Maryland vs Minnesota Volleyball: Minnesota Wins 3-0

FinalSat, Oct 17, 2026B1G+

0:3

RallyIQ pre-match: Minnesota 93.2% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Oct 17, 5:55 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Minnesota beat visiting Maryland 3-0 (25-9, 25-18, 25-17) on Sat, Oct 17, 2026. Minnesota's Kelly Kinney led with 11 kills, and Zeynep Palabiyik added 10 digs.

Data through Nov 3, 10:10 PM CT · final Oct 17

Set	1	2	3	Sets
MD	9	18	17	0
MINN	25	25	25	3

Match story · written from the play-by-play

Kelly Kinney hit .500 with 11 kills as Minnesota rolled past Maryland.

No single rally moved win probability more than 0.7 points. Maryland peaked at 7% in Set 1. These are the stats that built the gap. RallyIQ gave Minnesota 93% before first serve.

MarylandMinnesota

Break %+30.9 pts
23.954.8
40 of 73 on serve vs 11 of 46, so Maryland's sideout was 45.2%.
Hitting+.392
.059.451
43 K / 6 E against 24 K / 18 E.
Longest run+6
39
From 2–2 in the first set, Minnesota scored 9 straight to lead 11–2. Final score of the set: 25–9.

Minnesota above 50Maryland belowMax swing 0.7%

MarylandMinnesota

Aces: Maryland 4·Minnesota 7
Serve err: Maryland 7·Minnesota 10
Blocks: Maryland 4·Minnesota 81 BS · 6 BA vs 0 BS · 16 BA
Digs: Maryland 27·Minnesota 47

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Minnesota above 50 · Maryland below

No single rally moved win probability by a full point: Minnesota stayed the heavy favorite throughout.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

MD 4.2%95.8% MINN

Maryland wins

3-0

0.5%

3-1

1.2%

3-2

2.6%

Minnesota wins

3-0

57.9%

3-1

28.9%

3-2

9.0%

MD break %: 35.1% vs this opp
MINN break %: 48.2% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Box score

Official NCAA box

Marylandaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
3Ava BrownOH	3	5	3	18	.111	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0.5	6.5
44Eva RohrbachMB	3	1	3	15	-.133	1	1	0	3	0	1	2	2	4
18Sara TothS	3	1	0	6	.167	17	2	1	4	0	0	1	0.5	3.5
23Duru GökçenMB	3	1	2	6	-.167	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0.5	1.5
4Haley MelbyOH	3	0	0	1	.000	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	0	0
24Brooklynne BrassOH	2	0	4	17	-.235	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
16Sydney BryantOH	3	11	4	27	.259	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.5	11.5
11Marlee SivakOH	3	5	2	11	.273	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	5
6Elayna DavidsonDS	3	0	0	0	–	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
2Raina ChwialkowskiDS	3	0	0	0	–	4	0	2	8	0	0	0	0	0
8Addie CanadyL/DS	2	0	0	0	–	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Team totals		24	18	101	.059	23	4	7	27	7	1	6	4	44

Minnesotahome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BA	BLK	PTS
17Elena HoeckeMB	3	10	0	14	.714	1	0	2	0	0	5	2.5	12.5
7Carly GilkOPP	3	9	2	17	.412	0	1	3	2	0	2	1	11
3Mckenna WuchererOH	3	8	1	20	.350	0	1	3	8	1	2	1	10
15Jordan TaylorMB	3	3	0	5	.600	0	0	0	2	0	3	1.5	4.5
5McKenna GarrL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	1	2	0	7	0	0	0	2
1Stella SwensonS	3	1	1	3	.000	34	0	0	8	0	1	0.5	1.5
33Kelly KinneyOH	3	11	1	20	.500	0	0	0	2	1	3	1.5	12.5
13Olivia SwensonOH	3	0	0	0	–	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
6Kate ThibaultL/DS	3	0	1	1	-1.000	1	0	1	7	0	0	0	0
12Zeynep PalabiyikL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	5	0	0	10	2	0	0	0
10Georgia LeeS	2	0	0	0	–	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
4Makenna CrossonOH	1	1	0	1	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
8Calissa MinateeMB	1	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11Madi KraftL/DS	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		43	6	82	.451	42	7	10	47	4	16	8	75

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 3 MD · MINN 9

Set 1

9-25

Longest run 2 MDMINN 9

Set 2

18-25

Longest run 3 MDMINN 4

Set 3

17-25

Longest run 2 MDMINN 3

Bars above the line = Minnesota leads, below = Maryland leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Maryland

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	47%7/15	33%3/9
2	58%7/12	0%0/7
3	28%5/18	30%3/10
4	71%5/7	17%1/6
5	50%5/10	29%2/7
6	36%4/11	29%2/7
All	45%33/73	24%11/46

Minnesota

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	88%7/8	55%6/11
2	88%7/8	46%6/13
3	70%7/10	46%6/13
4	71%5/7	72%13/18
5	83%5/6	29%2/7
6	57%4/7	64%7/11
All	76%35/46	55%40/73

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (3 of 3 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

119 rallies

#	MD-MINN	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	0-1	MD	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Stella Swenson
2	1-1	MINN	MD	Serve err	Minnesota
3	1-2	MD	MINN	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
4	2-2	MINN	MD	Serve err	Minnesota
5	2-3	MD	MINN×9	Attack err	Brooklynne Brass
6	2-4	MINN	MINN×9	Blocked	Brooklynne Brass	blk Stella Swenson, Elena Hoecke
7	2-5	MINN	MINN×9	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
8	2-6	MINN	MINN×9	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
9	2-7	MINN	MINN×9	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
10	2-8	MINN	MINN×9	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
11	2-9	MINN	MINN×9	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Elena Hoecke
12	2-10	MINN	MINN×9	Blocked	Eva Rohrbach	blk Elena Hoecke, Kelly Kinney
13	2-11	MINN	MINN×9	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
14	3-11	MINN	MD	Serve err	Mckenna Wucherer
15	3-12	MD	MINN	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
16	4-12	MINN	MD	Blocked	Kelly Kinney	blk Eva Rohrbach, Sara Toth
17	4-13	MD	MINN×4	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Kate Thibault
18	4-14	MINN	MINN×4	Attack err	Sydney Bryant
19	4-15	MINN	MINN×4	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Zeynep Palabiyik
20	4-16	MINN	MINN×4	Blocked	Brooklynne Brass	blk Jordan Taylor, Kelly Kinney
21	5-16	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
22	5-17	MD	MINN×4	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
23	5-18	MINN	MINN×4	Ace	Minnesota	aced Brooklynne Brass
24	5-19	MINN	MINN×4	Ace	Minnesota	aced Addie Canady
25	5-20	MINN	MINN×4	Kill	Jordan Taylor	set Stella Swenson
26	6-20	MINN	MD	Blocked	Mckenna Wucherer	blk Ava Brown, Duru Gökçen
27	6-21	MD	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set McKenna Garr
28	7-21	MINN	MD	Kill	Duru Gökçen	set Sara Toth
29	7-22	MD	MINN×3	Blocked	Ava Brown	blk Mckenna Wucherer, Elena Hoecke
30	7-23	MINN	MINN×3	Attack err	Marlee Sivak
31	7-24	MINN	MINN×3	Ace	Minnesota	aced Marlee Sivak
32	8-24	MINN	MD	Kill	Ava Brown	set Sara Toth
33	9-24	MD	MD	Ace	Ava Brown	aced Zeynep Palabiyik
34	9-25	MD	MINN	Kill	Makenna Crosson	set Zeynep Palabiyik
Set 2
1	1-0	MINN	MD	Kill	Ava Brown	set Sara Toth
2	1-1	MD	MINN	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
3	1-2	MINN	MINN	Ace	Minnesota	aced Duru Gökçen
4	2-2	MINN	MD	Serve err	Carly Gilk
5	2-3	MD	MINN	Serve err	Raina Chwialkowski
6	3-3	MINN	MD	Serve err	Mckenna Wucherer
7	3-4	MD	MINN×3	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
8	3-5	MINN	MINN×3	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
9	3-6	MINN	MINN×3	Blocked	Eva Rohrbach	blk Jordan Taylor, Kelly Kinney
10	4-6	MINN	MD	Serve err	Elena Hoecke
11	4-7	MD	MINN×3	Serve err	Brooklynne Brass
12	4-8	MINN	MINN×3	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
13	4-9	MINN	MINN×3	Attack err	Sydney Bryant
14	5-9	MINN	MD	Blocked	Carly Gilk	blk Sydney Bryant, Eva Rohrbach
15	6-9	MD	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Eva Rohrbach
16	6-10	MD	MINN×4	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
17	6-11	MINN	MINN×4	Attack err	Sydney Bryant
18	6-12	MINN	MINN×4	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
19	6-13	MINN	MINN×4	Attack err	Brooklynne Brass
20	7-13	MINN	MD×3	Kill	Sara Toth
21	8-13	MD	MD×3	Attack err	Carly Gilk
22	9-13	MD	MD×3	Ace	Sara Toth	aced Mckenna Wucherer
23	9-14	MD	MINN×4	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Stella Swenson
24	9-15	MINN	MINN×4	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Stella Swenson
25	9-16	MINN	MINN×4	Ace	Minnesota	aced Sydney Bryant
26	9-17	MINN	MINN×4	Ace	Minnesota	aced Brooklynne Brass
27	10-17	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
28	10-18	MD	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Zeynep Palabiyik
29	11-18	MINN	MD	Serve err	Kate Thibault
30	12-18	MD	MD	Kill	Marlee Sivak
31	12-19	MD	MINN×3	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
32	12-20	MINN	MINN×3	Kill	Stella Swenson	set Sara Toth
33	12-21	MINN	MINN×3	Attack err	Eva Rohrbach
34	13-21	MINN	MD	Serve err	Mckenna Wucherer
35	14-21	MD	MD	Blocked	Stella Swenson	blk Eva Rohrbach
36	14-22	MD	MINN	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
37	15-22	MINN	MD×3	Kill	Marlee Sivak	set Raina Chwialkowski
38	16-22	MD	MD×3	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Raina Chwialkowski
39	17-22	MD	MD×3	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
40	17-23	MD	MINN	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
41	18-23	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
42	18-24	MD	MINN	Kill	Kelly Kinney	set Stella Swenson
43	18-25	MINN	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Zeynep Palabiyik
Set 3
1	1-0	MD	MD	Ace	Sara Toth	aced Zeynep Palabiyik
2	1-1	MD	MINN×3	Serve err	Sara Toth
3	1-2	MINN	MINN×3	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
4	1-3	MINN	MINN×3	Blocked	Duru Gökçen	blk Carly Gilk, Elena Hoecke
5	2-3	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
6	2-4	MD	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Stella Swenson
7	2-5	MINN	MINN	Attack err	Ava Brown
8	3-5	MINN	MD	Kill	Marlee Sivak	set Sara Toth
9	3-6	MD	MINN	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
10	4-6	MINN	MD	Attack err	Kate Thibault
11	4-7	MD	MINN	Serve err	Ava Brown
12	5-7	MINN	MD	Serve err	Elena Hoecke
13	5-8	MD	MINN	Serve err	Addie Canady
14	6-8	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
15	7-8	MD	MD	Ace	Eva Rohrbach	aced Kelly Kinney
16	7-9	MD	MINN	Kill	Jordan Taylor	set Stella Swenson
17	8-9	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
18	8-10	MD	MINN×3	Kill	Jordan Taylor	set Stella Swenson
19	8-11	MINN	MINN×3	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
20	8-12	MINN	MINN×3	Attack err	Duru Gökçen
21	9-12	MINN	MD	Kill	Ava Brown	set Sara Toth
22	9-13	MD	MINN	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
23	10-13	MINN	MD	Kill	Marlee Sivak	set Raina Chwialkowski
24	11-13	MD	MD	Kill	Ava Brown	set Raina Chwialkowski
25	11-14	MD	MINN	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Zeynep Palabiyik
26	11-15	MINN	MINN	Ace	Minnesota	aced Haley Melby
27	12-15	MINN	MD	Kill	Marlee Sivak	set Sara Toth
28	12-16	MD	MINN	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
29	13-16	MINN	MD	Kill	Eva Rohrbach	set Sara Toth
30	13-17	MD	MINN	Kill	Mckenna Wucherer	set Stella Swenson
31	14-17	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
32	14-18	MD	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Stella Swenson
33	15-18	MINN	MD	Kill	Sydney Bryant	set Sara Toth
34	15-19	MD	MINN	Blocked	Sydney Bryant	blk Carly Gilk, Jordan Taylor
35	15-20	MINN	MINN	Kill	Carly Gilk	set Stella Swenson
36	16-20	MINN	MD	Kill	Ava Brown	set Sara Toth
37	16-21	MD	MINN	Serve err	Haley Melby
38	16-22	MINN	MINN	Blocked	Ava Brown	blk Mckenna Wucherer, Elena Hoecke
39	17-22	MINN	MD	Serve err	Carly Gilk
40	17-23	MD	MINN×3	Serve err	Raina Chwialkowski
41	17-24	MINN	MINN×3	Kill	Elena Hoecke	set Stella Swenson
42	17-25	MINN	MINN×3	Attack err	Marlee Sivak

Score shown after each rally, Maryland first.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

Minnesota def. Maryland 3–0

Kelly Kinney hit .500 with 11 kills as Minnesota rolled past Maryland.