Texas Tech University Athletics
Tech Volleyball Heads To Ames To Face the Cyclones
November 25, 2014 | Women's Volleyball
Nov. 25, 2014
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech volleyball will play its final match of the 2014 regular season on Wednesday, Nov. 26, against Iowa State, in Ames, Iowa. First serve is set for 6:30 p.m., and will be streamed on Cyclones.TV.
Due to a rule protest in the Oct. 18 Iowa State at Texas Tech volleyball match, the Big 12 Conference, in conjunction with the two member institution administrations, has announced that the match will be replayed from the time of the error.
The match will be resumed at the point of the protest in the fifth set - with the score Texas Tech 8, Iowa State 5 with ISU serving - on Wednesday, Nov. 26, in Ames at Noon CT. The two teams are scheduled to play their second contest of the conference season later that day. The NCAA Rules Committee determined that ISU's protest of a misapplication of a rule in the fifth set was valid and would be upheld. The Conference has also reprimanded the involved official from the Oct. 18 match and took away an assignment.
While the determination of how to proceed with the disputed match was under consideration, the result was handled as a "no contest" by the NCAA. However, the NCAA provided the Big 12 flexibility to include the result and stats in Conference information while the resolution of the protest was pending.
The Conference office and NCAA will adjust the outcome and statistics from the point of resumption following the result of the replayed portion of the match on Wednesday. Because the contest is being played in Ames instead of carried out at its original location in Lubbock, the replayed match will not be open to the public in order to maintain as neutral an atmosphere as possible.
Only necessary game management personnel and administrators will be permitted to be in attendance.
This will be the 41st matchup between the Red Raiders (15-12, 3-12) and Cyclones with Tech and ISU (15-10, 7-7) tied, 20-20, all time, with the Cyclones taking the last eight matches, before Tech's five-set win on Oct. 18, which is under protest.
Tech is looking to snap a season-high nine-game losing streak.
Ace In The Hole
Senior All-American Rachel Brummitt is not only a force to be reckoned with on the serve receive, she can do damage from the service line herself. Her 33 service aces rank third in the Big 12.
Starting Fast
Texas Tech volleyball had a historic start to 2014, winning its first 13 games. The Red Raiders have not started 13-0 since 1996, when they began the season 15-0. Texas Tech's best start in school history is a 16-0 beginning to the 1976 season, a year in which Tech also put together its longest winning streak in school history, 17 games.
Tech's 13-game winning streak was only the eighth double-digit winning streak in school history, and this marked the fifth time such a streak has begun the season. 13-0 was Tech's third-best start in school history.
Dishing It Out
Junior setter Emily Ruetter, in just over two years, has become one of Tech's most prolific setters in school history. She just fell short of entering Tech's all-time top-10 for single-season assists in 2013, but she ranks seventh career-wise in program history, with 2,745 assists, and is second on the Big 12's all-time active list. Even with the intense competition Tech has at setter in 2014, Ruetter will still find herself climbing the all-time lists.
In The Conference Room
Texas Tech currently leads the Big 12 in digs per set (16.65). The Red Raiders rank third in the Big 12 in opponent hitting percentage (.185), and fourth in blocks per set (2.36). Individually, Lauren Douglass ranks eighth in the Big 12 in hitting percentage (.314).
Two Red Raiders rank in the Big 12's top 10 in points per set. Jenna Allen averages 3.60 points per set, good enough for sixth, and Breeann David ranks eighth, at 3.57.
Making An Adjustment
Texas Tech is 16-11 in the third set of matches in 2014. The Red Raiders are outscoring opponents 512-572 in the set following the intermission--their largest margin of any set.
Cardiac Kids
Texas Tech has played six matches that have gone five sets in 2014, and gone 5-1. In four of those matches, the Red Raiders had to play from behind. In two of those four, they erased 0-2 deficits.
Gettin' Diggy With It
In only one season, Rachel Brummitt went from a relatively unknown transfer to a school single-season and career record holder and one of the top liberos in the Big 12. She has already broken her own school and conference records with a 39-dig performance in four sets against Air Force. She has been tabbed as Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week twice this season. Her five weekly defensive awards over her career rank fifth in Big 12 history. Not only that, but she is now Texas Tech's all-time leader in career digs.
TTU All-Time Dig Leaders
1. Rachel Brummitt (2012-Pres.) 1,612
2. Lisa Hilgers (1995-98) 1,583
3. Ann Romjue (1999-02) 1,520
4. Cristine Martin (1993-97) 1,323
5. Melissa McGehee (1999-02) 1,270
6. Jenn Goehry (2006-09) 1,229
7. Skydra Orzen (1998-01) 1,221
8. Chris Martin (1988-91) 1,152
9. Sheila Soloman (1987-90) 1,139
10. Sabrina Zenon (1988-91) 1,131
