Volleyball Hits the Road for Two Matches

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane University volleyball team will hit the road later this week for a pair of weekend matchups. Tulane will face Tulsa on Friday evening before heading to Kansas for a midday match against Wichita State on Sunday. The Green Wave head into the week's games after a victorious fifth win in a row against Temple on Sunday.

THIS WEEK'S MATCHUPS
Tulane Volleyball vs. Tulsa
Tulane: 14-10 | Tulsa: 12-9
Friday, Nov. 5 – 7 p.m. CT
Reynolds Center | Tulsa, Okla.

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Friday's match will be the Olive and Blue's second time meeting Tulsa this season. The teams faced off in September where Tulane shut out the Hurricanes in three sets. If the Green Wave sees a victory on Friday, it will be their fifth consecutive win against Tulsa.

Tulane Volleyball vs. Wichita State
Tulane:  14-10 | Wichita: 14-7
Sunday, Nov. 7 – 12 p.m. CT
Charles Koch Arena | Wichita, Kansas

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Tulane will be looking for a fourth straight win against Wichita on Sunday, after their September matchup resulted in a 3-1 Green Wave victory. This match will mark the first time that the Tulane team has travelled to Kansas to play against Wichita State since 2019

RANKINGS
Tulane was picked fourth in the 2021 American Athletic Conference Volleyball Preseason Poll, returning nearly the entire roster from the spring 2021 season. Tulsa and Wichita saw back-to-back selections for 9th and 8th respectively. After nine weeks of play, Tulane sits with Tulsa in a two-way tie for fourth in the AAC at 7-5. Wichita State is one of three teams tied for third at 8-4.

AWARDS
The Green Wave picked up two preseason all-conference team selections in seniors Lexie Douglas and Kayla Dinkins. Tulane has also earned four AAC weekly honor roll selections in Michelle Urquhart, Anna Davis, Douglas, Dinkins and Mackenzie Martin. Douglas captured her third honor selection with her performance last week against Houston and Temple. The outside hitter 42 kills averaging 4.67 a set while hitting a staggering .434, she is responsible for one-third of all Tulane's points on the week.

Quick Hits
·       Tulane owns the AAC's second best hitting percentage at .243 only .028 behind second place UCF.
·       Tulane is in the top five in the AAC leaderboard for kills and aces.
·       Tulane holds three places on the AAC's top 20 leaderboard in hitting percentage in Davis, Dinkins and Burcescu.
·       Dinkins sits at fifth in school history in block assists.
·       Douglas is 40 kills from breaking into the top five in career kills at Tulane.
·       Douglas was one of five unanimous preseason selections across the conference.
·      Taylor Henigsman  leads the Green Wave with six double doubles this season, Urquhart follows closely with four.
·       Henigsman is leads in the AAC in assists per set this season averaging 10.19 assists a set.
·      Douglas is tenth in the AAC in kills, averaging 3.03 a set.
·      Douglas is ninth in the AAC in points, averaging 3.53 a set.
·       Henigsman is seventh in program history in assists at 2,342.
·       Earlier in the season, Martin broke the program record for most digs in a single match, 41.

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