My bad, everyone.
I just presumed that Marquette volleyball beating Villanova and Georgetown on the road last weekend to move to 17-7 on the season and 12-2 in Big East play wasn’t going to get the attention of AVCA top 25 voters. The Golden Eagle slipped out of the voting back at the end of August and when toppling an unranked (but receiving votes!) Creighton team didn’t help MU out, I just presumed there was no pathway back to the national spotlight. Yes, the bigger issue there was losing to DePaul
as well, and then Marquette lost their home contest to Creighton on top of that.
I just presumed there was no more top 25 votes to be had for MU this season.
WRONG.
As I was putting together the preview for this weekend’s regular season finale, I went to the AVCA’s website to go see where Creighton was in the preseason to make a point about Marquette’s quest for a Big East title, and well, would you look at that! Marquette has four AVCA top 25 points worth of votes this week. That means they have at least two voters putting the Golden Eagles on their ballots, as the AVCA leaves out anyone with just one vote.
Wisconsin is the top ranked team on Marquette’s schedule this week, sitting at #9 in the top 25. They were #7 a week ago, so they’re not having fun. Texas is down three spots this week to #16, and Stanford slipped from #23 to #24 right now. Marquette lost to all of those teams, but they did get a home-and-home weekend split with Illinois, who moves from receiving votes last week to #25 in the country this week. I’d imagine that had to help attention on Marquette a little bit.
You’re not misreading this: Creighton is nowhere to be found here, not even in the Receiving Votes department.
Marquette wraps up the regular season with two home matches this weekend. They’ll host Seton Hall on Friday night while St. John’s faces DePaul the same night then comes north to Milwaukee for a Saturday night showdown. Two wins by Marquette clinches at least a share of the Big East regular season title, as both MU and Creighton are 12-2 in conference play right now. Both matches will be streamed on ESPN+.
You can check out the entire top 25 right here.
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