The Wayne State volleyball team remained at No. 15 in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association Div. II Top 25 coaches poll released Monday afternoon.
The Wildcats went 1-1 last week to close the regular season, falling at home in four sets to No. 11 St. Cloud State Friday night, followed by a three-game sweep over Minnesota Duluth Saturday.
The Wildcats are one of five Northern Sun Conference schools in this week’s top 25, led by No. 8 Winona State. Also in are No. 11 St. Cloud State, No. 13 Concordia-St. Paul and No. 16 Southwest Minnesota State.
Other Central Region schools in the top 25 include MIAA schools Central Missouri (3), Northwest Missouri State (4), Washburn (5) and Nebraska-Kearney (12), along with Great American Conference leader Oklahoma Baptist at No. 23.
The 21-7 Wildcats face Northern State in the first round of the Northern Sun Conference tournament on Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.
This week’s AVCA Div. II Top 25 is as follows (last week’s ranking in parenthesis):
1. MSU Denver (1)
2. Cal State San Bernardino (3)
3. Central Missouri (4)
4. NW Missouri State (5)
5. Washburn (2)
6. Angelo State (6)
7. West Florida (7)
8. Winona State (8)
9. Tampa (9)
10. Colorado School of Mines (10)
11. St. Cloud State (11)
12. Nebraska-Kearney (12)
13. Concordia-St. Paul (14)
14. Western Washington (16)
15. Wayne State (15)
16. SW Minnesota State (17)
17. Texas-Tyler (13)
18. Hillsdale (18)
19. Cal Poly Pomona (19)
20. Michigan Tech (21)
21. Lewis (20)
22. Nova Southeastern (22)
23. Oklahoma Baptist (24)
24. Chaminade (25)
25. Regis (23)
