BATON ROUGE – The LSU beach volleyball team came in at No. 10 and No. 11 in the AVCA and DiG Magazine polls, respectively, it was announced Monday.
This is the 14th consecutive week the Tigers have been ranked in the top-10 in the AVCA poll.
LSU went 1-3 at the Gamecock Grandslam in Charleston, S.C. over the weekend. The Tigers fell to No. 11 Georgia State, No. 1 Pepperdine and No. 9 South Carolina. The team beat Jacksonville State with a 5-0 sweep on Saturday.
LSU’s first home tournament of the season will take place at Mango’s off of Sherwood Forrest in Baton Rouge, March 24-25. The Tigers will take on No. 20 FAU, No. 17 Stetson, and New Orleans on Saturday before taking on the College of Charleston and No. 18 Tulane on Sunday.
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AVCA Coaches Top 20
1 Pepperdine 15-2 1
2 UCLA 14-3 2
3 Hawai’i 13-3 5
4 Southern California 11-6 3
5 Long Beach State 7-1 8
6 Florida State 12-5 4
7 Cal Poly 12-2 6
8 South Carolina 12-2 9
9 Georgia State 12-5 11
10 LSU 7-9 7
11 Arizona 9-3 10
12 Grand Canyon 7-7 12
13 Florida International 10-5 13
14 Stanford 8-4 14
15 Loyola Marymount 7-6 16
16 California 11-1 19
17 Stetson 10-5 15
18 Tulane 9-3 17
19 Washington 2-1 18
20 Florida Atlantic 8-8 20
Others receiving votes: College of Charleston, TCU, Saint Mary’s, Arizona State, Florida Gulf Coast, Nebraska, North Florida, Houston Baptist, Cal State-Northridge