Volleyball Ranked Sixth in Final Regular-Season AVCA Poll

OMAHA, Neb. -- The Creighton Volleyball team didn't drop a set en route to winning its fifth straight BIG EAST Tournament, but it wasn't enough to keep the Bluejays from dropping a spot to No. 6 in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 25 poll of the regular-season. It's a program record 13th consecutive Top 10 ranking for CU, as the Bluejays were in the Top 10 for 12 consecutive weeks from Sept. 10 - Nov. 26, 2018.

This is the 34th time overall the Bluejays have been in the Top 10.

Winners of 22 straight matches, during which time it has dropped just four sets, Creighton improved to 29-2 this season following 3-0 wins over DePaul and Marquette last weekend to win its 10th BIG EAST Tournament title in the past 11 years. The Bluejays have now won 35 consecutive contests against league foes.

The Bluejays are one of 14 schools (along with Baylor, Florida, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisville, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Pitt, Purdue, Stanford, Texas and Wisconsin) to have been ranked each of the last 61 polls. Creighton has been ranked in all but six of the past 130 weeks the AVCA has put out a Top 25 poll and 138 times in program history, which ranks 39th-most all-time. Creighton is 230-47 all-time when playing as a ranked team in the AVCA poll. This is the 13th straight campaign that Creighton has spent at least one week in the Top 25.

Six of Creighton's 2024 opponents are ranked in this week's poll. The Bluejays have already beaten then-No. 20 (and current No. 19) USC on Sept. 5th, and lost five-set road matches at then-No. 5 (and current No. 3) Nebraska (Sept. 10) and then-No. 4 (and current No. 4) Louisville (Sept. 15). CU also went to Lawrence, Kan., where it beat then-No. 6 (and current No. 9) Purdue (Sept. 20) as well as then-No. 10 (and current No. 12) Kansas (Sept. 21). Missouri, a team Creighton swept on Aug. 31st in Omaha is ranked for a fourth straight week, coming in at No. 25. Marquette, whom Creighton has beaten three times, is among those teams "also receiving votes". Florida State, which is headed to Omaha this weekend to play Ole Miss in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, comes in at No. 21 this week.

Pittsburgh, Penn State, Nebraska and Louisville remained in front of Creighton, while Stanford leap-frogged the Jays after knocking off Louisville on Saturday.

The Bluejays held steady at No. 6 in the nine Monday edition this fall of the NCAA's official RPI and moved down one spot to No. 6 in the 11th VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll of the season.

Creighton returns to the court on Thursday at 7 p.m. when it hosts South Dakota in the First Round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament.

Dec. 2 AVCA/TARAFLEX Division I WVB Poll

Rank	School (First-Place Votes Adjusted)	Total Points Adjusted	Record	Previous Week
1	Pittsburgh [59]	1,523	29-1	1
2	Penn State [1]	1,432	29-2	4
3	Nebraska [1]	1,414	29-2	2
4	Louisville	1,305	25-5	3
5	Stanford	1,295	25-4	6
6	Creighton	1,232	29-2	5
7	Wisconsin	1,165	23-6	7
8	Arizona State	1,065	29-2	8
9	Purdue	1,039	25-6	9
10	SMU	906	24-7	10
11	Kentucky	892	20-7	12
12	Kansas	835	24-4	11
13	Texas	804	18-6	14
14	Oregon	795	22-7	13
15	Minnesota	630	20-10	15
16	Baylor	567	22-7	16
17	Utah	533	24-5	17
18	Georgia Tech	396	20-9	19
19	Southern California	385	21-9	20
20	TCU	344	21-7	22
21	Florida State	304	21-9	21
22	Florida	262	21-7	18
23	Dayton	208	29-2	23
24	BYU	132	19-9	RV
25	Missouri	113	20-8	24

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: North Carolina 69; Miami (FL) 40; Texas A&M 32; Marquette 30; Western Kentucky 13; South Dakota State 5.

Volleyball Ranked Sixth in Final Regular-Season AVCA Poll

Dec. 2 AVCA/TARAFLEX Division I WVB Poll

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