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12.02.2017 | Volleyball
AMES, Iowa – Only 30 teams remain in the 2017 NCAA Volleyball Championship and tonight that number will be narrowed down to 16. No. 22 Iowa State will be looking to extend its season for another week when it hosts No. 11 Wisconsin tonight at 6:30 p.m. inside Hilton Coliseum.
Tickets are on sale now through the Iowa State Ticket Office, here, or can be purchased prior to the match, starting at 5:30 p.m., at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office at the lower southwest corner of Hilton. Iowa State students can receive free tickets to the match be presenting their Student ID at the Hilton Coliseum Ticket Office, starting at 5:30 p.m.
Tonight's match will be televised on Cyclones.TV Powered by Mediacom and for free on the Cyclones.TV web player, here. Live stats will be provided by Iowa State, here. Fans can also receive updates on Iowa State Volleyball's social media channels: @CycloneVB on Twitter, and @IowaStateVB on Instagram.
These two teams each made it through their first round games yesterday via sweeps, Iowa State over Ivy League champions Princeton and Wisconsin over in-state rival Marquette. ISU was led by a career-high 14 kills from Grace Lazard, who earned them at a .522 hitting percentage. Jess Schaben also had 14 kills, and finished with a double-double with 11 digs. Monique Harris also had a double-double with 35 assists and 16 digs.
Wisconsin was led by 11 kills each from Kelli Bates, Grace Loberg and Dana Rettke. Bates finished with a double-double, adding 10 digs, while Loberg came off the bench to get her 11 kills at a .550 hitting percentage. Badgers libero Tiffany Clark finished with 19 digs.
Iowa State and Wisconsin have a long history of meeting in the NCAA Second Round, as this will be the fourth time in the last 12 seasons the two teams have collided at this point. However, this will be the first meeting between the two teams in Ames. Wisconsin got the win over Iowa State in 2006 and 2015, while the Cyclones swept the Badgers in Madison in 2007 to advance to the program's first ever Sweet 16. Iowa State head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch was an assistant at Wisconsin from 1997-2004.