NCAA | Washington volleyball jumps to #3 in national media poll

AVCA poll elevates Penn State #1 and Cinderella team San Diego #2

Last week, Volleyblog Seattle rated San Diego two spots higher than the coaches, and three higher than other media. We were even bigger outliers with Arizona State, ranking the Sun Devils #11 compared to #20 for the media and unranked by the coaches.

This weekend, San Diego beat last week’s #1 USC, and Arizona State took care of last week’s #2 Texas.

Undefeated Washington rises to #3, the highest of any Pac-12 team this week. Cal head coach Rich Feller and George Mason head coach Pat Kendrick each named the Huskies #1. This year, 60 D1 coaches participate in the AVCA poll; Jim McLaughlin is not among them. Also:

• 16 coaches selected Washington #2, including Penn State’s Russ Rose
• Nebraska’s John Cook, Texas’ Jerritt Elliott, and Illinois’ Kevin Hambly were among those who ranked Washington #4.
• Stanford’s John Dunning placed UW at #5.
• Utah’s Beth Launiere and Florida’s Mary Wise selected Washington at #6.
• Both USC’s Mick Haley and UCLA’s Mike Sealy pegged the Huskies at #7.
• Marshall University’s (West Virginia) Mitch Jacobs rated Washington 9^th, lowest of any ballot

The coaches are still missing the boat on Arizona State, a team just one controversial call away from being undefeated.

This week’s AVCA poll:

WEEK FOUR

AVCA Coaches		School (First Place votes)	Volleyblog Seattle
This Week	Last Week
1	3	Penn St (45)	2
2	9	San Diego (13)	1
3	6	Washington (2)	3
4	5	Florida	9
5	1	Southern California	4
6	2	Texas	8
7	10	Hawai’i	7
8	8	Stanford	11
9	4	Minnesota	5
10	7	Michigan	10
11	11	UCLA	13
12	12	Nebraska	16
13	13	Ohio St	12
14	15	Michigan St	15
15	18	North Carolina	17
16	14	Illinois	NR
17	16	Florida St	18
18	NR	Arizona St	6
19	19	Kentucky	NR
20	20	Oregon	NR
21	22	Purdue	NR
22	NR	Colorado St	NR
23	24	Creighton	NR
24	NR	Ohio	NR
25	17	Iowa St	NR
NR	25	Wisconsin	14
NR	NR	Kansas St	19
NR	23	California	20

Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots:Texas A&M 96; California 92; Oklahoma 88; Western Kentucky 58; Kansas State 40; Pepperdine 17; Wisconsin 17; St. Mary's (CA) 16; Cal State Northridge 4

see also:

• Who will be/should be the #1 volleyball team this week?
• Washington's Krista Vansant is Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week