Before the week even began, Blaire Bayless said the Pitt volleyball team was anxious to get revenge on SMU. The Mustangs were the only team to beat the Panthers in the regular season last year. The Panthers didn’t want to get beat by them again.

Everything was going according to plan heading into the second match of the home-and-home ACC series. Pitt defeated SMU in five sets on the road on Wednesday. It just needed to get the win at the Petersen Events Center on Sunday — and they did. This time with a 3-1 (25-20, 25-22, 26-28, 25-21) result to sweep the series with No. 11 SMU.

“I just want to congratulate SMU on a good fight,” Pitt coach Dan Fisher said. “The Mustangs, clearly never gave up, and they had a very aggressive serving plan and stuck with it. We've been going, I don't know ho

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