Nebraska blazed through the Nebraska Invitational tournament this weekend, sweeping St. Mary's, Middle Tennessee State, and Long Beach State, making them a solid number one. Upcoming for Nebraska is the Ameritas Players Challenge at the NU Coliseum. Nebraska will face Minnesota, Louisville, and a Cal Poly team that upset Texas this past week.
Washington dropped to #5, after losing to Texas in the AVCA Showcase tournament. Texas benefited from wins over the Huskies and Wisconsin, moving up to #7, despite their loss to Cal Poly.
Texas will be playing #4 Santa Clara and #2 Penn State this week in a tournament that will be broadcast on CSTV (if you want to watch some darned good volleyball).
Rankings released: August 7, 2006 RK TEAM RCD PTS PVS
- Nebraska (14) 33-2 1431 2
- Penn State (17) 31-3 1407 5
- Washington (16) 32-1 1357 1
- Stanford (13) 26-6 1287 13
- Florida 33-3 1181 3
- Santa Clara 27-5 1115 4
- Hawai'i 27-7 1067 9
- Texas 24-5 1066 16
- Wisconsin 26-7 896 10
- UCLA 20-11 837 15
- Tennessee 25-9 779 6
- Louisville 31-3 751 11
- Missouri 25-5 732 8
- Southern California 17-11 642 19
- Ohio 33-3 593 14
- Purdue 25-9 545 17
- California 19-11 528 20
- Arizona 25-6 491 7
- Pepperdine 19-12 484 18
- San Diego 23-6 413 22
- Notre Dame 30-4 411 12
- Minnesota 25-8 393 21
- Ohio State 22-9 346 23
- Utah 23-9 202 25
- Kansas State 21-11 162 24