BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - No. 20 WKU Volleyball continues its 2021 C-USA schedule as Middle Tennessee visits The Hill on Friday and Saturday. WKU is off to a 16-1 start to the season and has swept its last nine matches. The Tops are 52-16 all-time against The Blue Raiders, including a 17-match win streak starting in 2011.
Both weekend matches will be streamed for free on Facebook Live via the Hilltopper Sports Satellite Network (HSSN) Facebook page with Brett Williams on the call. The matches will also be available on CUSA.tv, Conference USA's home for live events, for fans who elect to subscribe.
As is the case for every Hilltopper match this season, all the action will also be available on the radio with Brett Williams on the play-by-play call. Friday night's match will be on 98.3 The Edge in Bowling Green while Saturday's contest will be back on ESPN Radio 102.7.
WKU Volleyball's 37-match conference winning streak is the longest of the sort in NCAA Division I. Texas is in second at 26 while the only other team with a streak above 20, coming in at 22, in High Point. The Hilltoppers also own the longest road winning streak in all of NCAA Volleyball with 19-straight wins.
The Tops have claimed sole possession of the No. 20 spot in this week's AVCA rankings. They visited FIU two weekends ago, as well as Eastern Kentucky the following Wednesday before hitting the bye weekend. Middle Tennessee is coming off of a weekend where it won back-to-back matches against FIU, beating the Panthers, 3-1 on Friday and 3-2 on Saturday.
MTSU is off to a 7-5 start to the 2021 campaign and owns the second-best record in C-USA's East Division at 5-1. In last year's abbreviated season the Hilltoppers and Blue Raiders squared off in Murfreesboro. WKU took both matches, earning two sweeps.
PARKING
Fans can park in Parking Structure 2 (located between the football stadium and E.A. Diddle Arena) and enter through the Gate 2 entrance.
TICKETS
Flexible season ticket packages are on sale now and include 13 vouchers that fans can use at any regular-season home match in whatever fashion they choose. Fans can opt for the traditional use of one ticket for all 13 home matches or bring a group to a few matches. Flexible ticket packages are available for $50 at WKUTickets.com, by calling 1-800-5-BIGRED or by coming to the WKU Ticket Office during regular business hours.
Single match tickets are available at the door on game day or online during the week of each match.
Additionally, Friday night's match will be free admission as the team has deemed it their Hope for Harlie/Friends of Jaclyn fundraiser night. An online auction featuring signed uniforms from WKU Volleyball and Hilltopper Basketball as well as jerseys and framed photos from Lady Topper Basketball and a football signed by Tyson Helton are all available to bid on. The auction will close Sunday night and requires bidders to create an account first. VISIT AUCTION SITE
TOP STORYLINES
- These will be the 69th and 70th all-time meetings between WKU and Middle Tennessee; a series in which WKU leads 52-16.
- The Tops have won 37 straight regular season Conference USA matches with their last loss dating back to October of 2018.
- WKU has held teams to an average of just .128 hitting clip. Middle Tennessee is averaging a hitting clip of .212 so far this season.
- The Hilltoppers have won 27 straight sets and has only lost five sets all season, with three coming against Ole Miss: the Tops' lone loss in 2021.
- WKU has been predicted to win the East Division in the Conference USA Preseason Poll voted by the league's coaches. Paige Briggs, Nadia Dieudonne, and Lauren Matthews were all selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team. After meeting in last year's tournament championship Rice was predicted to win the West Division again this season.
- Lauren Matthews leads the team in kills this season with 231. Matthews is currently 14th in all time kills by a Hilltopper with 1,205.
- Friday and Saturdays matches will be the 9th and 10th home matches of the season for the Tops, in which they are 7-1.
- WKU Volleyball is more accessible than ever with radio broadcasts for every match. The Tops are 1 of just 10 Division I Volleyball programs that currently have live radio for home and away matches.
How to Follow WKU Volleyball: For complete information on WKU Volleyball, follow the team on Twitter at @WKUVolleyball and head coach Travis Hudson at @TravisHudsonWKU. The team is also on Instagram and Facebook.
"middle" - Google News
October 15, 2021 at 03:38AM
https://ift.tt/3lG8KfD
No. 20 WKU Volleyball Welcomes Middle Tennessee to The Hill - WKU Athletics
"middle" - Google News
https://ift.tt/2MY042F
Shoes Man Tutorial
Pos News Update
Meme Update
Korean Entertainment News
Japan News Update
No comments:
Post a Comment