beThe Minnesota volleyball team (13-2, 3-1) remained No. 9 in the USA Today/AVCA weekly poll, which was released on Monday, Oct. 3. Minnesota received 1,081 points in the poll.

Minnesota has now been ranked in the top 10 in the last 23 polls dating back to the final 2003 poll. The Golden Gophers have also been ranked in the top 25 for 31 straight weeks, which is the second-longest span in school history.

There were five Big Ten teams ranked in the top 25 this week. Penn State was the highest ranked team at No. 4, followed by No. 8 Wisconsin, Minnesota at No. 9, Ohio State at No. 18 and Purdue at No. 22..

Minnesota swept a pair of three-game matches against Michigan and Michigan State this past week to move to 3-1 in Big Ten play. It is the seventh time in 10 years that Minnesota has started 3-1 or better under Mike Hebert in conference play.

Rank School (First-Place Votes) Total Points * 2005 Record Last Week 1 Nebraska (58) 1,498 13-0 1 2 Washington (2) 1,434 12-0 2 3 Stanford 1,385 15-1 3 4 Penn State 1,318 13-2 4 5 Florida 1,183 14-1 5 6 Louisville 1,165 14-0 6 7 Missouri 1,157 12-0 7 8 Wisconsin 1,104 12-1 8 9 Minnesota 1,051 13-2 9 10 Notre Dame 959 11-1 10 11 Hawai'i 829 9-6 11 12 Arizona 761 11-2 13 13 California 754 11-2 14 14 Santa Clara 689 13-1 15 15 San Diego 632 11-2 12 16 Brigham Young 525 11-0 20 17 Southern California 498 5-6 19 18 Ohio State 484 9-4 18 19 Texas 437 9-2 22 20 Kansas State 403 12-3 16 21 UCLA 342 7-5 17 22 Purdue 300 12-3 21 23 Texas A&M 136 7-6 23 24 Ohio 116 14-2 NR 25 Maryland 85 14-0 NR Others receiving points and listed on two or more ballots: Saint Mary's (Calif.) 58, LSU 57, Long Beach State 44, Pepperdine 27, UC Santa Barbara 16, Loyola Marymount 13, Kansas 12, Tennessee 10, Western Kentucky 5.