Last week, Wayne State was the No. 1 team in the country according to the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s coaches poll.
This week, it’s unanimous.
The Wildcats received all 47 first-place votes in this week’s Div. II Coaches Poll, marking the first time Wayne State has been a unanimous No. 1 selection.
The voting comes after the Wildcats swept No. 4 St. Cloud State and No. 9 Minnesota Duluth on the road over the weekend to improve to 16-0 on the season, matching the 2010 team for the best start in school history.
Both St. Cloud State and Minnesota Duluth held their positions in this week’s poll, with Concordia-St. Paul also staying put at No. 3 behind MSU Denver. Southwest Minnesota State moved up from No. 8 to No. 7 to give the Northern Sun Conference five of the top nine teams in this week’s poll.
Other Central Region schools included this week are No. 6 Nebraska-Kearney, No. 8 Washburn, No. 10 Northwest Missouri State and No. 18 Central Missouri.
The Wildcats will be at home this weekend, welcoming Bemidji State for a 7 p.m. tilt Friday and Minnesota Crookston for a 1 p.m. match Saturday at Rice Auditorium.
This week’s AVCA Div. II Coaches Poll is as follows (last week’s rank in parenthesis):
1. Wayne State (1)
2. MSU Denver (2)
3. Concordia-St. Paul (3)
4. St. Cloud State (4)
5. Tampa (5)
6. Nebraska-Kearney (7)
7. Southwest Minnesota State (8)
8. Washburn (6)
9. Minnesota Duluth (9)
10. NW Missouri State (11)
11. Alaska-Anchorage (14)
12. Western Washington (10)
13. Lewis (15)
14. West Florida (12)
15. West Texas A&M (18)
16. Cal State San Bernardino (13)
17. Regis (19)
18. Central Missouri (17)
19. Barry (16)
20. Cal Poly Pomona (23)
21. Colorado Mesa (20)
22. Hillsdale (22)
23. Colorado Mines (21)
24. Wingate (24)
25. Quincy (NR)
