Volleyball Starts Round Two of Conference Play

GAME NOTES

New Orleans - The Tulane University volleyball team will kick off round two of American Athletic Conference play with a midweek matchup against the University of Houston on Wednesday, before heading home to host Temple University on Sunday. The pair of matches come after back-to-back road matches against East Carolina and Cincinnati last week.

THIS WEEK'S MATCHUPS
Tulane Volleyball vs. Houston
Tulane: 13-9 / Houston: 17-5
Wednesday, Oct. 27 - 7 p.m. CT
Fertitta Center / Houston

Live Stats- Houston Watch- Houston

Wednesday's match up with Houston will be the second time the teams have met this season. In September, the Green Wave fell to the Cougars in four sets.

Tulane Volleyball vs. Temple
Tulane: 13-9 / Temple: 5-16
Sunday, Oct. 31 - 12 p.m. CT
Avron B. Fogelman Arena in the Devlin Fieldhouse / New Orleans

Live Stats- Temple Watch- Temple

The Green Wave will seek a fifth straight win against the Temple volleyball team this Sunday. The weekend match will be the second meeting between Tulane and Temple this season. The Olive and Blue beat the Owls in four last month.

RANKINGS
Tulane was picked fourth in the 2021 AAC Volleyball Preseason Poll, returning nearly the entire roster from the spring 2021 season. After the first round of play Tulane currently sits in a three-way tie for fifth in the AAC. Meanwhile Houston sits in a three-way tie for second at 7-3 and Temple is in 10^th with a 1-9 record.

AWARDS
The Green Wave picked up two preseason all-conference team selections in seniors Lexie Douglasand Kayla Dinkins. Tulane has also earned four AAC weekly honor roll selections in Michelle Urquhart, Anna Davis, Douglas (2), Dinkins and Mackenzie Martin.

Quick Hits

Tulane owns the AAC's third best hitting percentage at .248
Tulane holds four places on the AAC's top 20 leaderboard in hitting percentage in Davis, Dinkins, Douglas and Burcescu.
Dinkins sits at fifth in school history in block assists.
Douglas is 1 kill from breaking into the top five in career kills at Tulane. This will knock out Kim Sentmore and put her in fifth with 1,474 kills in her career.
Douglas surpassed 4,000 career attacks at Tulane in a matchup against Memphis earlier this month.
Douglas was one of five unanimous preseason selections across the conference.
Henigsman leads the Green Wave with five double doubles this season, Urquhart follows closely with four.
Henigsman is fourth in the AAC in assists per set this season averaging 10.59 assists a set.
Urquhart places in the AAC's top 10 leaderboard in aces per set at .35 and total aces with 33.
Douglas is sixth in the AAC in total kills averaging 3.54 per set.
Taylor Henigsman is eighth in program history in assists at 2,247.

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