11/18/04

Volleyball Preview: Iowa State

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Match #26
No. 11 Texas (22-3, 14-3 Big 12) at
Iowa State (8-19, 1-17 Big 12)

When: Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ames, Iowa (Hilton Coliseum)
All-Time Series Record: Texas leads, 16-1 (9-0 home, 7-1 away)
Series Streaks: Texas has won all but one meeting - the second meeting of 2003 in Ames (ISU won, 3-1)
Last Meeting: Sept. 22, 2004 in Austin: Texas won, 3-0 (30-17, 30-11, 30-22)
Last UT victory: See last meeting
Last ISU victory: Nov. 2, 2003 in Ames: ISU won, 3-1 (26-30, 30-27, 32-30, 31-29)
Elliott vs. Iowa State: 6-1

QUICK SETS
Texas is third in the nation in hitting percentage (NCAA Stats release, 11/16/04), with a .314 mark through last week, and is ranked ninth in kills per game (17.33) and eighth in assists per game (15.90) with a freshman - Michelle Moriarty - leading the offense at setter ... Moriarty is now ranked 22nd nationally in assists/game (13.21).
Texas is ranked eighth nationally in attendance and is second in the Big 12 in attendance behind Nebraska ... as of the listing's release on Nov. 22, the Horns averaged 1,900 fans per game and recently saw the fifth-largest crowd ever at Gregory Gym - 3,608 - when the team defeated Texas A&M, 3-2, on Nov. 11.
Texas fell out of the top 10 this week, slipping to No. 11 after a 1-1 week that saw the team top No. 13 Texas A&M, 3-2, at home on Thursday, and fall at Missouri (3-1) on Sunday ... UT was ranked No. 10 in last week's Volleyball Magazine poll.
Mira Topic became Texas' career kills leader on Wednesday night, eclipsing Dee Sance's 2,013 kills, with a 23-kill effort against Kansas ... she is just the third player in the history of the Big 12 Conference and its member schools to record 2,000 career kills (Baylor's Elisha Polk, 1996-99, 2,272 kills; and Sance, 1995-98, 2,103 kills) .
Mira Topic earned her fourth Big 12 Player of the Week honor of the year last Monday after her pair of 30-kill, double-double performances last week ... she became the first player in league history to earn the volleyball weekly honor four times in one season ... she also holds the record for most volleyball Big 12 Player of the Week nods in a career with seven
Mira Topic is ranked fourth nationally - and leads the Big 12 in both overall and conference only - in kills/game ... she has collect 500 or more kills for the third time in her career, as she had 534 as a freshman and 523 as a sophomore ... she currently has 503 kills as a senior.
Bethany Howden has racked up 339 kills this season and has surpassed the 1,400-, 1,500-, 1,600- and 1,700-kill marks this season ... she is hitting a team-best .386, is ranked 28th nationall in the category (as of Nov. 16) and is second in the Big 12 in both overall matches and conference only matches.
Dariam Acevedo earned Big 12 All-Academic First Team honors, marking the first time in her career she has been honored academically by the conference ... she is an education major and carries a 3.70 grade point average.
UT has limited it opponents to a hitting percentage under .250 in 22 of its 25 matches, including seven matches where the team has held its opponents below .100 ... the only teams that have hit better than .250 against UT is Texas A&M, which hit .257 and .303 in two matches this season against the Horns, and Missouri (.315) in Columbia ... offensively, Texas has hit for an attack percentage of .350 or higher in 12 of 25 matches this season, including five matches of .400 or higher.
UT has won 17 of its 22 victories matches by 3-0 scores, and has won 70 games to its opponents' 16 in 2004 ... Texas has limited opponents to 19 or fewer points in 32 games this season ... UT managed the feat in only eight games in 2003.

ABOUT THE OPPONENT
Iowa State is 8-19 overall and 1-17 in Big 12 matches ... the Cyclones' lone win of the conference season came againt Oklahoma on Sept. 17 ... ISU has lost it's last 11 matches and 17 of its last 18 ... as a team Iowa State is hitting .148, and limiting its opponents to a .196 mark ... Katie Jessen has a team-best 2.89 kills/game, while Katie Churm leads the team with a 4.06 digs/game mark ... Katie Kruenegel has 66 blocks to lead the team, as the Cyclones have been out-blocked, 284.0 to 211.0.

IOWA STATE QUICK FACTS Location: Ames, Iowa Nickname: Cyclones Colors: Cardinal and Gold Head Coach: Linda Crum (Iowa '87) 2003 Record: 12-19 2003 Big 12 Record (Finish): 4-16 (Tied for eighth) NCAA Postseason: None