North Carolina Returns to AVCA Top 10 After Thunderous Win Over FSU

  0 Braden Keith | November 07th, 2016 | ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, College - Women's Indoor, Division I Mid-Major, News, Pac 12, Rankings, SEC

It was redemption week for the women of North Carolina and Stanford, both of whom have returned to the top 10 in the latest edition of the AVCA Coaches’ poll released on Monday.

UNC jumped 4 spots to #8 after defeating then-#10 Florida State and Miami last week. That was recovery after a week earlier where they dropped a 3-2 result to unranked Pitt for their first loss in ACC play this season.

Stanford, meanwhile, cemented a longer-term recovery after a mid-October swoon. The Cardinal won their 5th and 6th straight matches last week, including a 3-0 sweep of then-#19 Utah and formerly-ranked Colorado. The Cardinal are in the midst of a run of 8-straight games against teams who have been ranked at some point this season, and now sit 5-1 in those games. Southern California foes USC and UCLA come to town next week to test the Cardinal again.

As a new Pac-12 team entered the top 10, two fell out – Washington stumbled against Oregon last week (who suddenly looks like a serious contender at #16) and slid to 11th. UCLA also dropped from 9th to 13th.

Two new teams entered the top 25 this week. Voters are finally starting to believe in the 21-4 Tigers, who are tied with Florida for the SEC lead, after they swept then-#18 Kentucky last week.

Arizona, after another big upset win (they knocked UCLA out of the top 10) also moved into the top 25 at exactly 25th (by a sizable gap by the highest ‘receiving-votes’ team Purdue).

Ohio State, USC, and Washington State all fell out of the latest polls, though all still received votes.

Full Top 25 for November 7th, 2016

RANK SCHOOL (FIRST PLACE VOTES) POINTS RECORD PREVIOUS WEEK
1 Nebraska (64) 1600 22-1 1
2 Minnesota 1525 19-4 2
3 Wisconsin 1462 20-3 3
4 Kansas 1403 22-2 4
5 Texas 1353 18-3 5
6 Florida 1283 23-2 6
7 San Diego 1204 21-3 7
8 North Carolina 1054 21-3 12
9 Stanford 1013 16-6 13
10 Penn State 969 18-7 11
11 Washington 924 20-4 8
12 BYU 914 22-3 14
13 UCLA 796 19-5 9
14 Hawai’i 787 18-5 15
15 Michigan State 748 21-5 16
16 Oregon 625 17-6 20
17 Michigan 571 20-6 17
18 Florida State 551 18-5 10
19 Utah 375 17-8 19
20 Western Kentucky 365 26-2 21
21 Missouri 283 21-4 NR
22 Creighton 233 20-6 25
23 Dayton 208 26-1 24
24 Kentucky 198 19-6 18
25 Arizona 179 16-10 NR

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Purdue 38; Ohio State 32; Southern California 24; Washington State 20; Texas A&M 17; Colorado 9; Iowa 8; Missouri State 7; Pittsburgh 7; Illinois 5

Four teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 10 combined points.

Dropped Out: Ohio State 22; Southern California 25; Washington State 23

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of VolleyMob.com. Braden's first foray into sports journalism came in 2010, when he launched a swimming website called The Swimmers' Circle. Two years later, he joined SwimSwam.com as a co-founder. Long huge fans of volleyball, when Braden and the SwimSwam partners sought an opportunity to …

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