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No. 5 Volleyball preview: NCAA Regionals
12.03.2018 | Volleyball
The Longhorns will travel to Provo, Utah to take on Michigan on Friday afternoon.
Volleyball preview: No. 5 Texas in the NCAA Regionals
Match 1: No. 5 Texas (22-4, 15-1) vs. Michigan (24-9, 11-9)
Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, 3 p.m. CT
Televison: ESPNU
Stream: WATCH ESPN
Texas all-time series with Michigan: Texas leads, 3-0 (H: 1-0, N: 2-0)
Last Texas Win: December 13, 2012 (3-1)
Match 2: No. 4 BYU (29-1, 17-1) vs. Florida (26-6, 15-3)
Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, 5:30 p.m. CT
Texas all-time series with BYU: Texas trails, 9-10 (H: 4-2, A: 2-4, N: 3-4)
Last Texas Win: December 9, 2016 (3-2)
Last BYU Win: December 18, 2014 (3-1)
Texas all-time series with Florida: Texas trails, 9-15 (H: 2-6, A: 4-7, N: 1-2)
Last Texas Win: August 25, 2018 (3-2)
Last Florida Win: August 25, 2017 (3-1)
Match 3: Regional Final
Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, 7 p.m. CT, ESPNU
NOTES
First and Second Rounds
-Texas hit .374 to secure two sweeps over Stephen F. Austin and Texas State to kick off the NCAA Tournament in Austin (.336 against Stephen F. Austin and .425 against Texas State).
-Freshman Logan Eggleston led the Longhorns in kills and hitting percentage with 30 kills (5.00/set), with only three errors on 45 swings for a .600 efficiency
-Junior Micaya White had 23 kills (3.83/set), hitting .254, and senior Yaazie Bedart-Ghani finished with 19 kills (3.17/set) hitting .400
-Freshman Sydney Petersen led in digs with 29 (4.83/set), senior Morgan Johnson led in blocks with six (0.83/set), junior Micaya White led in service aces with four (0.67/set), and freshman Jhenna Gabriel handled setting duties for most of the matches, finishing with 73 assists (12.17).
HITTING PERCENTAGE
-Texas ranks second in the nation in hitting percentage at .312. Only BYU (.316) has a higher accuracy
-The Longhorns have hit .210 or better in every match this season
-Texas is 20-0 when hitting .250 or better
-The Longhorns are 2-4 when hitting .249 or worse
-Texas' top-five hitters are all hitting .272 or better
--> Bedart-Ghani - .373
--> Butler - .358
--> Johnson - .364
--> White - .306
--> Eggleston - .272
TEXAS IN NCAA REGIONALS
-The Longhorns are making their 31st appearance in the Sweet 16 (13th-straight)
-Texas is one of two teams to advance to the Sweet 16 thirteen times in the last 14 years (Penn State is the other)
-The Longhorns have a 94-32 record all-time in the NCAA Tournament (74.6%)
-Elliott has a 56-15 NCAA Tournament record (78.9%)
JHENNA GABRIEL
-Gabriel took over setting duties on October 31st
-In the last seven matches, Texas is hitting .376 (340-76-702)
-Texas has lost only two sets in the last seven matches (18-2)
SYDNEY PETERSEN
-Petersen led Texas over the First and Second rounds with 29 total digs (4.83/set)
-She has 337 digs on the year (3.59/set), which would rank at No. 5 on the all-time career digs per set list
TEXAS FRESHMEN
-The Texas freshmen (Eggleston, Butler, Petersen, Gabriel) account for:
-38.7% of the team's kills (481/1246)
-31.2% of assists (380/1217)
-56.1% of service aces (60/107)
-42.0% of digs (520/1243)
-40.0% of blocks (171/427)
