The Wayne State volleyball team stayed at No. 8 in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association Div. II Top 25 coaches poll, marking their 98th consecutive national ranking since Sept. 28, 2009.
The Northern Sun Conference has six of the top eight and seven of the top 14 teams in the country, while the NCAA Central Region features eight of the top nine and 12 of the top 21 in NCAA Div. II.
The Wildcats went 2-0 over the weekend with road wins at Minnesota Crookston 3-1 and Bemidji State 3-2. Wayne State is on the road again this weekend with NSIC matches at Minot State Friday night (7 p.m.) and the University of Mary Saturday afternoon (4 p.m.)
This week's AVCA Div. II Top 25 is as follows (last week's ranking in parenthesis):
1. Concordia-St. Paul (3)
2. Minnesota Duluth (1)
3. Nebraska-Kearney (4)
4. Southwest Minn. State (2)
5. Wheeling Jesuit (5)
6. Winona State (6)
7. Augustana (7)
8. Wayne State (8)
9. Central Oklahoma (9)
10. Angelo State (10)
11. Alaska-Anchorage (11)
12. Palm Beach Atlantic (12)
13. Washburn (14)
14. Northern State (13)
15. Western Washington (17)
16. Central Missouri (15)
17. Cal State San Bernardino (18)
18. Lewis (19)
19. Metro State (20)
20. Ferris State (21)
21. Northwest Missouri State (16)
22. Colorado School of Mines (22)
23. Tampa (23)
24. Rockhurst (25)
25. Concordia (Calif.) (NR)
