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Waco, Texas
6 p.m.
Kansas State University
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Baylor
Wildcats Face Final Road Test at No. 19 Baylor
Nov 14, 2017 | Volleyball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – In its final Big 12 road match, K-State volleyball will take on No. 19 Baylor Wednesday night at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas, with first serve set for 6 p.m., and a national broadcast on FOX Sports Southwest.
BU (21-5, 11-2) will be the 10th ranked opponent K-State (9-17, 2-11 Big 12) has faced this season, its highest total since the 2010 season (11). The Wildcats look to even the season series after then-No. 25 Baylor claimed a four-set win at Ahearn Field House earlier this season. The teams have split the season series in each of the last four seasons.
The Cats lead the Big 12 in service aces in conference-only matches, accumulating 64 through 13 league matches. Redshirt junior Kylee Zumach leads the way with a career-best 28 aces and has recorded at least one ace in each of her last six matches – the longest streak by a Wildcat since 2012.
Wednesday's match will be televised to a national audience on FOX Sports Southwest while fans can also listen to Rob Voelker call the action on KMAN 1350 AM, 93.3 FM and at k-statesports.com.
AT A GLANCE
BU (21-5, 11-2) will be the 10th ranked opponent K-State (9-17, 2-11 Big 12) has faced this season, its highest total since the 2010 season (11). The Wildcats look to even the season series after then-No. 25 Baylor claimed a four-set win at Ahearn Field House earlier this season. The teams have split the season series in each of the last four seasons.
The Cats lead the Big 12 in service aces in conference-only matches, accumulating 64 through 13 league matches. Redshirt junior Kylee Zumach leads the way with a career-best 28 aces and has recorded at least one ace in each of her last six matches – the longest streak by a Wildcat since 2012.
Wednesday's match will be televised to a national audience on FOX Sports Southwest while fans can also listen to Rob Voelker call the action on KMAN 1350 AM, 93.3 FM and at k-statesports.com.
AT A GLANCE
- Saturday, K-State (9-17, 2-11 Big 12) fell in five sets to TCU at Ahearn Field House.
- It was the 10th five-set match the Wildcats have played this season - a new single-season high (3-7).
- Outside hitter Kylee Zumach paced the offense with 18 kills while outside hitter Alyssa Schultejans was second with 11.
- It marked the 60th career match for Zumach reaching double-figure kills.
- The Cat defense posted 13 team blocks, led by Macy Flowers with eight and Elle Sandbothe with seven.
- It was the seventh time this season K-State has picked up double-digit blocks.
- Libero Reilly Killeen had a team-high 18 digs and defensive specialist Devan Fairfield recorded 12.
- K-State extended its season-long losing streak to eight matches, tying the second-longest such streak under head coach Suzie Fritz.
- No. 19 Baylor (21-5, 11-2 Big 12) are alone in second place in the Big 12 standings after a sweep of No. 11 Kansas in Lawrence.
- The Bears have won nine of their last 10 matches overall, including the last five and a stretch that includes three top-25 victories.
- Monday, the Big 12 announced freshman Yossiana Pressley as both Offensive Player and Freshman of the Week - the first time in conference history a single freshman as earned four Offensive Player of the Week honors.
- Teammate Shelly Fanning claimed the league's Defensive Player of the Week award.
- Pressley leads the Big 12 while Katie Staiger is third in kills per set in conference matches.
- Three Bears rank in the league's top 10 in terms of hitting efficiency (Camryn Freiberg, Fanning, Pressley).
- As a team in conference-only matches, BU is tops in the league in kills per set, assists per set and opponent hitting percentage.
- K-State leads the all-time series, 28-16, dating back to 1993.
- Then-25th-ranked Baylor took a four-set decision earlier this season at Ahearn Field House.
- K-State is 11-10 all-time in Waco and has dropped its last two matches at the Ferrell Center.
- Head coach Suzie Fritz is 21-12 in her career vs. Baylor, including an 8-8 mark at Baylor.
- The teams have split the last 10 meetings in the series.
- K-State and Baylor have split the season series each year since 2013.
- Wednesday's match at No. 19 Baylor will be K-State's 10th match against a team ranked in the AVCA Top 25 (0-9).
- The 10 ranked opponents are the most K-State has faced in a single season since 2010 (11).
- It is the second time this season the Cats will have faced a ranked Baylor squad. The last time K-State faced a ranked BU team twice in a season was 2009.
- Dating back to last season, the Cats have lost their last 14 matches to ranked opponents.
- K-State is 1-21 in its last 22 matches against ranked teams, going back to 2014.
- The last win against a top-25 team was a four-set win at No. 6 Hawaii on Aug. 27, 2016.
- Last week at Kansas, Kylee Zumach became just the fifth Wildcat to play her entire career in the rally-scoring era (since 2001) to join the 1,000-kill club.
- She is the 18th player in program history to reach the plateau and her total places her seventh in program history during the rally-scoring era.
- A redshirt junior, Zumach reached the 1,000-kill milestone in just three seasons.
- She joins former outside hitter Brooke Sassin (2014-16) as the only Wildcats to reach 1,000 kills in three seasons in the rally-scoring era.
- K-State's 10 five-set matches this season is a new single-season program record.
- The Wildcats are 3-7 in five-setters, as their last three victories have all come in five sets.
- The seven losses are the most in a season since 2006 (0-7).
- Eight of K-State's last 14 matches have gone to a fifth set.
- The next-highest five-set total in the conference is Kansas' six matches (4-2).
- K-State's eight three-set matches would set a new single-season low (9 in 1986).
- In conference-only matches, K-State is best in the Big 12 with 64 service aces and 1.14 aces/set.
- K-State last led the Big 12 in aces/set in league-only matches in 2012 with 1.42.
- Wednesday at KU, the Cats matched their season high with eight aces and added five more in a five-set loss to TCU Saturday.
- In conference matches, Zumach (0.32) ranks third in aces per set.
- Setter Brooke Smith and Zumach are tied for third at 0.26 aces/set in overall matches.
- This season, Zumach has more than doubled her career total with 28 aces behind six matches with multiple aces.
- Zumach has recorded an ace in six consecutive matches, the longest streak by any Wildcat since Lilla Porubek's six straight in 2012.
- Zumach had 20 career aces entering the 2017 season.
- As a team, the Cats have at least five aces in 14 of 26 matches.
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