The American Volleyball Coaches Association released their first in-season poll of the 2016 season on Monday, and YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles did not jump into the top 25 after defeating former #7 USC to open the season.
Sure, you can make the argument that Marquette didn’t deserve to bump up from an unofficial #38 in the preseason poll because they did lose to Santa Clara, who did not get any votes at all in that edition of the rankings. However, I suspect that USC starting out the season 0-3 with losses to that same Santa Clara team as well as UC-Irvine did more damage to MU’s chances at the top 25 than anything else.