Friday, December 2
Madison, WI
4:30 PM
TCU
vs
Washington
TCU Readies for Return to NCAA Tournament vs. No. 25 Washington
12/1/2022 3:08:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Horned Frogs are set to square off with the Huskies at 4:30 p.m. on Friday
MADISON – TCU is just one day away from dusting off its dancing shoes.
The Horned Frogs are set to battle No. 25 Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at 4:30 p.m. CT on Friday inside the UW Field House in Madison, Wisconsin.
The match between the Horned Frogs (16-10, 11-5 Big 12) and Huskies (20-10, 12-8 Pac-12) will be televised on ESPN+.
TCU is making its first trip to the Big Dance since 2016 and fourth in its 27-year program history. The Horned Frogs enter Friday's tilt as winners of five straight contests and 11-of-14 overall. UW went 4-4 in November en route to a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12 standings.
A victory over the Huskies pairs TCU with the winner of Friday's nightcap between No. 3 overall seed and region host Wisconsin (25-3) or Quinnipiac (14-14) in the round of 32 on Saturday. First serve for the second-round tilt is slated for 6 p.m. CT.
Match Info
Teams: TCU vs. No. 25 Washington
Date: Friday, Dec. 2
Location: UW Field House in Madison, Wisconsin
Streaming Platform: ESPN+
Live Stats: NCAA.com
Tickets: UWBadgers.com
Inside the Region
Audrey Nalls
Past Postseason Experience on the Frogs Roster
Eighteen of the 19 players listed on TCU's roster are making their NCAA Tournament debuts, although the cupboard is far from bare in terms of postseason familiarity:
The Horned Frogs are set to battle No. 25 Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at 4:30 p.m. CT on Friday inside the UW Field House in Madison, Wisconsin.
The match between the Horned Frogs (16-10, 11-5 Big 12) and Huskies (20-10, 12-8 Pac-12) will be televised on ESPN+.
TCU is making its first trip to the Big Dance since 2016 and fourth in its 27-year program history. The Horned Frogs enter Friday's tilt as winners of five straight contests and 11-of-14 overall. UW went 4-4 in November en route to a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12 standings.
A victory over the Huskies pairs TCU with the winner of Friday's nightcap between No. 3 overall seed and region host Wisconsin (25-3) or Quinnipiac (14-14) in the round of 32 on Saturday. First serve for the second-round tilt is slated for 6 p.m. CT.
Match Info
Teams: TCU vs. No. 25 Washington
Date: Friday, Dec. 2
Location: UW Field House in Madison, Wisconsin
Streaming Platform: ESPN+
Live Stats: NCAA.com
Tickets: UWBadgers.com
Inside the Region
- The jaunt to Madison marks TCU's sixth postseason trip.
- The Horned Frogs were one-of-five Big 12 teams to receive NCAA Tournament berths.
- Jason Williams joined Jill Kramer as one-of-two first-year head coaches to guide TCU to the NCAA Tournament in their inaugural year at the helm.
- TCU is 2-3 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. The Horned Frogs achieve Round of 64 wins over Rice in 2009 and Wichita State in 2016.
- TCU is riding it's first-ever five-match Big 12 winning streak into Madison. A total of 35 days have passed since TCU last lost on the court, marking their longest uninterrupted stretch of days without a loss in program history. TCU has won eight of its last 10 contests.
- TCU and Washington have never met on the volleyball court. The teams are nearly identical in the NCAA RPI. UW boasts the No. 37 ranking while TCU checked in at No. 39 following the final regular season update.
- Should they meet on Saturday, the Horned Frogs and Badgers will be no strangers to each other. TCU and Wisconsin have opened the 2021 and 2022 regular seasons opposite one another as a part of the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge.
- After being tabbed to place seventh in the Big 12 Volleyball Preseason Poll, TCU finished third outright in the Big 12 standings for the first time in 11 years of conference membership. The Horned Frogs also set a program record for most Big 12 wins in a season (11).
- TCU enjoyed the largest win improvement of any Power Five conference program in 2022. The Horned Frogs were the only team across the Power Five ranks to double their overall win total and quintuple their conference victories from 2021. TCU's nine-win improvement in conference play was also the best of any program in the 64-team NCAA Tournament field.
- TCU finished undefeated at home in conference play for the first time ever. TCU joined No. 1 Texas as one of only two teams to emerge from their 2022 Big 12 home slate unblemished.
- The Horned Frogs concluded the regular season ranked second only to the Longhorns in the Big 12 in assists per set (12.49) and opponent hitting percentage (.202). TCU also finished among their conference peers third in kills per set (13.23) and service aces per set (1.36).
- TCU is no stranger to comeback success. Eight of the Horned Frogs first 11 victories came in come-from-behind fashion, three of which were reverse sweeps. The Horned Frogs are 6-0 in five-set affairs.
- Williams' debut schedule undoubtedly leant an assist to TCU's RPI and postseason prospects. TCU played 17 of its 25 matches against teams ranked in both the top-100 of the AVCA Division I Ranked Teams List and NCAA RPI.
- The Horned Frogs arrive in the Badger State having won four of their last five road contests.
- Audrey Nalls has led TCU in kills in 17 of its last 19 outings. TCU is 7-1 when the 6-2 outside hitter exceeds 20 kills. She concluded Big 12 play as the conference's leader in kills (266), kills per set (4.36), points (293) and points per set (4.80).
- TCU switched to a 5-1 rotation and inserted Sabrina Sustala at libero ahead of its match vs. Iowa State on Sept. 24. TCU went on to win 11 of its final 14 matches following the schematic and personnel change.
- Callie Williams leads TCU with 12 double-doubles. TCU is 10-2 when she posts a double-double and 11-1 when she dishes out 40-plus assists.
Audrey Nalls
- All-Big-12 first team selection
- Averaged 17.7 kills per match in Big 12 play
- Nine kills shy of becoming the first Horned Frog in TCU's Big 12 era to reach 400 kills in a season
- Four-time Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week; Sept. 19-25, Oct. 3-9, Nov. 7-13 and Nov. 21-27
- All-Big 12 first team selection; first setter in school history to receive postseason All-Big-12 honors
- Leads TCU in double-doubles, assists and digs
- Second in Big 12 play in total assists (623)
- Averaged 41.8 assists per match in Big 12 play
- Named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for Oct. 31-Nov. 6; 60 assists at Texas Tech (Nov. 5)
- TCU last won 16-or-more matches in 2015 - the year of the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance as a Big 12 institution
- The Horned Frogs won 21-of-30 sets inside Schollmaier Arena in conference play
- TCU has won four of its last five contests away from home.
- The Horned Frogs were victorious in sets one and three in all five of their November matches. TCU emerged victorious in
- Oddly enough, TCU was just 2-13 in set two in Big 12 play
- TCU is 14-2 when landing at least 50 kills.
- The Horned Frogs notched their first five-game Big 12 winning streak since 2015 with consecutive victories over Texas Tech, No. 10 Baylor, West Virginia, K-State and Oklahoma from Nov. 5-26.
- TCU was 7-1 in Big 12 action when landing 53-or-more kills and assists apiece. The Horned Frogs met or eclipsed the threshold in six of their seven Big 12 home matches.
- TCU out-landed opponents in points, kills and assists in nine of its 11 Big 12 wins.
- Freshman Jalyn Gibson has started seven of TCU's last eight matches at outside hitter, helping TCU to a 7-1 record in that span. She fueled a reverse sweep of Kansas on Oct. 26 behind a career-high 15 kills on .367 hitting. Gibson laced home 12 kills against a .391 hitting clip in TCU's four-set win at Texas Tech on Nov. 5. The San Antonio native chipped in nine kills on .316 hitting in TCU's upset of No. 10 Baylor on Nov. 12. She is averaging nine kills per match since entering the starting rotation.
- TCU jumped from No. 81 to No. 39 in the NCAA RPI since the first set of rankings was unveiled on Oct. 3. The Horned Frogs have played seven matches against five teams who cracked the top-70 of latest set of rankings - three of whom who have been featured in the top-10 for multiple weeks - and own five wins over teams who have been ranked in the top-50 (Baylor, Kansas, Iowa State, Texas Tech x2). Seven of the Horned Frogs' last nine wins have come against teams featured in the top-80 of the rankings.
- TCU is 8-1 when out-blocking opponents this season
- The Horned Frogs are 11-3 since pivoting to a 5-1 rotation and inserting Sabrina Sustala at libero on Sept. 24
- TCU is 7-1 when Audrey Nalls exceeds 20 kills
- TCU won seven straight home matches and nine-of-10 inside Schollmaier Arena dating back to Sept. 16
- TCU is 3-0 when Zoe Hall lands at least 10 kills
- Julia Adams has connected at-or-above a .300 hitting clip on 11 occasions thus far. The Horned Frogs are 8-3 overall and 6-2 in conference play when Adams hits above .300 and lands at least 10 kills.
- The Horned Frogs have won 12-of-16 matches in which they have landed at least five service aces
- The Horned Frogs held teams under .250 hitting in 12 of their 15 Big 12 contests (excludes Texas forfeit on Nov. 2)
- Eight of the Horned Frogs' 16 wins have come when Mykayla Myers hits at-or-above .350
- The Horned Frogs put together six 7-0 runs this season (vs. ISU, at K-State x2, vs. OU, at Texas Tech, at OU). TCU won all five matches.
Past Postseason Experience on the Frogs Roster
Eighteen of the 19 players listed on TCU's roster are making their NCAA Tournament debuts, although the cupboard is far from bare in terms of postseason familiarity:
- Head coach Jason Williams guided Baylor to six consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances as an assistant coach from 2016-2021, including a Final Four run in 2019.
- Callie Williams was a member of four NCAA Tournament teams between stops at Tennessee (2017-2018) and Baylor (2019-2021).
- Sabrina Sustala helped Texas A&M reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament as a freshman in 2019. Coincidentally, the Aggies fell to Wisconsin in Madison.
- Mykayla Myers was a freshman on Washington State's 2019 NCAA Tournament team, the program's fourth-of-seven straight teams to reach the Big Dance.
- Four seniors on TCU's roster - Julia Adams, Afedo Manyang, Audrey Nalls and McKenzie Nichols - played in the 2019 National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) as freshmen.
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