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No. 4 Volleyball preview: at Florida
11.07.2025 | Volleyball
Longhorns start two-match road swing on Friday in Gainesville.
THE MATCHUP
Texas and Florida will meet for the 27th time in program history with the Gators holding the 15-11 advantage. The Longhorns have won six of the last 10 matches, including a two-match win streak.
The last time out, the Longhorns swept the Gators in Gainesville. Florida also owns a 4-4 record against ranked opponents this season, while Texas is now 9-2.
LEADING LONGHORNS
Texas leads the nation in kills per set (14.97) and assists per set (13.99). UT also ranks second in the NCAA with a .307 hitting percentage - first in the league.
SEC HEAVY HITTERS
Texas leads the conference in the aforementioned categories, but the Gators rank fifth in both assists per set (12.50) and kills per set (13.61). Three Gators rank in the top-10 in select categories led by Alexis Stucky who's fifth in the conference with 9.82 per set. The Longhorns' Ayden Ames is fourth in the conference with a .381 hitting percentage , Torrey Stafford is fourth in aces per set (0.35) and sixth in kills per set (4.39), while Ella Swindle is tied for sixth in assists per set (9.36). Emma Halter is now 10th with digs per set at 3.58.
CURRENT RANKED WINS
The No. 4 ranked Longhorns own the toughest non-con schedule in the country and hold the toughest RPI. Texas' nine ranked wins (No. 12 Creighton, No. 8 Wisconsin, No. 6 Stanford, No. 4 Louisville, No. 9 Arizona State, No. 9 TCU, No. 21 Baylor, No. 21 Missouri, and No. 17 Tennessee) is the most through 14 games in program history and surpassed the number of ranked wins last season (5).
RANKED SUCCESS
UT owns a 167-64 (.723) record against ranked opponents over the last 21 seasons (2004-24) and boasts a 76-16 (.826) home mark against ranked opponents at Gregory Gymnasium and the Frank Erwin Center (3-0) during that span. The Longhorns are now 1-0 against ranked opponents when playing at Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns finished 5-3 last season against ranked opponents.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE MACHINE
In 20 matches, Torrey Stafford has recorded nine double doubles in the Burnt Orange uniform. She totaled six during the entire 2024 season and only four her freshman season at Pitt. Ella Swindle is second on the team with five, while Emma Halter and Cari Spears each have one. To compare, Madisen Skinner led the Longhorns last season with eight total.
ROAD HORNS
The Longhorns have won 58 of their last 61 road matches dating back to the 2019 season. Texas went on a 13-0 run on the road after two seasons in road conference matches in the SEC before suffering its first loss at Texas A&M (10/31). Before that, the last true road conference loss came against Kansas State (Big 12) on Nov. 8, 2023, marking 14-straight road conference wins for UT. Since the 2011 season Texas has produced a 133-24 (.847) record in true road matches, with only seven of those losses coming to unranked teams.
MILESTONES COLLECTED AND TO WATCH
Torrey Stafford recorded her 1000th career kill in the win against Arkansas and surpassed 600 career digs at Ole Miss. Cari Spears and Abby Vander Wal have reached 200 kills as freshmen and Ella Swindle surpassed 400 career digs against OU and needs one assists to reach the 2,000 career marker. Emma Halter now has 101 career aces and moved into No. 10 on the UT All-Time career digs list with 1,169. She also needs 27 aces to No. 10 on the UT list.
TEXAS DRAW
In the second match of the season, Wisconsin hosted the Longhorns in front of 11,678 fans for a then-fifth highest attended match in Badger history. The fans followed UT when they traveled to Houston and broke Rice's attendance record with 3,017 people. Later in the season, Georgia set its then-season high in attendance at 4,518. Last on the list, Mississippi State set their then-12th highest attended match with 962 fans. Texas continued to draw attention when they won at Ole Miss with the then-season high attendance total of 1,035. Baton Rouge was no different with Texas helping LSU set its third-largest attendance in Tiger history with 2,632 fans. Texas set the LSU attendance record in 2024 with 3,885. All eyes were on the Lone Star State in the Cotton Holdings Showdown when Reed Arena set a new attendance record at 9,801 fans.
