AMES, Iowa - Iowa State's volleyball team starts the final week of the home regular season with a home match against Texas Tech, Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. inside Hilton Coliseum.
Tickets can be purchased now on cyclones.com (click here), or on the evening of the match at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office, located at the lower Southwest corner of Hilton.
Wednesday's match will be televied live on Cyclones.TV Powered by Mediacom and on the Cyclones.TV web player. For more information about Cyclones.TV, click here.
Live stats 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 close out the season at home, starting with a match Wednesday evening against Texas Tech, starting at 6:30 p.m. inside Hilton Coliseum.
- The Cyclones saw their four-match winning streak end last Wednesday at Kansas when ISU fell to the Jayhawks in four sets. Ciara Capezio led the ISU attack with 16 kills at a .444 hitting percentage while Cailtin Nolan led all players with 25 digs, her 14th 20+ dig match of the season.
- Nolan leads the Big 12 and ranks fifth nationally at 5.65 digs per set. The junior from Southlake, Texas earned her fourth Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for her efforts against TCU and her 34 digs at Oklahoma. At Kansas, Nolan became the 14th player in Iowa State history to record 1,000 career digs, currently sitting at 1,022 digs.
- Outside hitter Victoria Hurtt sits just five kills away from recording 1,000 career kills. She would become the ninth player in program history with at least 1,000 kills in a career. Hurtt ranks second on the Cyclones with 2.62 kills per set, while also having her beck blocking season of her career with 0.59 blocks per set.
- Alexis 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 11 matches this campaign. Conaway is hitting .318 on the season (seventh in the Big 12) and averaing 1.12 blocks per set, seventh in the Big 12.
- Morgan Kuhrt has become one of ISU's most important players during Big 12 play. In conference competition, Kuhrt has three double-doubles, averaging 2.50 kills per set and 1.77 digs per set.
- Iowa State is No. 12 in NCAA RPI. Of ISU's 10 losses this season, six have come at the hands of teams in the RPI Top 20 in Stanford (No. 1), two times to Texas (No. 2), Florida State (No. 3), Kansas (No. 14) and Kansas State (No. 18). ISU is one of 12 teams nationally with at least four wins over the RPI Top 25, defeating Kansas, Kansas State and No. 22 Oklahoma twice.