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ISU Set To Face No. 1 Huskers In Televised Match
10.09.2007 | Volleyball
AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State volleyball team travels to Nebraska for a Wednesday tilt against the top-ranked Huskers at 7 p.m. at the NU Coliseum. The match will be televised nationally on CSTV as the stations' American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Match of the Week. CSTV is available on Mediacom Digital Cable (Ch. 171), Dish Network (Ch. 152) and DirectTV (Ch. 610).
Who: Iowa State (11-6, 5-2 Big 12) at No. 1 Nebraska (14-0, 7-0 Big 12)
Where: NU Coliseum (Lincoln, Neb.)
When: Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Live Stats: Live stats will be available at Cyclones.com by clicking here.
Television: CSTV with play-by-play provided by Jason Knapp and color by Anne Marie Anderson. The match will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. with a replay at 10 p.m. CSTV will also replay the match at 11 a.m. on Oct. 11 and 2 a.m. on Oct. 12.
- The Cyclones dropped a 3-2 (30-19, 24-30, 31-29, 26-30, 12-15) heartbreaker to Oklahoma on Saturday evening in Norman despite dominating nearly every statistical category.
- Iowa State is 10-2 in its last 12 matches following a 1-4 start to the season. The only losses in the stretch came at the hands of No. 7 Texas and Oklahoma.
- The Cyclones out dug Oklahoma 101-69 on Saturday. It marked the second time in four matches that ISU has posted 100 or more digs. The Cyclones are 10-2 when having more digs than their opponents.
- Kaylee Manns has 26 kills with no errors on 47 attempts in the last six matches for a .553 hitting percentage.
- As a team, ISU is averaging 19.19 digs in Big 12 matches, which ranks first in the league. Nebraska is second with 15.86 digs.
- Ashley Mass (4.60), Laura Cady (2.93), Amy Vos (2.98) and Kaylee Manns (3.19) are all averaging over 2.90 digs per game during the last 12 matches.
- Iowa State is 8-1 when winning the important first game this season, with the only loss coming last Saturday at Oklahoma. Comparatively, the Cyclones are just 3-5 when dropping the first frame.
- Mass is averaging 5.00 digs per game since moving into the starting libero role 10 matches ago. The freshman from Muskego, Wis., leads the Big 12 with 5.08 per game in conference matches.
- Jen Malcom hit .636 (14k-0e-22a) against Kansas last Wednesday. It marks the second best hitting percentage in the conference this season in league matches.
- Freshman libero Ashley Mass became the first Cyclone in school history to earn Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 17) honors after averaging 5.50 digs per game in wins over Baylor and Texas A&M. The Muskego, Wis., native had 17 digs and three service aces against the Bears and ended the week with 16 digs in a ISU's first-ever sweep of the Aggies.
Who: Iowa State (11-6, 5-2 Big 12) at No. 1 Nebraska (14-0, 7-0 Big 12)
Where: NU Coliseum (Lincoln, Neb.)
When: Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Live Stats: Live stats will be available at Cyclones.com by clicking here.
Television: CSTV with play-by-play provided by Jason Knapp and color by Anne Marie Anderson. The match will be broadcast live at 7 p.m. with a replay at 10 p.m. CSTV will also replay the match at 11 a.m. on Oct. 11 and 2 a.m. on Oct. 12.
Cyclone Notebook
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- The Cyclones dropped a 3-2 (30-19, 24-30, 31-29, 26-30, 12-15) heartbreaker to Oklahoma on Saturday evening in Norman despite dominating nearly every statistical category.
- Iowa State is 10-2 in its last 12 matches following a 1-4 start to the season. The only losses in the stretch came at the hands of No. 7 Texas and Oklahoma.
- The Cyclones out dug Oklahoma 101-69 on Saturday. It marked the second time in four matches that ISU has posted 100 or more digs. The Cyclones are 10-2 when having more digs than their opponents.
- Kaylee Manns has 26 kills with no errors on 47 attempts in the last six matches for a .553 hitting percentage.
- As a team, ISU is averaging 19.19 digs in Big 12 matches, which ranks first in the league. Nebraska is second with 15.86 digs.
- Ashley Mass (4.60), Laura Cady (2.93), Amy Vos (2.98) and Kaylee Manns (3.19) are all averaging over 2.90 digs per game during the last 12 matches.
- Iowa State is 8-1 when winning the important first game this season, with the only loss coming last Saturday at Oklahoma. Comparatively, the Cyclones are just 3-5 when dropping the first frame.
- Mass is averaging 5.00 digs per game since moving into the starting libero role 10 matches ago. The freshman from Muskego, Wis., leads the Big 12 with 5.08 per game in conference matches.
- Jen Malcom hit .636 (14k-0e-22a) against Kansas last Wednesday. It marks the second best hitting percentage in the conference this season in league matches.
A Closer Look At Nebraska (14-0, 7-0 Big 12)
- Nebraska, the nation's top-ranked team, enters Wednesday's match having won 28 straight matches dating back to last season's national championship run.
- The Huskers disposed of Colorado, 3-0 (30-25, 30-18, 30-20), on Saturday in Boulder, Colo.
- Against the Buffaloes, Christina Houghtelling had 19 kills and 10 digs with Jordan Larson also chipping in a double-double with 13 kills and 14 digs.
- Individually, Sarah Pavan, last year's national player of the year, paces the Huskers with 4.67 kills per game while hitting at a .337 clip. Jordan Larson averages 3.77 kills and 3.40 digs while Christina Houghtelling, the 2005 national player of the year, averages 3.38 kills and a team-high 3.90 digs.
- The Huskers had a league-high five players voted onto the preseason all-Big 12 team.
- In Big 12 matches only, Nebraska leads the league in hitting percentage, opponent hitting percentage, assists and kills. The Cyclones lead the league in digs and rank in the top-3 in opponent hitting percentage, assists, kills and blocks.
- Nebraska leads the all-time series 70-0.
Last Time They Met (11/8/06)
Lauren Cummings led the Cyclones with 16 kills and Erin Boeve chipped in 12 in the loss. The Cyclones out dug the Huskers, 86-85, with Laura Cady tying for the team-high with 22 digs.
- Nebraska took a 3-1 (30-20, 22-30, 30-27, 30-25) win at Hilton Coliseum to snap Iowa State's school-record five-match Big 12 winning streak. It was the first time that the Cyclones had won a game off of the Huskers since 1994, when ISU head coach Christy Johnson was a junior setter for Nebraska.
Triple-Double
- Erin Boeve recorded just the third triple-double in school history at Oklahoma when she had 25 kills, 15 digs and 11 total blocks, including a career-high four solo blocks and seven block assists. Here is a look at each of the triple-doubles ever posted at ISU:
| Date | Player | Opponent | Stats |
| 10-6-07 | Erin Boeve | Oklahoma | 25 kills, 15 digs, 11 blocks (4 BS, 7 BA) |
| 8-29-03 | Renae Pruess | Creighton | 15 kills, 10 assists, 11 digs |
| 9-4-93 | Jil Robins | Wyoming | 10 kills, 56 assists, 10 digs |
Good Move
- Boeve has been outstanding since being moved from outside hitter back to middle blocker, the position in which she earned honorable mention All-America honors last season, four matches ago. Here is a look at her stats before and after:
| Matches Played | ISU Record | KPG | Pct. | DPG | BPG | |
| At OH | 13 | 8-5 | 3.76 | .141 | 2.29 | 0.84 |
| At MB | 4 | 3-1 | 4.47 | .393 | 2.35 | 1.76 |
Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week
- Freshman libero Ashley Mass became the first Cyclone in school history to earn Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 17) honors after averaging 5.50 digs per game in wins over Baylor and Texas A&M. The Muskego, Wis., native had 17 digs and three service aces against the Bears and ended the week with 16 digs in a ISU's first-ever sweep of the Aggies.
Can You Dig It?
- The Cyclones have shattered a pair of school-record for digs in a single match since the inception of the rally scoring era this season. With 83 against Northern Iowa, ISU broke the previous 3-game record of 76 which was set against Creighton in 2005. The Cyclones then broke the 5-game record with 102 against Missouri, topping the old record which was 95 in the regular season finale against Colorado last season.
Other Big 12 Matches on Wednesday
Baylor (9-8, 2-5) at No. 7 Texas (10-3, 6-1), 6:30 p.m. - Live Stats
Texas A&M (13-5, 3-5) at Missouri (10-6, 3-4), 6:30 p.m. - Live Stats
Colorado (5-10, 0-7) at Kansas (9-8, 2-5), 7 p.m. - Live Stats
No. 25 Oklahoma (14-3, 6-1) at Texas Tech (7-10, 1-7), 7 p.m. - Live Stats
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