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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Elevators are made for awkward moments.Just ask Andrew Bogut, after he crossed paths with social media foe Liz Cambage in the Australian Olympic team complex in Rio.The basketball stars have been in the headlines after locking horns on Twitter.Cambage said last week she would confront Bogut and ask him what the issue was if they bumped into each other in the village.And thats exactly what happened.I was getting ice, she was coming from the laundry, and we ended up in the lobby together - just us, Bogut said.I was about to square up because I didnt know where it was going with Lizzy.I was hoping she wasnt going to swing at me, but the arm was coming around for a hug.She gave me a massive hug and we just laughed about it.Bogut insisted there were no hard feelings between the pair, who both begin their Olympic campaigns on Saturday.Im a firm believer that anyone should give their opinion instead of the PC crap. 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He said the defendants went "way over the line.The last of the NCAA volleyball unbeatens fell in a wild week. Heres a look around the sport two weeks into conference play.Ohio State rules in LincolnAs coveted as a win over Nebraska is for any team in volleyball, its old hat for Ohio State.The Buckeyes have defeated Nebraska the past three times the teams have met, including taking the final three sets to win in Lincoln on Saturday in front of 8,368 Big Red fans, many of whom had come after the afternoon football game between the Cornhuskers and Illinois.The loss snapped the Cornhuskers 28-match winning streak that dated to last seasons Oct. 24 four-set loss to Wisconsin. It leaves the sport without an unbeaten team going into the second half of the season.Twelve serving errors cost the Huskers, but credit the Buckeyes, who routed Nebraska in the final set 25-13. Ohio State took the point on all 13 of the Husker serves in the fourth set and outscored the defending national champions by a combined 20 points in the final three sets.Coach Geoff Carlston, whose seniors have never lost at Nebraska, wont divulge any secrets.Our kids walk in there with a confidence, he said. Its a great environment to play in with a lot of aficionados who have a really high volleyball IQ.Since joining the Big Ten in 2011, Nebraska owns a winning record against every opponent except Ohio State. Ohio State has won four of its past five over Nebraska and is 4-3 in Lincoln.Ohio States Luisa Schirmer attacked .480 on 14 kills in the final three sets and added 12 digs, while teammate Taylor Sandbothe had 12 kills and nine blocks, hitting at a clip of .346. Setter Taylor Hughes 11 kills was a career best.Ohio States win was even more notable given that starter Audra Appold, tied for second on the Buckeyes with 172 kills, was sidelined with illness.The win marked the Buckeyes first on the road over a No. 1 ranked team. And lest anyone forget, the final four is in the Buckeyes gym.Ohio State (12-4) moved from 19 to 14 in this weeks American Volleyball Coaches Association poll. Nebraska fell to No. 3.Welcome to the top, MinnesotaMinnesota takes over the top spot in the poll, the first time the Golden Gophers have reached the No. 1 ranking since Sept. 27, 2004.Minnesota (12-1, 4-0 Big Ten) has won 11 straight, defeating Indiana and Purdue last weekend on the road. The Golden Gophers dropped the second match of the season at Stanford 3-1 and have not played a five-set match in 2016.Against the Boilermakers, Sarah Wilhite had 19 kills, hitting .621, and Hannah Tapp had 10 kills at a .444 clip. It was a difficult weekend in West Lafayette for the home team -- on Friday, Purdue dropped a five-setter to Wisconsin. Purdue (11-4, 1-3) moved from 14 to 17 in the poll.Minnesota is No. 2 in the first RPI released by the NCAA on Monday; Wisconsin is No. 1.Kudos to volleyball in the North Star State: Minnesota Duluth took over the top spot in this weeks Division II poll behind a 15-0 mark. The previous No. 1, Concordia St. Paul (also of Minnesota), fell to No. 2.Kentucky pulls another win in GainesvilleJust like last year, the Kentucky Wildcats defeated Florida on the Gators home floor, but this one wasnt just a victory -- it was a sweep of the fifth-ranked Gators, who dropped to 11th.Missouri was the last SEC team to sweep Florida in Gainesville, on Noov.dddddddddddd. 13, 2013. Kentucky had not swept Florida since the 1990 season.Florida (13-2, 3-1) had its string of 12 straight wins snapped after hitting .128. Kentucky had 11 blocks, including seven from junior Kaz Brown.Freshman Leah Edmond posted a match-high 19 kills; Brown and junior Darian Mack each had nine.Kentucky and Missouri are tied for first in the SEC with 4-0 records. Kentucky (11-4) checks into the poll tied for 25th with Western Kentucky.Washington State tops Pac-12 headlinersWashington State knocked off its third straight top-10 opponent, upsetting then-No. 9 Stanford on Friday in five sets. The Cougars improved to No. 10 in this weeks poll.Fittingly, the game was played before 2,522 in Pullman, Washington, the highest fan turnout there in 14 years. The crowd got to see the home team record its first win over the Cardinal since 2002.The Cougars topped Washington and UCLA the week before on the road. Washington State improved to 14-2, 4-0 in the Pac-12, after sweeping Cal on Sunday.Kyra Holt, last weeks espnW player of the week, had 17 kills and five blocks against Stanford and became the programs all-time scoring leader, finishing the weekend with a career total of 1,739 points.Also notable: It was the second straight five-set win for a team that had lost its previous 11 matches that went the distance prior to the win over UCLA.Washington States 4-0 start in the Pac-12 is its best in 19 years.Elsewhere in the Pac-12, No. 19 Colorado bounced UCLA behind 27 digs from senior libero Cierra Simpson. Make that four straight triple-doubles for Gabby Simpson behind 12 kills, 30 assists and 13 digs. The junior from Colorado Springs has five triple-doubles in her career; the school record is 10.No. 20 Oregon (11-2, 4-0) has put together a string of 11 straight, hitting .313 as a team and holding opponents to .171.Credit freshmen Ronika Stone and Jolie Rasmussen with Oregons potency on offense. Stone led the Ducks with 13 kills on a blistering .632 hitting to go with five blocks in Saturdays victory over Arizona. Rasmussen added nine kills, hitting .320.Stone, the Pac-12 freshman of the week, is the highest-rated recruit in Oregon history. Her .442 hitting percentage is second in the conference.Texas and Florida are the lone teams to beat the Ducks this season. On tap this weekend: Washington and Washington State, both home matches for the Ducks.Streaking San DiegoQuietly, San Diego (13-2, 4-0 West Coast) keeps rising in the rankings behind a 12-game winning streak, including a sweep over BYU on Friday. The Toreros, unranked in the preseason poll, inched from No. 6 to No. 5 this week.San Diegos slate includes wins over Stanford, Colorado, UCLA, Santa Clara and a five-setter against Loyola Marymount from 0-2 down a week ago. The Toreros only two losses were to Minnesota and Wisconsin.San Diego came into the season with a highly touted recruiting class. Among the newbies: 6-2 Canadian Thana Fayad and Spaniard Anna Newsome.Coach Brent Hilliard says Fayad has a chance to be the best outside hitter in program history and regards Newsome, of Sabadell, Barcelona, as 99 percent more developed than the setters coming into college. ' ' '