AMES, Iowa - The Iowa state volleyball team will be in search of its third-straight win and another victory over a ranked opponent Wednesday in Norman when the Cyclones take on No. 24 Oklahoma at 7 p.m. inside McCasland Field House. ISU (13-9, 5-6 Big 12), will also be looking for the season sweep of the Sooners (17-7, 8-3 Big 12).
The match will be teleived on FOX Sports Southwest Plus. There will be no online broadcast of the match.
Live stats for the match will be provided by soonersports.com, click
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 will look to make it three in a row on Wednesday when it goes for a season sweep against Oklahoma Wednesday at 7 p.m. inside McCasland Field House.
- The Cyclones won consecutive Big 12 matches for the first time in 2014 and earned their first Big 12 road win of the season with a sweep of West Virginia Saturday. The Cyclones continued to run its 6-2 system, as ISU hit .255 for the match.
- Victoria Hurtt led the ISU offense with 11 kills at a season-best .429 hitting percentage. In ISU's two sweeps last week, Hurtt recorded 3.83 kills per set at a .302 hitting percentage. Cailtin Nolan led the Cyclone defense with 11 digs, her 11th-straight match with at least 10 digs.
- Nolan leads the Big 12 and ranks third nationally with 5.57 digs per set. The junior libero has been a three-time Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week in 2014. Against Kansas, Nolan set the ISU record and tied a Big 12 record with 43 digs in the five-set win.
- The Iowa State offense has been led by Ciara Capezio in 2014. Capezio leads the Cyclones and rank seventh nationally with 3.13 kills per set. She has continued to be an important contributor on defense with her 2.00 digs per set.
- 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 matches this season, and at least five total blocks in nine matches this campaign. Conaway has seen her hitting percentage go back above .300 after recording eight kills at a .500 hitting percentage at West Virginia. She is hitting .305 on the season.
- Five of ISU's nine losses have come to the top-three teams in NCAA RPI in No. 1 Stanford, No. 2 Florida State and No. 4 Texas (twice) and No. 16 Kansas State. This week, Iowa State checked into the NCAA RPI at No. 18. Wednesday night's opponent, Oklahoma, is at No. 24 in the RPI. ISU has wins of three RPI top-25 squads in K-State (16th), Kansas (20th) and Oklahoma (24th).