Texas Volleyball #1 vs. Oklahoma
Texas: 9-0 (1-0 Large 12) | Oklahoma: 10-2 (0-0 Large 12)
Saturday, September 24 – 7:00 p.m. CST
Gregory Gymnasium | Austin, TX
THE GAME
Texas leads the all-time sequence in opposition to Oklahoma, 59-4, after sweeping two video games in opposition to the Sooners final season. Logan Eggleston was named the Large 12 Offensive Participant of the Week after final season’s two wins, totaling 27 kills (4.50 per set) and hitting .455. The Longhorns have received the final 16 conferences in opposition to the Sooners, courting again to the 2014 season.
TOP RANKING TEXAS
Texas holds the No. 1 spot within the AVCA Coaches Ballot after beginning the 2022 season because the No. 2 ranked staff within the preseason ballot. The Longhorns appeared within the prime 4 within the AVCA preseason ballot for the sixteenth straight season and had been ranked within the prime two for the ninth time up to now 16 seasons. Since 2019, the Longhorns have spent a complete of 28 weeks at No. Texas, which was picked first within the Large 12 coaches’ ballot for the twelfth straight 12 months, is certainly one of two Large 12 groups within the prime 25 as Baylor registers at No. 14.
CONSTANT SUCCESS
Texas has been the mannequin of consistency for over a decade now, being the one Division I volleyball program to complete every of the final 16 seasons ranked within the prime 10. The Longhorns have handed every of the final 193 AVCA polls. ranked within the prime 10, whereas the final time Texas was not ranked within the prime 10 was October 11, 2010. The Longhorns have additionally completed within the prime 5 in 13 of the previous 16 seasons, together with 11 consecutive years from 2008-18. Texas additionally has the nation’s longest lively streak of NCAA Regional Semifinal (“Candy 16”) appearances with 16 consecutive video games. Of the final 16 regional semifinal appearances, the Longhorns have superior to fifteen NCAA regional finals, 10 nationwide semifinals and 5 nationwide championship video games.
THE LONG HORNS
The Longhorns stay undefeated and have 4 wins over groups at the moment ranked within the prime 10 of the AVCA ballot – Ohio State (2x), Minnesota and Stanford. Texas is certainly one of six undefeated groups within the nation and is the one staff with a 4-0 document in opposition to ranked opponents. The one staff with extra wins excessive 25 groups is Louisville with a 5-1 document. The Longhorns have dropped a complete of 5 units to date this season, the fewest of any Large 12 facet.
CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE
After clinching the 2021 Large 12 title, Texas has received 27 convention championships, together with 14 Large 12 titles and 13 Southwest Convention championships. The 2021 title was the fifth consecutive Large 12 championship for the Longhorns, who’ve received or shared 10 of the final 11 league championships and 13 of the earlier 15.
AS QUEEN
Logan Eggleston is poised to turn out to be the Longhorns’ all-time chief in profession aces, at the moment with 181 serving aces. Eggleston is poised to move Mira Matter (2001-04) who had 185 service aces in her Texas profession. Matter, who has gone 432 profession units, additionally holds this system document with 0.43 service aces per set. Eggleston at the moment averages 0.42 aces per set in his 426 units performed in his profession. Eggleston can also be chasing the Large 12 document of 205 profession aces, held by Taylor Barnes of Baylor (2006-09).
THE SPOTS EFFECT
Zoe Fleck has made an on the spot impression this season, beginning all eight video games on the Libero and averaging 4.66 digs per set. Fleck is second within the convention in digs per set and has already been named Large 12 Defensive Participant of the Week twice this season. Texas hasn’t had a participant common of greater than 4 digs per set since Cat McCoy set a program document with 4.41 digs per set in 2017. McCoy, Texas’ all-time profession chief , was named to the All-Large 12 second staff in 2015 and 2017.
ROAD WARRIORS
The Longhorns have received 25 of their final 26 highway video games for the reason that 2019 season. Because the 2011 season, Texas has produced a 106-19 (.848) document in actual highway video games, with simply 4 of these losses to unranked groups. The Longhorns’ final two highway losses have been to top-10 ranked Baylor.
CLASSIFY AND STORE
UT is 133-57 (.700) in opposition to ranked opponents over the previous 19 seasons (2004-22) and has a 61-13 (.824) house mark in opposition to ranked opponents at Gregory Gymnasium (58 -13) and on the Frank Erwin Middle (3-0) throughout this era. The Longhorns are already 4-0 this season in opposition to ranked opponents.
EFFICIENCY
Texas at the moment ranks second nationally and first within the Large 12 with a .318 hit proportion. Final season, Texas tied a program document and led the NCAA with a staff hitting proportion of .343. This mark corresponds to the staff of 2007 for one of the best at school historical past. The Longhorns have hit greater than a .300 clip in every of the previous seven seasons from 2015 via 2021, all rating within the prime 10 single-season marks in program historical past. Texas hit .334 in 2020 to complete third within the nation and that mark was fifth-best in Longhorn historical past. The 2019 staff additionally led the nation with a .325 hit proportion, which is sixth finest in Texas historical past.
THE LIST
Texas is returning seven gamers from the 2021 staff, together with three All-Large 12 gamers, and is house to top-of-the-line recruiting courses within the nation with 5 freshmen and 6 transfers. The acquainted faces of Logan Eggleston, Asjia O’Neal and Molly Phillips all come again. Of the freshmen, three are among the many prime 50 ranked recruits with Emma Halter and Gatorade State Gamers of the 12 months Devin Kahahawai and Marianna single. The switch group contains three gamers who’ve acquired All-America recognition, Zoe Fleck (UCLA/UCSB), Madisen Skinner (Kentucky) and Kayla Caffey (Nebraska/Missouri). The opposite three transfers all performed important roles at their earlier faculties, Jenna Ewert (Colorado), Bella Bergmark (cal) and Keonilei Akana (Nebraska).
HOME PITCH ADVANTAGE
An enormous a part of the Longhorns who’ve received 10 of the final 11 Large 12 championships comes right down to successful at house. Over the previous 12 seasons, Texas has produced a 166-11 (.938) document in house video games. Texas has additionally received 59 consecutive video games at house as a part of the Large 12, courting again to the 2014 season. Throughout that streak, the Longhorns had 46 sweeps and dropped solely a complete of 16 units. Over the previous 12 seasons, the Longhorns have gone 97-1 in house league video games. The Longhorns’ solely Large 12 house loss since 2010 got here in opposition to Oklahoma on October 25, 2014.
PRESENCE
Final season, Texas ranked fourth nationally and first within the Large 12, with a mean attendance of three,626. The Longhorns additionally set a single-game Gregory Health club attendance document with a crowd of 5,080 for the NCAA Regional Finals sport in opposition to Nebraska. For the season, Texas had six crowds of over 4,000 at Gregory Health club.
PRESEASON PRICE
Logan Eggleston was chosen because the Large 12 Pre-Season Participant of the 12 months for the second season in a row and was joined by Asjia O’Neal, Zoe Fleck and Madisen Skinner to the All-Large 12 preseason staff. The Longhorns had been chosen first within the Large 12 preseason ballot for the twelfth straight season and fifteenth time in program historical past.
NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Logan Eggleston was acknowledged because the 2021 VolleyballMag.com Nationwide Participant of the 12 months, marking the fourth time a Texas participant has been named the publication’s Nationwide Participant of the 12 months after Destinee Hooker (2009) and Haley Eckerman (2012 & 2013) . Eggleston was additionally AVCA Southwest Area Participant of the 12 months for the second consecutive season. The Longhorns have already received the award by Chiaka Ogbogu (2017) and Micaya White (2018). Eggleston can also be the primary consecutive recipient of the Large 12 Participant of the 12 months award since Eckerman received the award three consecutive seasons from 2012 to 2014. A participant from Texas was named league participant of the 12 months throughout of 10 of the final 12 years.
ACE IN THE HOLE
Longhorn’s service sport was lethal final season, rating second within the nation with a program document 2.20 aces per set (218 aces in 99 units). Melanie Parra led the Large 12 and ranked sixth nationally with 60 aces (0.61 per set). Parra’s 0.61 aces per set additionally set a program document. Logan Eggleston added 44 aces final season and Asjia O’Neal completed with 36.
ELLIOTT MAKES TEXAS HISTORY
October 22, 2021 at Iowa State Head Coach, Texas Jerritt Elliott received his 523rd sport at Texas, making him the winningest coach in Texas Longhorns Volleyball historical past. He surpassed Mick Haley, who received 522 video games at Texas from 1980 to 1996. Elliott’s .830 profession successful proportion is one of the best in program historical past.
HONDA INSPIRATION AWARD WINNER
Asjia O’Neal was named the winner of the 2021 Honda Inspiration Award, offered yearly by the Collegiate Girls Sports activities Awards (CWSA). O’Neal recovered from open-heart surgical procedure in 2020 to assist lead Texas to second place within the NCAA Event. The center surgical procedure came about in January 2020 and was her second to repair a leak in her mitral valve, a situation she was born with. The operation, which took over eight hours, was extraordinarily profitable and there was no additional leakage. O’Neal regained his full energy and completed second within the Large 12 convention with a .411 hit proportion to go along with 222 kills. She was named first-team All-Large 12 and first-team AVCA All-Area, in addition to an honorable point out All-American. She additionally excelled within the classroom, being named to the All-Large 12 Educational First Workforce as a company communications main.