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Texas Tech Visits Hilton On Saturday
11.01.2012 | Volleyball
AMES, Iowa – No. 21 Iowa State (14-7, 7-3 Big 12) will host Texas Tech (13-13, 2-8 Big 12) on Saturday, following Iowa State's football game against Oklahoma. Tickets to the volleyball match are $2 for fans who present their football ticket at the Hilton Coliseum ticket office.
The Cyclones are on a four-match winning streak, tying their longest streak of the season, after defeating South Dakota State in straight sets on Tuesday. The win was the sixth sweep for Iowa State this season.
For the second-straight match, freshman Andie Malloy came off the bench on Tuesday to make an impact for the Cyclones. Malloy recorded a career-best nine kills and hit .353, another career-high, in the win after putting up six kills against TCU last weekend. Tory Knuth entered the match in the second set as well, scoring four kills and a block assist. In 20 sets this season, the Knuth is hitting .264 and averaging 0.85 blocks per set.
On Saturday, the Cyclones look to get off to a faster start against the Red Raider than they did in Lubbock, Texas, where they dropped set one, 20-25. Iowa State took the next three sets to secure the victory, led by Rachel Hockaday's 20 kills. Emily Ehrle had 10 kills for Texas Tech in the contest.
The Red Raiders are coming off a sweep at Oklahoma and posted their only conference wins to-date against winless West Virginia. However, Texas Tech rallied from two sets down at No. 14 Kansas State on Oct. 20 to force a fifth set before falling. The match with the Wildcats is the only five-set league match of the year for the Red Raiders, who have been swept five times.
Saturday's match is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CST and Iowa State students receive free admission.
Cyclone Notebook
• Iowa State tied its season-long win streak with a win over South Dakota State on Tuesday night, making the Cyclones winners of their last four matches.
• Iowa State had 23 more kills than the Jackrabbits on Tuesday, marking the fourth time this season the Cyclones have posted at least 20 kills more than their opponent.
• The squad also hit .269 in the match, the 10th time Iowa State has hit above .250 this season, compared to five teams who have hit above .250 against the Cyclones.
• With five service aces against the Jackrabbits, two from setter Alison Landwehr, Iowa State has five matches on the year with five or more aces.
• In 11 non-conference matches, Iowa State out-aced opponents 1.20-0.89.
• Kristen Hahn and Straube led the team with aces in the non-conference slate with 13 and 11, respectively.
• SDSU ended Rachel Hockaday's six-match streak with double-digit digs. The senior had six digs in the non-conference finale.
• Tuesday's match aired on Midco Sports Net, making it the first TV win of the season.
• Entering the week, the Cyclones were 34th in the country with 13.13 assists per set this season. Landwehr ranked 23rd in the nation with 11.30 assists per set.
• Middle blocker Jamie Straube moved into 10th all-time at Iowa State in points against SDSU. The Tecumseh, Neb. native has 1,183.5 points in her career.
• Tenisha Matlock led the Iowa State offense against non-Big 12 teams this year, hitting .317 and picking up eight solo blocks.
• Against Big 12 teams, Iowa State is first in assists per set (13.73), kills per set (14.65) and digs per set (17.41).
• The Cyclones out-dig the second-place team by 1.20 digs per set.
• Straube (8th) and Hurtt (10th), rank among the top-10 in the league in hitting with averages of .300 and .288, respectively.
• Hurtt is fourth in the conference with 3.76 kills per set and is fifth with her 4.00 points per set for Iowa State this season.
• Kristen Hahn remains atop the Big 12 with 5.54 digs per set, the only player with more than 5.00 digs per set in league play this season.
• Hockaday comes in 10th in digs in the Big 12, averaging 3.03 digs per set against conference opponents.
• Hahn is on a 31-match streak of 10 or more digs, including 11 matches this season of 20 digs and two of 30. The junior is the only Big 12 player with 30 or more digs in two league matches.
• Setter Alison Landwehr had 59 assists against the Sooners, the most in a conference match this season.
• Iowa State had 65 total assists against Texas on Oct. 17, tying for the most in a Big 12 match in 2012.
Streaks and Trends
• Iowa State opponents have hit over .300 just 18 times in 244 matches under Johnson-Lynch.
• Iowa State is 7-2 in three-set matches in 2012. Under Johnson-Lynch, Iowa State is 96-32 in three set matches.
• Behind Johnson-Lynch's leadership, the Cyclones win 88% (133-19) of their matches when earning the first set victory.
• Iowa State has collected 20 wins in five-consecutive seasons under head coach Johnson-Lynch. The Cyclones have had 11 20+ win seasons since 1982.
• Under Johnson-Lynch, the Cyclones have won at least one match over a top 25 opponent in each of her eight seasons and have defeated at least two top 25 teams in each of the last six seasons.
Revisiting Texas Tech
• Iowa State is on a 12-match winning streak against the Red Raiders, including a 3-1 win at Texas Tech earlier this season.
• Coming into Ames, TTU is 13-13 overall and 2-8 in the Big 12, with two wins over West Virginia.
• The Red Raiders rallied from two sets-down at No. 14 Kansas State to force a fifth set falling, 9-15 in the deciding set.
• In Lubbock, the Cyclones hit .255 and benefited from 20 kills from senior outside Rachel Hockaday, who also had 11 digs in the match.
• Despite losing a set, Iowa State held large leads over the Red Raiders in digs (76-59) and kills (62-39) in the match.
• The fourth set was a struggle on offense for both teams. Iowa State won, hitting just .083, while Tech failed to post a hitting percentage.
• Iowa State had six aces and seven blocks in the contest, including solo blocks from Mackenzie Bigbee and Victoria Hurtt.
• Errors held the Cyclones back from an overwhelming win. Tech scored 24 points off Iowa State errors.
• Red Raider Emily Ehrle led TTU with 10 kills on .242 hitting in the match.
• Lydia McKay is the only position player on the court in all 36 of Texas Tech's conference sets this season. McKay is hitting .212 with 1.81 kills per set and averaging 0.72 blocks per set.
• Libero Rachel Brummitt has also played all 36 sets for TTU, averaging 4.22 digs per set, third in the conference.
• Texas Tech ranks eighth in the Big 12 this season in hitting, opponent hitting, assists, and kills.
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