Posted at 3:19 p.m., Monday, December 4, 2006
Rainbow Wahine ranked No. 11
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawaii, which defeated Oregon and Long Beach State in last week's NCAA Tournament, moved up a spot to No. 11 in the CSTV/AVCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll.UH returned home and will host the Honolulu Regional as the sweet 16 of women's college volleyball takes place.
UH (28-5) will face No. 6 USC (27-4) on Friday at Stan Sheriff. In the other match, No. 4 UCLA (31-3) plays No. 12 Oklahoma (28-5). The winners of Friday's matches play Saturday. The Saturday winner will advance to the NCAA women's volleyball final four in Omaha, Neb.
The poll released Monday:
First-place votes in parenthesis
Pts. Rec. PV
1. Nebraska (53) 1490 29-1 1
2. Stanford (7) 1436 27-3 2
3. Washington 1355 27-4 3
4. UCLA 1314 31-3 4
5. Penn State 1274 31-2 5
6. USC 1205 27-4 6
7. Florida 1151 30-2 7
8. Texas 1071 23-6 8
9. Minnesota 1015 25-7 9
10. Wisconsin 956 26-6 10
11. Hawai'i 874 28-5 12
12. Oklahoma 836 28-5 13
13. California 763 22-9 15
14. San Diego 672 26-5 17
15. Utah 654 28-4 11
16. Ohio St. 624 25-7 18
17. Cal Poly SLO 536 23-6 14
18. Purdue 460 23-10 23
19. LSU 412 26-6 16
20. BYU 283 25-6 22
21. New Mexico St. 188 33-4 19
22. Duke 178 29-4 25
23. Missouri 151 18-13 NR
24. Ohio 141 28-5 20
25. Santa Clara 118 20-8 21
Others receiving votes and appearing on two or more ballots: Colorado 102; Long Beach St. 80; Pepperdine 46; Iowa St. 43; St. John's 25; Kentucky 17; Colorado St. 10; Middle Tennessee St. 6; Northern Iowa 4; Arizona St. 2.
