Indiana University Athletics
Wednesday, October 25
Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
8:00 PM
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Illinois
Volleyball Central: at Illinois
10/24/2023 9:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana Volleyball team (16-7, 6-4) begins a four-game road swing with a trip to Champaign to face Illinois in Huff Hall on Wednesday night (8:00 PM ET). The match will be broadcasted nationally on the Big Ten Network with Connor Onion and Liz Nelson on the call.
IU matched its best 10-game start to conference play after beating Ohio State in a five-set marathon last Saturday night. The Hoosiers have 10 games remaining in the regular season as they hunt for a NCAA Tournament bid for the first time since 2010.
The Hoosiers haven't won both contests over the Fighting Illini in the same season since 2000 and haven't won in Champaign since 2007. A win would hand IU its most wins in a season since 2016 (17).
Match Info
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 | at Illinois | 8:00 PM ET
TV: Big Ten Network
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 16-7 (6-4) heading into the weekend's competition. On the season, IU has quality wins at Miami (FL) and Maryland as well as beating No. 15 Purdue and (RV) Ohio State at home. All seven losses have come to teams who have top-60 RPI's including six of those matches away from home.
• IU tested itself early in the season with a trip to the Long Beach Invitational. A tough weekend at The Beach, which featured three defeats and eight of nine set loss by four of fewer points, was a strong litmus test for the Hoosiers in the early going of the season.
• With a straight sweep of opponents at the Stacheville Challenge and four wins at the 305 Challenge, IU won seven-straight contests heading into Big Ten play.
• The Hoosiers' only losses in the Big Ten have come at No. 1 Wisconsin, vs. No. 2 Nebraska, at No. 14 Penn State and at No. 19 Purdue. Those are currently the top four teams in the Big Ten.
• A victory over No. 15 Purdue (Oct. 11) was the fourth top-15 win of the Steve Aird era and the first in Wilkinson Hall (opened in 2019). IU's 6-4 start to conference play matched the program's best 10-game start to the Big Ten in school history.
The Hoosiers
• IU opened the season with its best 20-game start to a season (14-6) since beginning 15-5 in the 2010 campaign. The Hoosiers also began conference play 6-4 for the first time since 1985.
• The Hoosiers possess six conference wins already this season including sweeps of Iowa and Maryland and a four-set victory over Illinois and No. 15 Purdue.
• A perfect weekend in Miami at the end of the non-conference schedule ensured the Hoosiers 10 wins in the preseason for the first time since 2019. It is the fourth season since the turn of the century the program brought 10+ wins and at least one power five victory home out of the preseason.
• Head coach Steve Aird became the first coach in program history with multiple seasons of 10+ wins in non-conference with at least one true road win over Power Five team (2019 and 2023). IU's nine victories by sweep in the non-conference were the most since winning nine during the 2010 preseason.
• To follow up a strong end to the preseason slate, IU beat Illinois 3-1 at Wilkinson Hall to kick off the Big Ten season. The Hoosiers blocked the Illini 18 times with a career-high 12 stuffs from senior middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede. The victory was the final in a run of eight-straight wins, IU's longest winning streak since 2017.
• As a team, the Hoosiers are 1st in the Big Ten and 21st nationally with 1.91 aces per set. In total, IU has 155 aces on the season including 53 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 37th in the NCAA and 2nd in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 200.0 stuffs across the first 23 matches of the season. They average 2.47 per set.
• IU is holding opponents to just .179 hitting offensively which ranks fifth in the Big Ten and top-70 nationally among team defenses. As a team, IU is hitting .234 which is on pace to be one of the best marks in program history for a single season.
• The Hoosiers sold out matches vs. No. 2 Nebraska and No. 15 Purdue with the latter setting a new Wilkinson Hall Attendance Record of 2,725. IU is averaging 1,730 fans per game across nine home matches this season.
What's At Stake?
• The Hoosiers have never won three-straight contests in the series history.
• IU hasn't won in Champaign since 2007 (lost 14-straight road contests).
• The Hoosiers last swept the season series in 2000 against the Fighting Illini.
Player Watch
#10 Haworth, Camryn
• Haworth has built on an impressive 2022 season, continuing her fine form into 2023 as a junior and a team captain. She leads the conference in aces (53) and assists (794).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (53), assists (794), assists per set (9.80) and kills (69). She's also fifth in digs (169) and sixth in blocks (41.0).
• The Fishers, Ind. native became the 11th player in program history to record 2,000 assists, crossing the mark in a 33-assist effort against Jacksonville on September 16th. She is now No. 10 in program history with 2,409 assists.
• She is one of just 19 players in program history with 100 career aces and broke the program's rally-era record (in place since 2001) with aces 131 and 132 of her career against Nebraska. She is No. 4 all-time in program history and will challenge for the all-time mark of 197 in the next year.
• In her time at IU, she has three of the best five single-season aces performances in the rally-scoring era. She's got 53 aces on the season which broke IU's rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014. She is No. 14 in Big Ten history during the rally era in service aces with 144.
#15 Kjolhede, Savannah
• The Colleyville, Texas native was one of the Big Ten's best blockers last year and is 7th among active Big Ten players in blocks (334). She is now 10th all-time in blocks at IU and is the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform.
• The veteran middle has played in 103 games of her college career and has started 99 of those including all 18 during her freshman campaign which was shortened by COVID-19. The only games she missed was against Radford and Lindenwood in which she was a healthy, unused sub.
• Against Illinois on Sept. 20, she blocked a career-high 12 shots, becoming just the seventh player in program history with 12-or-more blocks in a single game. She passed 300 career blocks during the match and helped lead IU to 18 total team blocks in the dominant victory.
• She (.292) and graduate student middle blocker Kaley Rammelsberg (.321) are both among IU's all-time top five best hitters (with at least 1,000 career attempts). Only two athletes in program history have ever finished their careers with a hitting percentage of .300 or better. Both are on pace for some of the most efficient single-season hitting percentages in program history.
#32 Gary, Ramsey
• One of the top-rated prep liberos in the 2023 class, Gary has lived up to the billing early in her college career. She has 351 digs across 23 matches including six 20+ dig efforts in Big Ten play.
• Her 351 digs are most in the Big Ten and top five among freshmen nationally. She is averaging 4.33 digs per set on the season which leads the Big Ten and has 4.82 digs per set through 10 conference games.
• Her 26 digs in a win over Ohio State matched the single-game freshman digs record in program history. Her four-straight matches with 20+ digs matches the most by a single player at IU in the last 15 years.
• She will challenge both the freshman single-season digs record (402) and the all-time single season digs record (525) over the remaining regular season matches.
Opponent Breakdown: Illinois
Series History: 19-74-1 (Illinois leads) | Last Meeting: 9/20/23 (W, 3-1)
• The Hoosiers and Fighting Illini meet for the second time this season after IU won the conference opener 3-1 in September.
• Illinois has won three-straight matches with a pair of wins over Rutgers and one over Maryland.
• Raina Terry leads Illinois and the Big Ten with 355 kills including 4.80 per set.
• Brooke Mosher runs the offense and has dished out 670 assists on the season.
IU matched its best 10-game start to conference play after beating Ohio State in a five-set marathon last Saturday night. The Hoosiers have 10 games remaining in the regular season as they hunt for a NCAA Tournament bid for the first time since 2010.
The Hoosiers haven't won both contests over the Fighting Illini in the same season since 2000 and haven't won in Champaign since 2007. A win would hand IU its most wins in a season since 2016 (17).
Match Info
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 | at Illinois | 8:00 PM ET
TV: Big Ten Network
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 16-7 (6-4) heading into the weekend's competition. On the season, IU has quality wins at Miami (FL) and Maryland as well as beating No. 15 Purdue and (RV) Ohio State at home. All seven losses have come to teams who have top-60 RPI's including six of those matches away from home.
• IU tested itself early in the season with a trip to the Long Beach Invitational. A tough weekend at The Beach, which featured three defeats and eight of nine set loss by four of fewer points, was a strong litmus test for the Hoosiers in the early going of the season.
• With a straight sweep of opponents at the Stacheville Challenge and four wins at the 305 Challenge, IU won seven-straight contests heading into Big Ten play.
• The Hoosiers' only losses in the Big Ten have come at No. 1 Wisconsin, vs. No. 2 Nebraska, at No. 14 Penn State and at No. 19 Purdue. Those are currently the top four teams in the Big Ten.
• A victory over No. 15 Purdue (Oct. 11) was the fourth top-15 win of the Steve Aird era and the first in Wilkinson Hall (opened in 2019). IU's 6-4 start to conference play matched the program's best 10-game start to the Big Ten in school history.
The Hoosiers
• IU opened the season with its best 20-game start to a season (14-6) since beginning 15-5 in the 2010 campaign. The Hoosiers also began conference play 6-4 for the first time since 1985.
• The Hoosiers possess six conference wins already this season including sweeps of Iowa and Maryland and a four-set victory over Illinois and No. 15 Purdue.
• A perfect weekend in Miami at the end of the non-conference schedule ensured the Hoosiers 10 wins in the preseason for the first time since 2019. It is the fourth season since the turn of the century the program brought 10+ wins and at least one power five victory home out of the preseason.
• Head coach Steve Aird became the first coach in program history with multiple seasons of 10+ wins in non-conference with at least one true road win over Power Five team (2019 and 2023). IU's nine victories by sweep in the non-conference were the most since winning nine during the 2010 preseason.
• To follow up a strong end to the preseason slate, IU beat Illinois 3-1 at Wilkinson Hall to kick off the Big Ten season. The Hoosiers blocked the Illini 18 times with a career-high 12 stuffs from senior middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede. The victory was the final in a run of eight-straight wins, IU's longest winning streak since 2017.
• As a team, the Hoosiers are 1st in the Big Ten and 21st nationally with 1.91 aces per set. In total, IU has 155 aces on the season including 53 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 37th in the NCAA and 2nd in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 200.0 stuffs across the first 23 matches of the season. They average 2.47 per set.
• IU is holding opponents to just .179 hitting offensively which ranks fifth in the Big Ten and top-70 nationally among team defenses. As a team, IU is hitting .234 which is on pace to be one of the best marks in program history for a single season.
• The Hoosiers sold out matches vs. No. 2 Nebraska and No. 15 Purdue with the latter setting a new Wilkinson Hall Attendance Record of 2,725. IU is averaging 1,730 fans per game across nine home matches this season.
What's At Stake?
• The Hoosiers have never won three-straight contests in the series history.
• IU hasn't won in Champaign since 2007 (lost 14-straight road contests).
• The Hoosiers last swept the season series in 2000 against the Fighting Illini.
Player Watch
#10 Haworth, Camryn
• Haworth has built on an impressive 2022 season, continuing her fine form into 2023 as a junior and a team captain. She leads the conference in aces (53) and assists (794).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (53), assists (794), assists per set (9.80) and kills (69). She's also fifth in digs (169) and sixth in blocks (41.0).
• The Fishers, Ind. native became the 11th player in program history to record 2,000 assists, crossing the mark in a 33-assist effort against Jacksonville on September 16th. She is now No. 10 in program history with 2,409 assists.
• She is one of just 19 players in program history with 100 career aces and broke the program's rally-era record (in place since 2001) with aces 131 and 132 of her career against Nebraska. She is No. 4 all-time in program history and will challenge for the all-time mark of 197 in the next year.
• In her time at IU, she has three of the best five single-season aces performances in the rally-scoring era. She's got 53 aces on the season which broke IU's rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014. She is No. 14 in Big Ten history during the rally era in service aces with 144.
#15 Kjolhede, Savannah
• The Colleyville, Texas native was one of the Big Ten's best blockers last year and is 7th among active Big Ten players in blocks (334). She is now 10th all-time in blocks at IU and is the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform.
• The veteran middle has played in 103 games of her college career and has started 99 of those including all 18 during her freshman campaign which was shortened by COVID-19. The only games she missed was against Radford and Lindenwood in which she was a healthy, unused sub.
• Against Illinois on Sept. 20, she blocked a career-high 12 shots, becoming just the seventh player in program history with 12-or-more blocks in a single game. She passed 300 career blocks during the match and helped lead IU to 18 total team blocks in the dominant victory.
• She (.292) and graduate student middle blocker Kaley Rammelsberg (.321) are both among IU's all-time top five best hitters (with at least 1,000 career attempts). Only two athletes in program history have ever finished their careers with a hitting percentage of .300 or better. Both are on pace for some of the most efficient single-season hitting percentages in program history.
#32 Gary, Ramsey
• One of the top-rated prep liberos in the 2023 class, Gary has lived up to the billing early in her college career. She has 351 digs across 23 matches including six 20+ dig efforts in Big Ten play.
• Her 351 digs are most in the Big Ten and top five among freshmen nationally. She is averaging 4.33 digs per set on the season which leads the Big Ten and has 4.82 digs per set through 10 conference games.
• Her 26 digs in a win over Ohio State matched the single-game freshman digs record in program history. Her four-straight matches with 20+ digs matches the most by a single player at IU in the last 15 years.
• She will challenge both the freshman single-season digs record (402) and the all-time single season digs record (525) over the remaining regular season matches.
Opponent Breakdown: Illinois
Series History: 19-74-1 (Illinois leads) | Last Meeting: 9/20/23 (W, 3-1)
• The Hoosiers and Fighting Illini meet for the second time this season after IU won the conference opener 3-1 in September.
• Illinois has won three-straight matches with a pair of wins over Rutgers and one over Maryland.
• Raina Terry leads Illinois and the Big Ten with 355 kills including 4.80 per set.
• Brooke Mosher runs the offense and has dished out 670 assists on the season.
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