Huskers only unbeaten after Citadel falls; Dayton rolls on; B1G wins for MSU,

Top-ranked Nebraska, which swept Rutgers, is the lone unbeaten in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball.

The Citadel (23-1) won’t run the table, because the Bulldogs lost their SoCon match in five at Western Carolina. 

Dayton is the first to 25 victories. The Flyers, ranked No. 16 in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, swept their Atlantic 10 match at George Washington.

There were two Big Ten surprises, when Michigan State knocked off No. 13 Penn State in five for its first win over the Nittany Lions since 2013, and Illinois beat AVCA No. 16 Purdue in four.

Line of the day: Panna Ratkai had 33 kills, hit .305, and had five aces, 13 digs and a block for Purdue Fort Wayne in a five-set win at IUPUI. The Hungarian redshirt-freshman had 35 kills in a match eight days earlier.

There’s a showdown in the SEC as No. 10 Arkansas goes to No. 15 Florida. Arkansas (19-3, 9-1) is tied with idle Kentucky (11-7, 9-1) atop the standings, while Florida (14-4, 6-3) is alone in fourth. Third-place No. 12 Tennessee (17-3, 8-2) is home for Texas A&M, Mississippi State is at Georgia, South Carolina is at LSU and Missouri is at Ole Miss.

In the ACC, Miami (8-3), two games off the lead, has a chance to close the gap when it plays at No. 4 Louisville (10-1). Seventh-ranked Pittsburgh (10-1) is home for Wake Forest. Both 9-2 second-place teams are in action when No. 11 Georgia Tech is at Syracuse and Florida State is at Notre Dame. Also, NC State is at North Carolina, Clemson is at Boston College and Virginia Tech is at Virginia.

Stanford, holding a two-game Pac-12 lead over three teams, plays at one of them, AVCA No. 21 Arizona State. Sixth-ranked Washington State is home for Oregon State, No. 8 Oregon is at Washington, USC goes to Utah, Cal is at Arizona and UCLA is at Colorado.

The three Big Ten matches show No. 2 Wisconsin home for Minnesota, Indiana at Northwestern and Ohio State at Michigan.

AVCA No. 22 Houston plays one of the two Big 12 matches when the Cougars go to Cincinnati and Oklahoma is at Iowa State.

And Saint Peter’s and Hampton give it another try. Saint Peter’s, 0-25, which hit .000 and lost its MAAC match Saturday to Iona, plays host to Manhattan. Hampton (0-15) goes back to Elon, where it lost its CAA match Saturday.

Want to watch? We have the conference-by-conference schedule with viewing links for any match that is being shown in our VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings.

BIG TEN: Michigan State (14-9, 6-6) won a wild one over visiting Penn State (15-6, 9-3) 25-19, 11-25, 16-25, 25-18, 18-16 to break a 13-match losing streak against the Nittany Lions. Michigan State beat Penn State at home for the first time since 2002 and beat a ranked team for the first time since 2007. The Spartans hit just .156, but Penn State hit .135. MSU led 11-6 in the fifth, Penn State rallied, and then the Spartans fought off match point at 16-15…