	6	9	7
10.	Purdue	121	11	10	10
11.	Northern Iowa	98	12	12	13
12.	Washington	90	10	11	8
13.	Iowa State	76	13	13	14
14.	Pepperdine	60	15	14	12
15.	Tennessee	56	16	15	18
16.	Minnesota	55	14	16	16
17.	Florida State	38	18	17	17
18.	Florida	33	17	19	20
19.	Oregon	26	19	20	15
20.	Kentucky	22	20	18	19