The Wayne State volleyball team remained second in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association Div. II Top 25 Coaches Poll.
The Wildcats collected 15 first-place votes and 1,141 points in voting from coaches across the country, trailing only MSU Denver. The Wildcats continue to lead a group of five Northern Sun Conference teams in this week’s top 10, which includes No. 3 Concordia-St. Paul, No. 4 Minnesota Duluth, No. 7 Southwest Minnesota State and No. 9 St. Cloud State.
Other Central Region teams ranked in the top 25 include MIAA schools Northwest Missouri State (10), Nebraska-Kearney (12), Washburn (20) and Central Oklahoma (21), and 25th-ranked Harding from the Great American Conference (GAC). Also receiving votes this week were Central Missouri out of the MIAA and Sioux Falls from the NSIC.
This week’s AVCA Div. II Coaches Top 25 Poll is as follows (last week’s rank in parenthesis):
1. MSU Denver (1)
2. Wayne State (2)
3. Concordia-St. Paul (3)
4. Minnesota Duluth (5)
5. Alaska Anchorage (6)
6. Tampa (4)
7. SW Minnesota State (7)
8. Western Washington (9)
9. St. Cloud State (8)
10. NW Missouri State (10)
11. West Texas A&M (11)
12. Nebraska-Kearney (12)
13. West Florida (13)
14. Regis (14)
15 Cal State San Bernardino (16)
16, Barry (18)
17. Colorado Mesa (15)
18. Cal State Los Angeles (19)
19. Quincy (20)
20. Washburn (17)
21. Central Oklahoma (21)
22. Colorado School of Mines (22)
23. Cal Poly Pomona (23)
24. Harding (NR)
25. Wingate (NR)
