Thursday, October 21
Fort Worth, Texas
6:30 PM
TCU
vs
Kansas State
Preview: TCU vs. Kansas State
10/20/2021 12:10:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
The Horned Frogs Host Kansas State Thursday and Friday
FORT WORTH – TCU volleyball continues Big 12 Conference play with a home series against Kansas State (11-6, 2-4) this week inside Schollmaier Arena. The Horned Frogs are looking to regain momentum from their last home match, when TCU defeated Oklahoma, 3-2, in front of the largest crowd since moving to Schollmaier Arena.
Series History: TCU vs Kansas State
Series Information
| TCU vs. Kansas St. | Thursday, Oct, 21 | 6:30 p.m. | Live Stats | Watch Live |
| TCU vs. Kansas St. | Friday, Oct, 22 | 6:30 p.m. | Live Stats | Watch Live |
Series History: TCU vs Kansas State
- This will be the 19th and 20th all-time meetings between TCU and Kansas State. K-State leads the all-time series 12-6.
- The Horned Frogs are 4-4 against Kansas State in Fort Worth including a 3-2 record at home in the Jill Kramer era.
- Junior Mykayla Myers enjoyed one of her best series of the 2020-21 season against K-State last season, posting 22 kills (2.75 kills/set) on .409 hitting with .88 blocks/set in her two matches in Manhattan.
- Junior Julia Adams set her career high, 25 kills, in her last match against Kansas State - a 3-2 loss on the road (11/14/20)
- One quarter of Dani Dennison's 20+ dig matches in Big 12 play over her career have come against the Wildcats (two of eight).
- Senior Dani Dennison will end her career as the greatest DS/L in program history.
- She set the TCU program record for career digs earlier this season. She now stands at 1,461.
- Dennison has played in all 126 matches over her college career, starting a majority at libero. She holds the 2nd longest streak of consecutive matches played in program history. She will set the all-time record should she play in both matches this week.
- She is second on the team this year in digs/set (2.19), including 3.00 in Big 12 matches and leads the team with 14 service aces.
- Since returning to the libero role five matches ago, Dennison is averaging a team-best 3.29 digs/set.
- Dennison led TCU in digs last season, finishing with 287 in 21 matches, becoming the first Horned Frog in program history to lead the team in total digs over three seasons (2017, 2019 and 2020/21). She is 39 digs shy of the team-lead this season. There has never been a Horned Frog lead the team in digs across four separate seasons.
- K-State enters the week with an 11-6 record, 2-4 in Big 12 action.
- The Wildcats have split their last two conference series (at Oklahoma and vs. West Virginia) after being swept twice at home by No. 11 Baylor.
- They are led offensively by sophomore OH Aliyah Carter. The undersized outside is second in the Big 12 and tied for 32nd in the nation with 4.15 kill/set. Her 270 kills this season is by far the most on the team, with no other Wildcat collecting more than 150 thus far.
- K-State's setter, Teana Adams-Kaonohi, tops the conference with 10.82 assists/set (18th in the country).
- The Wildcats have two local athletes on their roster. Starting libero Mackenzie Morris is from Dallas (Ursuline Academy) while OH Jayden Nembhard, younger sister of former TCU men's basketball player R.J. Nembhard, hails from Keller (Keller HS).
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