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No. 2 Volleyball preview: TCU
10.17.2016 | Volleyball
The Longhorns will return home to host the Horned Frogs on Wednesday, Oct.19.
Match 17: TCU (10-7, 3-4) at No. 2 Texas (14-2, 6-0)
When: Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.
Where: Gregory Gym
Television: Fox Sports Network
Live Stream: Fox Sports Go
All-Time Series: Texas leads, 10-1 (H: 6-0, A: 4-1)
Last Texas win: Sept. 23, 2015 (3-0)
Last Baylor win: Oct. 28, 2015 (3-0)
Notes:
• The Longhorns are coming off of a 3-1 (21-25, 25-17, 25-17, 25-18) defeat of Baylor in Waco last Wednesday night. Four players finished with double-digit kills, including freshman Micaya White (16), junior Ebony Nwanebu (16), senior Paulina Prieto Cerame (12) and sophomore Yaazie Bedart-Ghani (10). Senior Chloe Collins led in assists with 50, senior Nicole Dalton led in digs with 12 and Bedart-Ghani led in blocks with nine.
• Bedart-Ghani's 10 kills came on 12 swings and no errors for a career-high .833 hitting percentage. She also posted a career-high nine blocks, three of them solo. She has been playing the middle blocker position since the Iowa State match on Oct. 8.
Bedart-Ghani's stats through two matches:
-17 kills (1.89/set) on 27 swings, 1 error
-.593 hitting percentage*
-11 blocks (1.22/set), 4 solo*
-25.5 points (2.83/set)
*team high
• Texas last Big 12 loss came at TCU on October 28, 2015. The Longhorns are 29-1 in conference play since October 25, 2014. It marks the only Horned Frog win in the series all-time history.
•Junior Ebony Nwanebu is leading the Longhorns in hitting percentage with a .367 clip through 13 matches. She has hit .400 or better in seven matches and .300 or better in all but two.
.400 or better
Lipscomb (.458, 25 kills)
Miami (.417, 12 kills)
vs. Wichita State (.415, 20 kills)
at West Virginia (.429, 13 kills)
Kansas (.514, 20 kills)
at Baylor (.483, 16 kills)
