Volleyball remains No. 6 in the AVCA poll

By: Rob Anderson

OMAHA, Neb. – After a week in which the top 10 teams in the country were 19-0 overall, the Creighton volleyball team maintained its best ranking in program history at No. 6 in the AVCA/Taraflex Top 25 Coaches Poll released Monday, 7 .October.

It's the 26th time overall that Creighton has finished in the top 10 and the fifth straight week this season. This is the 13th straight campaign in which Creighton has spent at least one week in the top 25.

The Bluejays are one of 15 schools (along with Baylor, BYU, Florida, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisville, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Pitt, Purdue, Stanford, Texas and Wisconsin) ranked one in each of the last 53 polls have documented. Creighton has been ranked in all but six of the last 122 weeks that the AVCA has conducted a Top 25 poll and 130 times in program history, ranking 40th all-time. Creighton is 214-47 all-time when playing as a ranked team in the AVCA poll.

Five of Creighton's 2024 opponents are listed in this week's poll. The Bluejays have already beaten the then No. 1 team. 20 (and current No. 16) USC on September 5, losing five road games at then-No. 16. 5 (and current No. 2) Nebraska (Sept. 10) and then-No. 4 (and current No. 4) Louisville (September 15). CU also went to Lawrence, Kan., where it defeated then-No. 6 (and current No. 10) Purdue (September 20) and then-No. 10 (and current No. 8) Kansas (September 21). BIG EAST rival Marquette is among the teams also receiving votes.

The top five in this week's poll remained the same: Pittsburgh, Nebraska, Penn State, Louisville and Stanford.

The Bluejays moved up one spot to No. 5 in the third VolleyballMag Super 16 media poll of the season and are also ranked No. 6 in the first Monday edition of the NCAA's official RPI this fall.

Creighton (13-2, 4-0 BIG EAST) returns to the court with two road games this week, facing Villanova (11-4, 4-0 BIG EAST) on Friday at 5 p.m. before hosting St. John's (13-5, 2-2 BIG EAST) on Saturday at 4 p.m

Oct. 7 AVCA/TARAFLEX Division I WVB Poll