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Fall 2026 · Through games Monday, October 19, 2026

Fall 2026 / CURRENT SEASON — live ncaa.com D1 women’s volleyball stats Through games Monday, October 19, 2026. Freshness: 2026-10-21 07:56 CT · 2026-10-21T12:56:40Z UTC · desk date 2026-10-21. Early-season small samples — treat rates as provisional.

Universe in this file: 343 teams · 1312 players · Source: ncaa.com · Mode: CURRENT_SEASON_2026

Categories ingested: 15 individual · 15 team

Sidearm roster expansion: ok = Pittsburgh, Louisville, Creighton, Florida, USC, SMU. JS-walled / empty = Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State, Texas, Stanford, Minnesota, Kansas, UCLA, Purdue, Texas A&M.

Coverage: National leaderboards include NCAA.com qualified leaders only (not every D1 player). Sidearm full-roster HTML available for: Pittsburgh, Louisville, Creighton, Florida, USC, SMU. JS-walled / empty: Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State, Texas, Stanford, Minnesota, Kansas, UCLA, Purdue, Texas A&M.

National kill leaders (2026)

Player Team Kills Sets K/S Hit% Kill% Err%
Allie Sweet UNC Greensboro 378 76 4.97 0.232 0.376 0.144
Jurnee Robinson LSU 342 68 5.03 0.242 0.407 0.165
Kalista Lukovich Eastern Wash. 339 78 4.35 0.217 0.329 0.112
Kiera Hamilton George Mason 338 73 4.63 0.215 0.399 0.184
Riley Rosneck Purdue Fort Wayne 338 81 4.17 0.257 0.361 0.104
Mallory Reck Marist 337 87 3.87 0.224 0.364 0.140
Bianna Muoneke Georgia 335 67 5.00 0.315 0.403 0.088
Sylvie Zgonc South Dakota St. 332 70 4.74 0.284 0.419 0.135
Mary Claire Deacy Siena 326 83 3.93 0.293 0.375 0.082
Kennedy Louisell James Madison 323 69 4.68 0.288 0.411 0.124

Kill% = K/TA · Err% = E/TA · Hit% = (K−E)/TA. Computed from ncaa.com counting stats — not Evollve RAPM / not sideout%.

Points leaders (PTS / PTS per set)

NCAA counting points ≈ K + SA + BS + ½ BA. Rows marked ≈ use that approximation when official PTS was missing from a leaderboard merge.

Player Team Pos PTS Sets PTS/S Note
Olivia Babcock Pittsburgh RS 360.0 58 6.21 ncaa.com
Allie Sweet UNC Greensboro OH 432.0 76 5.68 ncaa.com
Taylor Stanley Kansas OH 334.5 59 5.67 ncaa.com
Jurnee Robinson LSU OH 384.0 68 5.65 ncaa.com
Bianna Muoneke Georgia OH 373.0 67 5.57 ncaa.com
Kennedy Louisell James Madison OH 383.5 69 5.56 ncaa.com
Ksenia Rakhmanchik Baylor OH 308.0 58 5.31 ncaa.com
Mckenna Wucherer Minnesota OH 301.5 57 5.29 ncaa.com
Brooklyn DeLeye Kentucky OH 334.5 64 5.23 ncaa.com
Sylvie Zgonc South Dakota St. OH 365.0 70 5.21 ncaa.com

Overnight movers

Player Team Hit% Δ Kills Δ Digs Δ Blocks Δ Note
Rayishon Jackman Alabama A&M +0.005 +11 +12 +2 Season hit 0.238, 247 K / 255 D
Gerren Tomlin Alabama A&M — +4 +0 +0 Season hit —, 218 K / — D
Sophia Johnson Georgia St. +0.003 +3 +0 +0 Season hit 0.222, 238 K / 214 D
Aniyah Moore Mississippi Val. — +0 +0 +3 Season hit —, — K / — D
Akira Burt Georgia St. -0.002 -2 +0 +0 Season hit 0.217, 309 K / — D
Kryssa Moerman Washington St. +0.000 +0 +0 +2 Season hit 0.330, 96 K / — D
Olivia Lombardi Fresno St. — +0 +2 +0 Season hit —, — K / 216 D
Caleigh King UNLV — +0 +2 +0 Season hit —, — K / 220 D

Form notes (tracked teams with 2026 data)

Voice: sideout / transition / serve-receive pressure — only from Fall 2026 counting stats in this snapshot. Early-season caveat applies.

Nebraska

Pittsburgh

Louisville

Florida

Minnesota

Kansas

Kentucky

SMU

Stanford

Wisconsin

Purdue

Penn State

UCLA

Texas

Texas A&M

Creighton

USC

Tracked slate statistical rankings (2026)

Ranks among the tracked Daily Desk universe only (not full D1). Counting rates from this snapshot — early-season sample.

Team Hit% Opp Hit% Diff A/K K/S Digs/S Blk/S Aces/S Record
Nebraska 0.326 0.104 0.222 0.940 14.05 12.90 2.96 1.90 19-0
Pittsburgh 0.326 0.179 0.147 0.917 14.46 12.63 3.05 1.44 17-1
Louisville 0.313 0.151 0.162 0.910 14.27 15.24 2.98 1.56 18-2
Florida 0.283 0.168 0.115 0.927 13.61 13.89 2.84 1.61 15-2
Minnesota 0.282 0.178 0.104 0.937 13.56 14.09 2.48 2.04 11-5
Kansas 0.281 0.182 0.099 0.940 14.12 12.83 2.27 2.17 12-5
Kentucky 0.279 0.198 0.081 0.939 14.55 13.25 2.45 1.47 15-3
SMU 0.278 0.184 0.094 0.930 13.49 12.13 2.81 1.22 14-4
Stanford 0.274 0.213 0.061 0.931 13.40 14.33 2.33 1.29 12-6
Wisconsin 0.267 0.223 0.044 0.950 13.99 14.57 2.04 1.22 13-5
Purdue 0.255 0.189 0.066 0.949 13.60 14.87 2.62 1.00 11-6
Penn State 0.254 0.175 0.079 0.914 14.00 13.77 2.45 1.55 13-5
UCLA 0.253 0.206 0.047 0.927 13.44 13.59 2.73 1.24 15-4
Texas 0.235 0.220 0.015 0.949 13.72 13.32 2.09 1.10 9-7
Texas A&M 0.232 0.182 0.050 0.905 13.83 13.07 2.53 1.33 11-8
Creighton 0.208 0.180 0.028 0.912 12.44 14.26 2.50 1.44 11-9
USC 0.199 0.206 -0.007 0.922 12.48 13.27 2.86 1.24 8-10

Opp Hit% = opponent attack efficiency allowed (lower better). Diff = team Hit% − Opp Hit%. A/K = assists/kills (system distribution). Tracked-slate ranks only — early-season sample.

National Opp Hit% + hitting differential (team)

Lowest Opp Hit% allowed (better)

Team Opp Hit% Team Hit% Diff
Nebraska 0.104 0.326 0.222
Lehigh 0.132 0.259 0.127
Hawaii 0.133 0.232 0.099
UNI 0.135 0.216 0.081
Colorado St. 0.142 0.233 0.091
Delaware St. 0.150 0.178 0.028
Louisville 0.151 0.313 0.162
San Diego 0.152 0.232 0.080
Arizona St. 0.156 0.249 0.093
Providence 0.157 0.222 0.065

Highest hitting differential (Hit% − Opp Hit%)

Team Diff Hit% Opp Hit%
Nebraska 0.222 0.326 0.104
Louisville 0.162 0.313 0.151
Pittsburgh 0.147 0.326 0.179
Lehigh 0.127 0.259 0.132
BYU 0.125 0.310 0.185
Michigan St. 0.123 0.289 0.166
Tennessee 0.115 0.297 0.182
Florida 0.115 0.283 0.168
Minnesota 0.104 0.282 0.178
Kansas 0.099 0.281 0.182

Source: ncaa.com Opp Hitting Percentage + Hitting Percentage. Opp Hit% mixes block, dig, serve pressure, and opponent talent — not pure “defense.”

Matchup previews (statistical comparison)

Side-by-side Fall 2026 counting rates for scout context. No win probabilities assigned.

Pittsburgh vs Nebraska

Wisconsin vs Louisville

Texas vs Stanford

Penn State vs Creighton

Kentucky vs SMU

Purdue vs Texas A&M

Player watchlist

Efficiency leaders (min 25 attacks — early threshold)

Player Team Pos Hit% Kill% Err% Kills Attacks Kill share
Natalia Newsome SMU MB 0.524 0.602 0.078 124 206 14%
Taina Kaauwai Portland MB 0.521 0.601 0.080 158 263 20%
Andi Jackson Nebraska MB 0.469 0.594 0.125 152 256 18%
Kayla Dunlap Vanderbilt MB 0.464 0.601 0.137 92 153 11%
Alaina Lester Southeast Mo. St. MB 0.455 0.512 0.057 125 244 12%
Alec Rothe Florida MB 0.442 0.558 0.117 153 274 18%
Nya Bunton Texas MB 0.441 0.511 0.070 95 186 12%
Manaia Ogbechie Nebraska MB 0.440 0.565 0.125 113 200 13%

Kill share = player kills ÷ team kills (usage among terminators). Not the same as Evollve % Tm Pts Plyd (on-court point share).

Kill% leaders (attack-qualified, min 25 TA)

Player Team Kill% Err% Hit% TA
Natalia Newsome SMU 0.602 0.078 0.524 206
Taina Kaauwai Portland 0.601 0.080 0.521 263
Kayla Dunlap Vanderbilt 0.601 0.137 0.464 153
Andi Jackson Nebraska 0.594 0.125 0.469 256
Brooke Bultema Louisville 0.570 0.182 0.388 242
Manaia Ogbechie Nebraska 0.565 0.125 0.440 200
Alec Rothe Florida 0.558 0.117 0.442 274
Hannah Sanders Delaware St. 0.547 0.140 0.407 258
Olivia Burrage Kennesaw St. 0.543 0.138 0.405 405
Kristina Starostenko Illinois 0.542 0.120 0.422 275

Usage / kill-share leaders (min 25 TA)

Breakout / high-rate watch

Efficiency risk (volume + sub-.150 hit, early)

Methodology

  1. Ingest (scripts/ingest_stats.py) scrapes ncaa.com current-season individual + team leaderboards (paginated), caches raw HTML under data/raw/YYYY-MM-DD-live/, and merges into data/processed/.
  2. Sidearm school pages are attempted for tracked programs; only server-rendered HTML tables are parsed. JS-walled sites are documented, not fabricated.
  3. stats.ncaa.org is not used (Akamai blocks from this environment).
  4. Prior-season calibration CSVs are not the published desk narrative.
  5. Movers diff against a previous CURRENT_SEASON_2026 snapshot when present.
  6. Form notes, tracked rankings, and matchup previews use only 2026 counting stats in this snapshot. Early-season small-sample caveats are intentional — rates move quickly with more sets.
  7. Advanced counting derived here: Kill% (K/TA), Err% (E/TA), PTS/PTS/S, Opp Hit%, hitting differential, assists/kills, and kill share (player K ÷ team K). These are not Evollve RAPM, not % Tm Pts Plyd, and not sideout%/FBSO.
  8. Side-out % and point-scoring % are computed separately from ncaa.com play-by-play — see Side-out % vs Point-scoring %. Service errors (SE) and RAPM remain teach-only.

Further reading (stat literacy)

Generated 2026-10-21T12:56:40Z · label CURRENT_SEASON_2026 · 1312 players / 343 teams · Through games Monday, October 19, 2026

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