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Iowa State Hosts No. 5 Texas Sunday in ESPNU Match
10.31.2014 | Volleyball
AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State volleyball team returns to Hilton Coliseum Sunday for a match against No. 5 Texas at 2 p.m. The match will be televised nationally on ESPNU.
Tickets can be purchased now on cyclones.com, click here. Fans with tickets to Saturday's football game against Oklahoma can redeem their ticket stub Sunday at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office for $2 tickets into the Texas match. The Hilton Coliseum ticket office is located on the lower southwest portion of the building.
Along with being shown on ESPNU, the match will be streamed on the WatchESPN app. For more info, click here.
Live stats will be provided by cyclones.com, here. Iowa State Athletics Communications Assistant Director Patrick Tarbox will be hosting a live blog during the match here.
Cyclone Headlines
Tickets can be purchased now on cyclones.com, click here. Fans with tickets to Saturday's football game against Oklahoma can redeem their ticket stub Sunday at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office for $2 tickets into the Texas match. The Hilton Coliseum ticket office is located on the lower southwest portion of the building.
Along with being shown on ESPNU, the match will be streamed on the WatchESPN app. For more info, click here.
Live stats will be provided by cyclones.com, here. Iowa State Athletics Communications Assistant Director Patrick Tarbox will be hosting a live blog during the match here.
Cyclone Headlines
- The Iowa State volleyball team starts the second half of the Big 12 schedule Sunday with a match against No. 5 Texas at Hilton Coliseum, starting at 2 p.m.
- The Cyclones are coming off a five-set loss at Baylor last Saturday. The Cyclones took the first two sets off the Bears, 25-20 and 25-19, before the Bears came back to win the final three sets, claiming the fifth frame 15-10.
- Caitlin Nolan led the Iowa State effort with 35 digs. Following up on her Big 12-record 43 digs against Kansas last Wednesday, the week of efforts helped Nolan win her third Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week award of the season.
- Nolan has continued ISU's tradition of great liberos, ranking atop the Big 12 and fourth in the NCAA with 5.72 digs per set. Nolan has recorded at least 20 digs in each of ISU's previous seven matches.
- Ciara Capezio led the Iowa State offense with 16 kills. Capezio has posted at least 16 kills in each of ISU's last three matches, having 21 at Texas Tech and 16 against Kansas prior to her 16 in Waco on Saturday. Capezio leads the Cyclones with 3.26 kills per set, fifth in the Big 12, while also recording 2.04 digs per set.
- After a slow start to her 2014 season Mackenzie Bigbee, a 2013 AVCA Honorable Mention All-American has been one of ISU's top players in recent weeks, recording at least 10 kills in each of Iowa State's past five matches.
- Alexis Conaway, a true freshman middle blocker, has been one of ISU's top offensive threats in recent weeks. She has recorded at least 10 kills in seven of her last 13 matches, and at least five total blocks in nine matches this campaign.
- Three of ISU's eight losses have come to the top-three teams in NCAA RPI in No. 1 Stanford, No. 2 Florida State and No. 4 Texas. This week, Iowa State checked into the NCAA RPI at No. 28.
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