Two Minnesota teams are dancing in the NCAA DI volleyball tournament set to start this weekend, with one making a historic debut.The University of St. Thomas will compete in its first postseason tournament after winning the Summit League championship.

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The TCU Horned Frogs have returned to the NCAA Volleyball tournament. Head coach Jason Williams has his team in the tournament for the fourth straight year, and just the seventh time overall for this program. TCU earned the sixth seed in the upper left quadrant and will compete in the College Station Regional.

The Arizona State Sun Devils volleyball team earned a No. 2 seed and will be at home for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.

St. Thomas volleyball has made history, earning its first-ever berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament — soon after the university became the first school to jump directly from D-III to D-I. University of St.

The NET replaced the RPI as an official selection committee criteria prior to the 2018-19 season. It is a results-based metric. Most of the top 10 in the NET rankings correlate to the most recent AP Top 25 poll but with a few notable exceptions.

Then, Ritarita displayed the immense offensive talent that landed him on the All-Big Ten Freshman Team. He dribbled past two defenders and blasted a shot past Huskies goalkeeper Kyle Durham from the edge of the 18-yard box. That unassisted score gave Maryland a two-goal lead before halftime, the decisive moments in a 3-0 win over the Huskies.

Minnesota will now carry a 4-4 record into its first Big Ten game of the season on Wednesday, December 3, against Indiana. The Hoosiers have started the season 6-0 under first-year head coach Darian DeVries, with notable wins over Marquette and Kansas State.