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Volleyball Ends Season Ranked 10th in Final AVCA Poll
OMAHA, Neb. — The Creighton Volleyball team was ranked a season-best No. 10 in the year-end poll by the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced on Monday, Dec. 22nd. It’s the 11th appearance in the year-end poll in program history, with the 2024 squad earning the best mark at No. 6.
Creighton is one of eight schools (Creighton, Kentucky, Louisville, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin) to be in the Top 10 of the year-end poll in both 2024 and 2025.
This is the 11th season that Creighton has been ranked in the year-end poll — all since 2012 — and fifth straight campaign. The only nine programs to be in the year-end AVCA poll each of the past five seasons are Baylor, Creighton, Kentucky, Louisville, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Stanford and Texas.
The Bluejays are one of 10 schools (along with Baylor, Kentucky, Louisville, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Stanford, Texas and Wisconsin) to have been ranked each of the last 78 polls. The streak began on Sept. 6, 2021 and is a program-record. This year also marks the seventh time that Creighton has been ranked in all 16 polls of a season, joining 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. It is also the 36th week overall the Bluejays have been in the Top 10.
Creighton has been ranked in all but six of the past 147 weeks the AVCA has put out a Top 25 poll and 155 times in program history, which ranks 37th-most all-time. Creighton is 261-54 all-time when playing as a ranked team in the AVCA poll. This was the 14th straight campaign that Creighton has spent at least one week in the Top 25.
The year-end top five in the poll consisted of Texas A&M, Kentucky, Nebraska, Pittsburgh and Wisconsin.
Over the last 18 seasons from 2008-2025, 333-of-450 teams (74.0 percent) of teams have been in both the preseason and final polls. Of the teams ranked in the preseason poll released in August, all but preseason No. 2 Penn State, No. 16 Florida, No. 17 Missouri, No. 18 UCLA, No. 22 Georgia Tech, No. 23 Utah and No. 24 Dayton were also ranked in the final poll. Creighton started the 2025 season ranked 12th in the preseason.
In those same 18 seasons from 2008-2025, 408-of-450 teams (90.7 percent) in the preseason top-25 polls would go on to reach the NCAA Tournament, as all but preseason No. 17 Missouri and No. 24 Dayton reached the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
In the year-end version of the official NCAA RPI, Creighton finished No. 7.
| Ranking | Year |
| 24th | 2012 |
| 19th | 2015 |
| 9th | 2016 |
| 16th | 2017 |
| 13th | 2018 |
| 16th | 2019 |
| 22nd | 2021 |
| 21st | 2022 |
| 15th | 2023 |
| 6th | 2024 |
| 10th | 2025 |
Dec. 22 AVCA/TARAFLEX Division I Final WVB Poll
|
Rank
|
School (First-Place Votes Adjusted)
|
Total Points Adjusted
|
Record
|
Previous Week
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
Texas A&M [61]
|
1,525
|
29-4
|
6
|
|
2
|
Kentucky
|
1,452
|
30-3
|
2
|
|
3
|
Nebraska
|
1,385
|
33-1
|
1
|
|
4
|
Pittsburgh
|
1,338
|
30-5
|
4
|
|
5
|
Wisconsin
|
1,310
|
28-5
|
10
|
|
6
|
Texas
|
1,192
|
26-4
|
3
|
|
7
|
Stanford
|
1,072
|
29-5
|
5
|
|
8
|
Purdue
|
1,052
|
27-7
|
12
|
|
9
|
Louisville
|
1,037
|
26-7
|
9
|
|
10
|
Creighton
|
1,012
|
28-6
|
11
|
|
11
|
SMU
|
904
|
27-6
|
7
|
|
12
|
Arizona State
|
879
|
28-4
|
8
|
|
13
|
Indiana
|
732
|
25-8
|
15
|
|
14
|
Kansas
|
708
|
24-11
|
16
|
|
15
|
Minnesota
|
685
|
24-10
|
17
|
|
16
|
Miami (FL)
|
596
|
27-6
|
13
|
|
17
|
Southern California
|
478
|
25-7
|
14
|
|
18
|
TCU
|
424
|
21-11
|
20
|
|
19
|
North Carolina
|
362
|
22-9
|
19
|
|
20
|
Baylor
|
343
|
18-10
|
21
|
|
21
|
Cal Poly
|
256
|
27-8
|
NR
|
|
T-22
|
Colorado
|
232
|
23-9
|
24
|
|
T-22
|
Iowa State
|
232
|
23-8
|
23
|
|
24
|
Tennessee
|
178
|
20-8
|
18
|
|
25
|
BYU
|
107
|
22-9
|
22
|
Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Penn State 82; Marquette 43; Utah State 39; Kansas State 36; Michigan 30; Florida 29; Northern Iowa 29; UCLA 23; Western Kentucky 14; San Diego 11; UTEP 3