NCAA | Pac-12 continues to dominate final regular-season coaches’ poll

Washington (22-5) back in the top 5

The votes have been tabulated for the final regular-season weekly coaches’ poll, conducted by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).

Washington huddles against Oregon State
-Volleyblog Seattle photo by Leslie Hamann

 The Pac-12, as it has for most of the past two months, scores five of the top seven positions.

Voters boosted USC four spots after the Trojans beat former #1 Stanford, but raised Washington just one slot after its victory over former #4 Oregon.

Volleyblog Seattle still can’t figure out why coaches give so much love to Hawai’i (still no road matches against a top team), and why they can’t seem to stomach Miami (FL) (just four losses, plus a win over Florida State.)

And that crazy RPI? We’ll be addressing that soon in another post.

AVCA Rank	School (First-Place Votes)	Total Points	2012 Record	Previous	Volleyblog Seattle Rank	RPI
1	Penn State (56)	1495	27-2	2	1	2
2	Stanford (4)	1409	25-3	1	2	1
3	Texas	1380	23-3	3	7	3
4	USC	1274	26-4	8	4	10
5	Washington	1233	22-5	6	3	12
6	Oregon	1197	23-4	4	6	11
7	UCLA	1177	21-6	5	5	8
8	Hawai'i	1123	24-2	7	10	16
9	Louisville	969	27-3	10	11	4
10	Nebraska	921	21-6	9	8	5
11	Minnesota	888	22-7	14	9	7
12	Florida State	858	26-3	11	13	9
13	Dayton	747	25-4	12	19	22
14	Ohio State	705	22-8	15	16	20
15	Florida	657	23-4	16	18	14
16	BYU	582	25-3	13	14	13
17	Western Kentucky	511	32-3	17	20	28
18	Iowa State	467	18-7	19	NR	23
19	San Diego	413	21-6	18	15	25
20	Kansas	344	23-6	22	NR	6
21	Creighton	242	26-3	23	NR	29
22	Purdue	234	19-10	21	NR	26
23	Miami (FL)	177	25-4	24	12	21
24	North Carolina	123	24-5	25	NR	19
25	Kansas State	102	21-7	20	NR	17

Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: St. Mary's (CA) 68; Tennessee 60; Michigan State 36; Texas A&M 36; Marquette 26; Pepperdine 22; Kentucky 9; Michigan 4; Colorado State 2

Dropped Out: none

see also:

How the Top 20 fared

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WRITTEN BY: Jack Hamann | PHOTOGRAPHY: Leslie Hamann

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