The vote is still split, with five different teams getting first-place nods, but the top six teams all stayed the same in the VolleyballMag.com Mid-Major Poll.
Western Kentucky is No. 1, followed by BYU, San Diego, Creighton, Hawai’i and Dayton. All of those teams won both their matches last week. WKU, 13-0 in Conference USA, is 26-2 with the second-best overall record in the nation, behind Dayton, which is 26-1, 12-0 in the Atlantic 10.
Missouri State is No. 7, trading places with No. 8 Marquette.
There were no major jumps, but Cleveland State, which has ruled the Horizon League this season at 22-4 overall and 13-1 in the conference, broke in at No. 25.
Rank | School | Total Points Adjusted | First Place Votes Adjusted | Win/Loss Record | Previous Rank |
1 | Western Kentucky | 239 | 4 | 26-2 | 1 |
2 | BYU | 237 | 1 | 22-3 | 2 |
3 | San Diego | 230 | 3 | 21-3 | 3 |
4 | Creighton | 224 | 1 | 20-6 | 4 |
5 | Hawai’i | 209 | 1 | 18-5 | 5 |
6 | Dayton | 204 | 0 | 26-1 | 6 |
7 | Missouri State | 183 | 0 | 21-7 | 8 |
8 | Marquette | 180 | 0 | 21-5 | 7 |
9 | Wichita State | 162 | 0 | 18-7 | 10 |
10 | Long Beach State | 158 | 0 | 17-9 | 9 |
11 | Coastal Carolina | 151 | 0 | 21-4 | 11 |
12 | Northern Iowa | 140 | 0 | 19-8 | 12 |
13 | Arkansas State | 135 | 0 | 22-7 | 13 |
14 | Colorado State | 114 | 0 | 17-7 | 14 |
15 | Loyola Marymount | 93 | 0 | 17-9 | 15 |
16 | Boise State | 83 | 0 | 20-6 | 19 |
17 | Lipscomb | 80 | 0 | 18-7 | 19 |
18 | Southern Illinois | 75 | 0 | 20-9 | 17 |
19 | Miami, Ohio | 64 | 0 | 20-5 | 16 |
20 | Cal Poly | 51 | 0 | 15-8 | 22 |
T-21 | SMU | 38 | 0 | 19-7 | 21 |
T-21 | UNLV | 38 | 0 | 21-5 | 17 |
23 | UT San Antonio | 33 | 0 | 18-6 | 24 |
24 | UC Santa Barbara | 24 | 0 | 16-9 | 25 |
25 | Cleveland State | 21 | 0 | 22-4 | NR |
Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Northern Illinois 16, UCF 15, Cincinnati 14, Northern Arizona 11, Florida Gulf Coast 9, Wyoming 4.
4 teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 16 combined points.
Dropped Out: South Dakota 23.
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