1.   Volleyball Monthly ranked the team third in the nation.

2.   All three teams were ranked, and all three probably expected to find the same stumbling Buckeye team from a year ago.

3.   Both teams should be ranked in the preseason top five.

4.   Bowls were created not to rank the teams in the postseason but to increase tourism and generate business during the winter.

5.   A team that has already faced three ranked teams and won.

6.   But Big East officials also feel that at least one team will be ranked somewhere, no matter what happens.

7.   He had Marcus Camby and his team was ranked first in the nation.

8.   If a Western Athletic or Conference USA team is ranked sixth or higher, it automatically gets an at-large alliance bowl bid.

9.   John Cooper, whose Ohio State team is ranked second, applied at Kansas when Don Fambrough was rehired and at Missouri when Woody Widenhofer was hired.

10.   No conference had as many teams ranked as high.