NCAA | Washington volleyball moves to #2 in national coaches' poll

AVCA poll keeps Penn State #1; 6 Pac-12 teams among top 21

Washington—one of only seven remaining undefeated teams in Division 1—moved to #2 in the weekly AVCA coaches’ poll. The Huskies passed #8 San Diego, which dropped after a 3-0 loss to unranked BYU.

Of the 60 D1 coaches participating in the AVCA poll five voted Washington #1: Penn State’s Russ Rose, California’s Rich Feller, George Mason’s Pat Kendrick, UNC-Greensboro’s Patrick Nicholas and Long Beach State’s Brian Gimmillaro. The lowest ranking for UW came from Marshall University’s (West Virginia) Mitch Jacobs, who rated UW #9.

The coaches still aren’t convinced about Arizona State, a team just one controversial call away from being undefeated.

This week’s AVCA poll:

WEEK FIVE

AVCA Coaches		School (First Place votes)	Volleyblog Seattle
This Week	Last Week
1	1	Penn St (53)	1
2	3	Washington (5)	2
3	4	Florida	9
4	5	Southern California (2)	3
5	6	Texas	7
6	7	Hawai’i	4
7	8	Stanford	10
8	2	San Diego	8
9	9	Minnesota	5
10	10	Michigan	12
11	11	UCLA	14
12	12	Nebraska	17
13	13	Ohio St	11
14	15	North Carolina	13
15	14	Michigan St	16
16	18	Arizona St	6
17	17	Florida St	NR
18	19	Kentucky	NR
19	22	Colorado St	19
20	21	Purdue	NR
21	20	Oregon	NR
22	24	Ohio	NR
23	23	Creighton	NR
24	16	Illinois	NR
25	25	Iowa St	NR
NR	NR	Wisconsin	15
NR	NR	Kansas St	18
NR	NR	BYU	20

Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: Kansas State 78; Western Kentucky 54; Wisconsin 47; Oklahoma 25; BYU 23; St. Mary's (CA) 18; California 16; Duke 16; Texas A&M 14; Miami (FL) 9; Cal State Northridge 6