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No. 4 Volleyball preview: Oklahoma
10.11.2019 | Volleyball
Longhorns return home to host OU in sold-out Gregory Gym
No. 4 Texas vs. Oklahoma
Texas: 10-2, 4-0 | OU: 11-4, 3-1
Saturday, Oct. 12 – 5 p.m.
Gregory Gym | Austin, Texas
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PARKING: NEW FOR 2019
Parking is available on match days in the Speedway Garage ($10) or Brazos Garage ($15). Discounted parking is available in advance online at Click and Park (Speedway Garage, $8). Passes must be purchased by 10 p.m. the day prior to the match.
Two hundred (200) seats are being held for student Big Ticket purchasers, available on a first come, first served basis. Any tickets not allocated to students, based on attendance on game day, will be sold as general admission tickets at the door, pending availability. Otherwise, the best place to purchase tickets at this point are from Stub Hub, from season ticket holders who are unable to attend the match.
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NOTES
•Texas is 10-2, 4-0 on the season
•Wins over UNI (RV), No. 14 USC, No. 8 Minnesota, No. 13 BYU, Wichita State, Texas A&M, Iowa State, Texas Tech, TCU & K-State
•Losses at No. 1 Stanford and at Rice (RV)
•Micaya White has five double-doubles on the season.
-Vs. UNI: 18k, 13d
-Vs. Minnesota: 16k, 10d
-Vs. BYU: 21k, 14d
-At Rice: 16k, 14d
-Vs. ISU: 19k, 10d
•Logan Eggleston has three double-doubles on the season
-Vs. Minnesota: 15k, 13d
-vs. BYU: 25k, 11d
-at KSU: 11k, 11d
•Micaya White is currently 15th in the country for active career leaders for total kills
•Texas leads the nation in hitting percentage as a team at .329, but no individual is higher than 93rd in the individual rankings (Skylar Fields, .346)
•Texas played in front of the 15th best single match volleyball attendance on campus (Gregory & Erwin Center) with an attendance of 4328 against Texas A&M.
•The match vs. OU is the fourth sell-out of the season. The match vs. Baylor is also already sold out.
•The Longhorns are currently 6th in the nation in average attendance at 3,773, which is on pace to be the second highest season average in Gregory Gym history (3,780 high in 2013)
•Texas has a 51-4 all-time record against the Sooners and are on a 9-0-win streak since the 2014 season. They are 26-2 against OU in Gregory all-time
• Oklahoma is 11-4 and 3-1 entering Saturday's match
• In 2018, Oklahoma completed one of the biggest single season turnarounds in program history during head coach Lindsey Gray-Walton's inaugural season. The Sooners registered a 17-11 overall record and earned a share of third place in the Big 12 Conference to match the team's second-best finish all-time. OU also earned a program record four all-conference selections.
• The Sooners return 11 players from the 2018 season, including Big 12 Libero of the Year Keyton Kinley and Big 12 Setter of the Year Kylee McLaughlin.
• McLaughlin and Kinley were unanimous selections to the 2019 Preseason All-Big 12 squad after earning first team All-Big 12 honors in 2018.
