San Diego (15-2) was the unanimous No. 1 in this week’s VolleyballMag.com Mid-Major Poll, getting all 10 first-place votes from a diverse panel of coaches from different conferences around the country.
West Coast Conference rival BYU (16-2) regained the second spot.
Western Kentucky (17-2) moved up from No. 4 to third, and Creighton (12-6) took over the fourth spot. Hawai’i (12-5), last week’s No. 2, dropped to fifth after losing at Long Beach State. Long Beach (12-7) is tied for sixth with Dayton, which has the best record in the poll at 18-1.
UNLV (16-2) stayed at No. 20.
San Diego State (12-7), which went 3-0 last week in the Mountain West, joined the poll at No. 25.
| Rank | School | Total Points Adjusted | First Place Votes Adjusted | Win/Loss Record | Previous Rank |
| 1 | San Diego | 250 | 10 | 15-2 | 1 |
| 2 | BYU | 238 | 0 | 16-2 | 3 |
| 3 | Western Kentucky | 225 | 0 | 17-2 | 4 |
| 4 | Creighton | 217 | 0 | 12-6 | 5 |
| 5 | Hawai’i | 205 | 0 | 12-5 | 2 |
| T-6 | Dayton | 196 | 0 | 18-1 | 6 |
| T-6 | Long Beach State | 196 | 0 | 12-7 | 7 |
| 8 | Wichita State | 185 | 0 | 12-5 | 8 |
| 9 | Marquette | 168 | 0 | 15-4 | 9 |
| 10 | Missouri State | 148 | 0 | 13-7 | 11 |
| 11 | Colorado State | 146 | 0 | 11-5 | 13 |
| 12 | Coastal Carolina | 112 | 0 | 13-4 | 15 |
| 13 | Southern Illinois | 102 | 0 | 15-6 | 17 |
| 14 | Northern Iowa | 101 | 0 | 13-7 | 16 |
| 15 | Arkansas State | 95 | 0 | 13-7 | 12 |
| 16 | Loyola Marymount | 89 | 0 | 12-6 | 10 |
| 17 | Cal Poly | 86 | 0 | 10-6 | 21 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 77 | 0 | 11-7 | 18 |
| 19 | UT San Antonio | 73 | 0 | 12-4 | 14 |
| 20 | UNLV | 69 | 0 | 16-2 | 20 |
| 21 | Lipscomb | 39 | 0 | 10-6 | 19 |
| T-22 | Miami, Ohio | 35 | 0 | 13-4 | 25 |
| T-22 | South Dakota | 35 | 0 | 17-2 | 24 |
| 24 | UC Santa Barbara | 31 | 0 | 11-7 | 23 |
| 25 | San Diego State | 23 | 0 | 12-7 | NR |
Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Boise State 20, Northern Arizona 19, Villanova 14, Kennesaw State 9, UCF 6.
9 teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 41 combined points.
Dropped Out: Northern Arizona 22.
The VolleyballMag.com Mid-Major Poll includes all teams not in the “power-five” conferences, the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12.
The pollsters
— Dan Conners, UC Davis
— Brian Doyon, Montana
— Greg Goral, Campbell University
— Kris Grunwald, UConn
— Justin Ingram, Southern Illinois University
— Steve Loeswick, North Florida
— Kent Miller, Saint Louis University
— Coley Pawlikowski, Stony Brook
— Jennifer Petrie, University of San Diego
— Dave Rehr, Arkansas State University
The conferences from which the teams will come:
— America East
— American Athletic
— Atlantic Sun
— Atlantic 10
— Big East
— Big Sky
— Big South
— Big West
— Colonial
— Conference USA
— Horizon League
— Ivy
— Metro Atlantic
— Mid-American
— Mid-Eastern
— Missouri Valley
— Mountain West
— Northeast
— Ohio Valley
— Patriot
— Southern
— Southland
— Southwestern
— Summit
— Sun Belt
— West Coast
— Western Athletic
