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No. 8 Iowa State Faces Road Test At Kansas State
11.13.2009 | Volleyball
AMES, Iowa - In search of its seventh-straight road win, No. 8 Iowa State travels to Kansas State to face the Wildcats Saturday night. First serve from Ahearn Field House is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Who: No. 8 Iowa State (21-4, 13-3 Big 12) at Kansas State (10-15, 4-11)
When: Saturday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m.
Where: Ahearn Field House (5,000)
Live Stats: Available at cyclones.com.
Live Video: None
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Cyclone Notebook
? Iowa State travels to Manhattan, Kan., for a Saturday match against Kansas State. The Cyclones are looking to win their fourth in a row against the Wildcats.
? ISU is in search of its 22nd win of the season, which would tie for the most in a season by a Christy Johnson-Lynch coached team. Johnson-Lynch is also looking for her 100th career win, which would make her the quickest coach in school history to win 100 matches. Johnson-Lynch is coaching in her 157th match. It took Vicki Mealer, the only other coach with 100 career wins, 187 matches to reach the milestone.
? ISU is ranked No. 8 in this week's poll, its 12th-straight week in the top-25 and third-straight week in the top-10.
? ISU is off to the best start, overall (21-4) and in Big 12 play (13-3), in school history. The 13 Big 12 wins is a school record and ISU is just three wins shy of tying the school's NCAA record for wins in a season.
? The Cyclones have won 20 matches for the third time under Johnson-Lynch, who is in her fifth year as head coach. ISU has won 20 matches nine different times since 1982.
? On Wednesday, Iowa State won in College Station, Texas for just the second time in 14 tries, taking a 3-0 sweep of the Aggies.
? The Cyclones hit .253 and held the Aggies to a .157 hitting percentage, well below their season average.
? Victoria Henson led the Cyclones with 15 kills and Rachel Hockaday was in double-digits for the fifth-straight match with 12 kills. Ashley Mass had a match-high 20 digs.
? The Cyclones out blocked the Aggies, 11-6. Jamie Straube led the way with a career-high three solo blocks while also getting five block assists.
? Mass is second all-time at ISU with 1,645 career digs. The junior is just 259 shy of the school record. Steph McCannon (1992-95) holds the current mark with 1,904.
? Mass tied the school-record against the Aggies with her 29th career 20-dig match. The junior will pass McCannon with her next 20-dig performance.
? Debbie Stadick has been in double-figures five times this season after doing it just twice during her freshman campaign. Stadick hasn't been in double-digits since posting 10 kills against Baylor five matches ago.
? Kaylee Manns has moved into fourth on the Big 12's all-time list for assists. The senior has 5,368 assists and is 451 assists shy of third place (Michelle Moriarty, UT).
? Manns leads all active Big 12 players with 63 career double-doubles.
? ISU is hitting .235 this season after hitting for a school-record .234 in 2008.
Streaks and Trends
? Iowa State is 8-3 on the road this season and 34-32 away from home in five years under Christy Johnson-Lynch.
? The Cyclones are 18-0 this season when taking the first set and 3-4 when losing the opening frame. ISU's three wins when dropping the opening frame came against Nebraska, Baylor and Texas.
? ISU has out blocked eight of its last 12 opponents. The Cyclones have averaged 2.90 blocks per set during the stretch after averaging just 2.33 in the first 13 matches of the season.
? Eight of Iowa State's last 10 opponents have hit below .200.
? ISU opponents have only hit over .300 13 times in 156 matches under Johnson-Lynch. Topping .300 has happened just seven times since 2007.
? Hockaday has been in double figures in five-straight matches.
? Mass has posted double-digit digs in 84 of the 86 matches she has started at libero.
? Manns is making her 91st consecutive start at setter for the Cyclones.
? Mass is averaging 6.42 digs over the last five matches.
? Hockaday (3.79), Manns (3.16) and Henson (3.00) are also averaging over 3.00 digs per set over the last five contests.
? Hockaday has had success against Kansas State in the past, averaging 3.55 kills per set and hitting .255, well above her career marks of 2.93 kills and a .195 hitting percentage.
Quick Look At Kansas State
? Kansas State is 10-15 overall and 4-11 in Big 12 play after falling, 3-0, to Kansas Wednesday night. The Wildcats have won two in a row in Manhattan though, topping Texas A&M and Texas Tech prior to the loss to the Jayhawks.
? The Wildcats have struggled offensively this season, hitting just .195 and averaging only 12.87 kills per set.
? On defense, KSU averages 2.02 blocks and allows opponents to hit .227.
? The Wildcats do boast one of the Big 12's best middle blockers in senior Kelsey Chipman, who was a high school teammate of ISU setter Kaylee Manns at Washburn Rural High School in Topeka, Kan. Chipman leads the Big 12 hitting .369, while averaging 2.71 kills per set. Her 1.08 blocks ties her for sixth in the league.
? The Cyclones took the first meeting this season, 3-0, behind a team hitting percentage of .327. Six of the Cyclones seven attackers hit over .300 in the match. Hockaday and Henson led the way for ISU with 13 and 12 kills, respectively.
? Iowa State leads the all-time series against K-State, 39-34. The Cyclones have won the last three meetings. ISU is 5-4 against the Wildcats under Christy Johnson-Lynch.
? The last time there was a season split between the Wildcats and Cyclones was in 1988 when both teams won at home.
Defensively Speaking
? Defensively, the 2009 Cyclones have been limiting their opponents to the lowest hitting percentage since the beginning of the Division I era. ISU's opponents are hitting at just a .148 clip this season. Here is a look at the top-five defensive efforts by ISU:
1. .148 - 2009
2. .156 - 1983
3. .164 - 1995
4. .167 - 1992
5. .169 - 2006
This Weekend in the Big 12
Friday, Nov. 13
Texas A&M (14-9, 7-8 Big 12) at No. 9 Nebraska (18-6, 11-4), 7 p.m. - Live Stats
Saturday, Nov. 14
No. 21 Baylor (21-6, 10-6) at Kansas (14-11, 6-9), 11 a.m. - Live Stats
Oklahoma (17-8, 10-6) at Texas Tech (2-22, 0-15), 11:45 a.m. - Live Stats
Missouri (16-11, 7-8) at Colorado (7-18, 2-14), 8 p.m. - Live Stats
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