AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State volleyball team returns to Hilton Coliseum Saturday to take on the TCU Horned Frogs in a 4 p.m. showdown. Saturday will be Military Appreciation Day, those with Military IDs will be admitted to the match for free, and Iowa State will debut new "digital camo" cardinal and gold jerseys.
Tickets for the match can be purchased in advance on cyclones.com (click here), or at the Hilton Coliseum ticket office, located on the lower Southwest corner of Hilton, the day of the match.
Saturday's match will be shown live on Cyclones.TV Powered by Mediacom and the Cyclones.TV web player. For more info about Cyclones.TV, click here.
Live stats for the match will be provided by cyclones.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 pick up its fourth consecutive victory Saturday when the Cyclones host TCU at 4 p.m. inside Hilton Coliseum. The match will serve as Military Appreciation Day, with the Cyclones debuting new “digital camo” cardinal and gold jerseys.
- The Cyclones picked up their second win over a rankned opponent in eight days on Wednesday as ISU knocked off No. 24 Oklahoma in five sets in Norman.
- Alexis Conaway had one of the top offensive performances of the season by a Cyclone, finishing with a career-high 15 kills at a career-high .560 hitting percentage. Conaway was also dominant on defense with eight block assists.
- Conaway, a true freshman middle blocker, has been one of ISU's top offensive threats. She has recorded at least 10 kills in eight matches this season, and at least five total blocks in 10 matches this campaign. Conaway is hitting .321 on the season and averaing 1.12 blocks per set, both of which rank sixth in the Big 12.
- Morgan Kuhrt led the Cyclones with 16 kills and 10 digs at Oklahoma, her second career double-double. Her other double-double came in the home match against the Sooners back in October.
- Caitlin Nolan led the Iowa State defense with 34 digs against the Sooners, her fourth match in 2014 with at least 30 digs. Nolan leads the Big 12 and ranks third nationally with 5.64 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.
- Five of ISU's nine losses have come to top-20 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. The Cyclones have four wins over RPI top-25 teams, having defeated K-State (16th), Kansas (20th) and earning a season sweep of Oklahoma (24th).