NCAA | Washington volleyball moves up in weekly coaches’ rankings

After win against Stanford and losses but other ranked teams, Huskies back up to #3

Every season, there’s a weekend when top teams tumble. This was that week.

-photo by Shutter Geeks Photography

• #1 USC lost to Arizona
• #2 Florida lost to #18 Missouri
• #5 Michigan State lost to #10 Minnesota
• #5 Michigan State lost to #15 Wisconsin
• #7 Stanford lost to #6 Washington
• #8 Nebraska lost to #25 Purdue
• #15 Wisconsin lost to #16 Michigan
• #16 Michigan lost to #10 Minnesota
• #17 Ohio State lost to Northwestern
• #17 Ohio State lost to Illinois
• #22 Arizona State lost to UCLA
• #22 Arizona State lost to #1 USC

This week’s big winners were Washington (over California and #7 Stanford) and Minnesota (over #5 Michigan State and #16 Michigan). Missouri is undefeated (23-0) but ranks only 11^th, perhaps because it’s win at home over #2 Florida was its first match this season against a ranked team.

This week’s AVCA poll, with Volleyblog Seattle’s ballot in tomorrow’s Volleyball Magazine media poll:

WEEK NINE

AVCA Coaches		School (First Place votes)	Volleyblog Seattle
This Week	Last Week
1	3	Texas (44)	3
2	4	Penn St (12)	2
3	6	Washington (4)	1
4	1	Southern Cal	4
5	2	Florida	9
6	7	Stanford	6
7	10	Minnesota	5
8	9	Hawai’i	12
9	11	San Diego	16
10	5	Michigan St	13
11	18	Missouri	7
12	12	Colorado St	10
13	8	Nebraska	14
14	13	North Carolina	8
15	14	Kentucky	17
16	15	Wisconsin	15
17	16	Michigan	NR
18	19	Florida St	18
19	20	BYU	11
20	21	Oregon	NR
21	25	Purdue	NR
22	23	Kansas	NR
23	24	Duke	19
24	17	Ohio St	NR
25	NR	Arizona	NR
	22	Arizona St	NR
	NR	Central Arkansas	20

Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more AVCA ballots: Creighton 63; Arizona State 50; Oklahoma 44; UCLA 26; California 20; Cal State Northridge 10; Illinois 9; Western Kentucky 9; Ohio 8; Miami (FL) 7; Northwestern 7; St. Mary's (CA) 6; Iowa State 4

see also: What we learned from Washingtonvolleyball’s win over Stanford

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Photos courtesy Shutter Geeks Photography