Hoosiers Open Wilkinson Hall With Pair of Victories

Friday, August 30

Bloomington, Ind.

12:30 PM

Indiana University

3-1

Florida International

0-3

FIU

Indiana

Hoosiers Open Wilkinson Hall With Pair of Victories

8/30/2019 11:43:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana volleyball team opened their new arena, Wilkinson Hall, with victories over FIU and Marshall on day one of the Indiana Invitational on Friday.

The Hoosiers started the day with a 3-1 (24-26, 25-14, 25-12, 25-16) victory over FIU and finished the night with a 3-1 (25-13, 25-21, 20-25, 25-17) win over Marshall.

Key Moments

In the opening match of the day against Florida International, the Hoosiers dropped the first set 26-24, but responded to win the next three sets, outscoring FIU 75-42 over those three sets.
The Hoosiers got off to a strong start with a 6-0 lead in the first set against Marshall.
After dropping the third set to Marshall, the Hoosiers scored 11 of the first 17 points of the fourth set.
Marshall cut the Hoosiers lead to four at 18-14 in the fourth set, but the Hoosiers scored the next four points with an ace by Haley Armstrong and a kill by Breanna Edwards to increase their lead to 22-14.

Notables

The Hoosiers improved to 2-0 on the opening day of the 2019 season.
Senior Deyshia Lofton moved into the top 10 in IU's history when it comes to career blocks. Lofton tallied 11 blocks on the day, bringing her career total to 316.
In her first match back after having her 2018 season cut short due to injury, redshirt senior Kendall Beerman tallied 17 kills and hit .536.
Sophomore Breanna Edwards eclipsed her previous career high in kills (23) as she recorded 24 kills in the Hoosiers win against FIU.
Freshman Haley Armstrong got the start for the Hoosiers at libero and recorded 40 combined digs over the two matches.
The attendance for the night match against Marshall was 1,812, up from the Hoosier's average attendance record of 1,273 in the 2018 season.

Up Next
Next up the Hoosiers host UT Martin at 10am on Saturday, August 31. They will also host Santa Clara at 8pm that same day.

Indiana Head Coach Steve Aird
"Overall, it's been a good day, any time you can start with a couple wins at home. It's a fantastic start to the season. Unbelievable atmosphere tonight, we couldn't be more grateful for the Wilkinson's and IU folks who supported this project, this building, seeing it through to playing a match and the energy in here was unbelievable. Shout out to IU swimming and diving for being amazing, our student section was good. Our marketing did a fantastic job. The environment tonight was fun. It was definitely a step in the right direction to what we need it to be, to make it a tough place to play in the Big Ten.

As far as the match, I tip my cap to Marshall. We played hard, I thought they didn't give up after being handled pretty easily in the first two games. They compete like crazy. And as a first-year coach he is doing a great job with that program. Much respect for how they went about their business. I thought the key in the third game was that the serving and passing got weird for us. We got a little squirrely, then we settled down a little bit. Much like this morning where we were trying to figure some stuff then it got a little bit more clean. We played pretty good clean volleyball. No rest for the weary, we got a 10 a.m. match tomorrow and a big one tomorrow night at 8pm. For me it's 2-0 and a million lessons to take from this, but thrilled by the IU community, everyone came out to support us. It was a very cool match in Wilkinson Hall."