University of Minnesota Athletics
GOPHER VOLLEYBALL FINISHES 16TH IN NATIONAL POLL
1/4/2000 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
Minnesota finished the 1999 season at 27-9 overall and 15-5 in the Big Ten Conference, good for second place. The Gophers set a school record for Big Ten wins and came within two overall wins of the school's 29-win total in 1989. Minnesota qualified for its fifth NCAA Tournament, and advanced to the "Sweet 16" for the third time in school history, before losing to Penn State, the 1999 NCAA champion. The Nittany Lions were a unanimous choice as the top team in the poll. Wisconsin was the other Big Ten team in the poll, ranked 23rd.
USA TODAY/AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 Final 1999 Poll School Points '99 Record Last Ranking 1. Penn State (60) 1500 36-1 1 2. Stanford 1429 31-3 2 3. Pacific 1391 32-3 5 4. Long Beach State 1319 31-4 6 5. Florida 1208 33-3 4 6. UC Santa Barbara 1134 29-6 7 7. UCLA 1127 28-4 8 8. Hawai'i 1114 29-2 3 9. Texas A&M 1049 28-6 13 10.Pepperdine 910 26-4 9 11.Nebraska 892 27-6 10 12.Colorado State 842 30-3 11 13.BYU 840 28-5 12 14.Arizona 659 21-11 18 15.Northern Iowa 614 30-1 17 16.Minnesota 606 27-9 22 17.USC 531 21-9 14 18.Texas 445 22-8 15 19.Kansas State 377 21-9 19 20.Baylor 271 26-9 20 21.North Carolina 214 28-6 23 22.Clemson 201 31-3 16 23.Wisconsin 191 22-10 NR 24.San Diego 144 23-6 25 25.Arkansas 120 30-7 24 Others receiving 30 or more points: Illinois (110), Indiana (42), Michigan State (36), Utah (31)
