Volleyball Preview: Texas Tech
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Match #14
No. 11 Texas (13-0, 5-0 Big 12) at
Texas Tech (6-6, 2-4 Big 12)
When: Wednesday, October 6, 2004 at 7 p.m.
Where: Lubbock, Texas (United Spirit Arena; capacity 15,050)
All-Time Series Record: UT leads,
56-9-2 (25-3 at home, 24-2 in Lubbock and 7-4-2 neutral)
Series Streaks: UT has won the last six meetings
Last Meeting: November 26, 2003 in
Lubbock: UT won, 3-0 (30-18, 30-19, 30-28)
Last UT victory: Same
Last Texas Tech victory: November
1, 2000 in Lubbock: Tech won, 3-0 (15-5, 15-7, 15-8)
Elliott vs. Texas Tech: 6-0
QUICK
SETS
Texas
continued it climb in the national rankings, moving to No. 11 in
the USA Today/CSTV Top 25 Coaches Poll this week. Texas is also ranked
No. 15 in last week's Volleyball Magazine poll.
Texas is one
of four remaining undefeated teams in the nation, joining Washington,
Ohio State, and Hawaii.
The Longhorns are 13-0 to open a season for the
first time since 1990 when the Horns opened 26-0.
Texas leads the nation
in hitting percentage (NCAA Stats release, 9/28/04), with a .347 mark
through last week.
Texas has won its last three matches against ranked
teams dating back to last season ... UT topped No. 5 Kansas State (3-1)
on Nov. 29, 2003, No. 21 Kansas (3-0) on Sept. 25, 2004 and No. 5 Florida
on Sept. 29, 2004.
Mira Topic leads the Big 12 in both overall and conference
only kills/game. Nationally, she is ranked 13th in kills/game in the
latest stats release (9/28).
UT has limited it opponents to a hitting
percentage under .250 in each of its 13 matches, including five matches
where the team has held its opponents below .100.
UT won 11 of its 13
matches by 3-0 scores, and has won 39 games to its opponents' three in
2004.
Texas has limited opponents to 19 or fewer points in 22 games this
season ... UT managed the feat in only eight games in 2003.
Texas has
hit for an attack percentage of .350 or higher in nine of 13 matches
this season, including four matches of .420 or higher.
Dariam Acevedo
is hitting .551 in the last four matches with 30 kills on 49 attacks
with three errors ... she added a personal Texas-best 14 kills in the
team's victory over No. 5 Florida.
The team's freshmen defensive players
- libero Alyson Jennings and DS Sarah Holloway - each collected 23 digs
last week and both had a 3.29 digs/game average for the week.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
Texas Tech is 6-6 on the season
and 2-4 in Big 12 play and has lost its last two matches ... Tech has
defeated both Iowa State and Oklahoma in conference play and has fallen
to Texas A&M, Colorado, Kansas
and Nebraska ... Nina Miller leads TTU with a .215 attack percentage
as the team is hitting .136 overall (.111 in conference matches) ...
Kelly Johnson leads the team with 3.73 kills/game, whlie Desiree Batista
has a team-high 3.05 digs/game ... Miller is also averaging 1.22 blocks/game.
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TEXAS
TECH QUICK FACTS Location: Lubbock, Texas Nickname: Red Raiders Colors: Red and Black Head Coach: Nancy Todd (Arizona State '95) 2003 Record: 11-18 2003 Big 12 Record (Finish): 3-17 (Tied for 10th) NCAA Postseason: None |
