AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State volleyball team will wrap up the 2014 regular season Saturday at Hilton Coliseum as the Cyclones host Baylor at 4:30 p.m. The match will serve as Senior Day, as ISU will honor seniors
Taylor Goetz and
Victoria Hurtt after the match.
Tickets to the match can be purchased on cyclones.com now (click
here) or on the day of the match at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office, located on the lower Southwest corner of Hilton. Fans with tickets to Saturday morning's football game against West Virginia can redeem his or her football ticket at teh Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office for $2 to the match.
The match will be shown live on Cyclones.TV Powered by Mediacom and the Cyclones.TV web player. For more information, 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. Due to rules and regulations about coverage of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament, this will be the final live blog of the season.
Cyclone Headlines
- The Iowa State volleyball team will close out the Big 12 regular season Saturday with a match against Baylor at 4:30 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum. The match will serve as Senior Day, with ISU honoring seniors Taylor Goetz and Victoria Hurtt after the match.
- The Cyclones are winners of five of their past six matches after the Cyclones swept Texas Tech Wednesday night. Hurtt led the offense with 14 kills at a .343 hitting percentage with Morgan Kuhrt posting 10 kills. Caitlin Nolan had 21 digs.
- In the win over TTU, Hurtt became the ninth player in program history to record 1,000 career kills. The senior from Kansas City, Mo. ranks second on the Cyclones with 2.66 kills per set while also ranking third on the squad in blocking, averaging 0.56 blocks per set.
- Nolan leads the Big 12 and ranks fifth nationally at 5.72 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. Nolan has 561 digs on the season, the eighth-most in a season in ISU history, and is one of 14 Cyclones with 1,000 career digs.
- 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 .321 on the season (sixth in the Big 12) and averaing 1.09 blocks per set, seventh in the Big 12.
- Kuhrt has become one of ISU's most important players during Big 12 play. In conference competition, Kuhrt has three double-doubles, averaging 2.62 kills per set and 1.84 digs per set.
- Iowa State is No. 12 in NCAA RPI. Of ISU's nine 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.