TCU Falls in Four at Kansas

Saturday, November 20

Lawrence, KS

6:30 PM

TCU

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Kansas

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TCU

Kansas

TCU Falls in Four at Kansas

11/20/2021 9:35:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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20 digs from Dennison and 18 kills from Adams not enough in Lawrence.

LAWRENCE, Kan. – TCU Volleyball never stopped fighting in a four-set defeat to Kansas on Saturday night inside Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. Dani Dennison made 20 digs along with 18 kills from Julia Adams as TCU fell, 3-1 (15-25, 18-25, 25-23, 20-25).

TCU NOTABLES:

Senior Dani Dennison led the team with 20 digs (5 digs/set).
She improves her career total to 1,579 – the most in program history.
This was Dennison's program-record 80^th career double-digit dig match and 18^th career 20+ dig performance.
Dennison has recorded back-to-back 20 dig matches for the third time in her career and first time this season.
She served two aces as well, improving her season total to 23 – a new career-best for aces in a single season.
Dennison finishes the series with 47 digs (5.22 digs/set) and six aces.
Julia Adams recorded 18 kills. It was her 16^th 10+ kill performance of the season and 38^th of her career.
She finishes the series with 37 kills (4.11 kills/set).
McKenzie Nichols made 36 assists, along with three aces, the most service aces in a four-set match against KU in program history.
Audrey Nalls recorded a new season-best 14 digs. She finishes the series with 19 kills (2.1 kills/set) and 27 digs ((3 digs/set).
Zoe Hall and Mykayla Myers each led the team with four blocks.
Hall has recorded at least 1 block/set in four straight matches: 21 blocks in her last 18 sets played.
TCU made nine aces as a team for the second straight match. 18 aces are the most in consecutive matches for TCU since 2016 (22 aces vs. Texas Tech and West Virginia).
Nichols led the team with three aces, followed by two from Dennison, two from Hall and one each from Nalls and Ashley Wehrstein.

HOW IT HAPPENED:
Set 1 (KU, 25-15): Kansas made five blocks on the first 15 points to jump in front, 10-5. Kansas broke the set open with an 8-0 scoring run to make it 18-7, before holding on to win the set by 10. Dani Dennison was all over the back row, making eight digs, but eight KU blocks doomed the Frogs.

Set 2 (KU, 25-18): Julia Adams made four straight kills early in the second set to erase a hot start from Kansas and tie the set, 6-6. But a 10-4 Kansas run put the Jayhawks in front for good, 19-13. TCU cut the lead to just four points (17-21) thanks to a block from Hall and Nichols, but the mid-set scoring run was too much to overcome and KU took the set by seven points. Adams finished the set with seven kills, putting her in double digits for the match, while Dennison added four digs to bring her total to 12 through two sets.

Set 3 (TCU, 25-23): The outlook was bleak for TCU as Kansas led, 20-16, late in the set, but TCU upped its level at the service line, with Hall and Nichols sending down aces to send TCU on a 9-3 run to close out the set. Nichols distributed the ball very well on offense with four Frogs contributing kills in the run, led by two from Adams. By the end of the set, TCU had five aces, one each from Hall, Dennison, Nalls, Nichols and Wehrstein to help overcome Kansas and force a fourth set. The defense was at an all-time high from both teams as TCU and KU combined for 42 digs in the third. Dennison, of course, led TCU with seven, bringing her overall match total to 19 through three sets.

Set 4 (KU, 25-20): Kansas opened up the fourth on a 6-1 run as the KU block continued to wreak havoc on the TCU attack. The Frogs battled to get within one point, 12-13, but another KU scoring run pushed the lead to 14-21 and KU claimed the set by five points. Adams tacked on another five kills while Nalls took over the main defensive duties, recording seven digs as Kansas adjusted to try and hit the ball away from Dennison on the back line.

UP NEXT:
The Horned Frogs (8-16, 2-12) return to Schollmaier Arena for senior weekend against West Virginia (17-9, 6-8). TCU will battle WVU on Friday, Nov. 26 and Saturday, Nov. 27, at 6:30 p.m.

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