Top 11 Remain in Tact in Final AVCA Beach Poll Before NCAAs

  0 Wendy Mayer | April 23rd, 2018 | ASUN Conference, Big West, CCSA, College - Beach, News, Pac-12, Rankings, West Coast Conference

With one week left before the NCAA Championship selections are made, there were no changes to the Top 11 spots in the AVCA Top 20 Beach poll.

UCLA (31-3), which has won 26 straight matches dating to March 8, played just one match this week, besting No. 6 Long Beach State 4-1. The Bruins are slated to play in the Pac-12 Championships alongside No. 5 USC among others this weekend in Palo Alto, California.

No. 2 Pepperdine sewed up the West Coast Conference Championship title with a victory over Pacific and then two against No. 20 Saint Mary’s. The Waves are now 15-0 in WCC Tournament action over the past three seasons.

No. 3 Hawaii, No. 4 Cal Poly and No. 6 Long Beach State will facce off in the Big West Championships this weekend in Honolulu.

Meanwhile No. 7 Florida State secured the CCSA Tournament title with a 6-0 effort over the weekend, including a pair of wins over No. 8 LSU and one each over No. 10 Florida International and No. 11 George State.

Stanford and Cal switched spots after the Bears posted a 3-2 Senior Day win over the Cardinal, avenging a 3-2 loss from the previous weekend’s Pac-12 North Tournament. Cal moves up to No. 12, while Stanford drops a spot to No. 13.

Stetson moved up a spot after winning the ASUN title, dropping just one of its 12 court pairings.

Florida Atlantic was the biggest mover of the week, dropping from 18 to 20 after going 1-3 at the CCSA Tournament.

AVCA Beach Top 20 – April 23, 2018

Rank School 2018 Record Previous Rank
1 UCLA 31-3 1
2 Pepperdine 24-3 2
3 Hawai’i 32-3 3
4 Cal Poly 25-5 4
5 Southern California 22-10 5
6 Long Beach State 23-6 6
7 Florida State 30-6 7
8 LSU 26-12 8
9 South Carolina 24-7 9
10 Florida International 23-10 10
11 Georgia State 24-12 11
12 California 21-6 13
13 Stanford 16-11 12
14 Arizona 19-10 14
15 Loyola Marymount 22-14 15
16 Stetson 30-8 17
17 Grand Canyon 13-16 16
18 Tulane 23-14 19
19 Saint Mary’s 16-12 20
20 Florida Atlantic 18-15 18


Others receiving votes: 
Washington, TCU, College of Charleston, Arizona State, North Florida, UAB

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Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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