PULLMAN, Wash. — 11^th-ranked Washington State volleyball (9-1) will look to extend on its eight-match winning streak Friday night as it gets set to visit defending national champions, sixth-ranked Texas (5-2) from Gregory Gymnasium in Austin, Texas, beginning at 5 p.m. PST.  Friday night's match will be broadcast live on Longhorn Network (ESPN +) as the Cougars get set to search to claim a third-consecutive top-25 win and a second win in a row against teams ranked in the nation's top-10 after a four-set win over eighth-ranked BYU a week ago.

Match Notes (PDF)
Match Info: at No. 6 Texas (5-2, 0-0 Big XII)
DATE:  Fri., Sept. 15  //  First serve: 7 p.m. (CST)/ 5 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: Austin, Texas  //  Gregory Gymnasium
OPP STREAK:  Won 3
OPP LAST THREE:  3-0 vs Fla. Gulf Coast  //  3-0 vs Rice  //  3-0 vs No. 19 Ohio State
TV: Longhorn Network (ESPN +)
RADIO: 1150 AM/ Pullman Radio KQQQ

Series History:
>> Overall: Texas leads 1-0
>> In Austin: Texas leads 1-0
>> Texas won the only matchup between the two schools in a 3-0 win for the 10th-ranked Longhorns in 1992.
>> The 1992 Washington State Cougars, led by Head Coach Cindy Fredrick, finished the season 27-10 overall, following up the late-season loss to No. 10 Texas with six straight wins to close out the season in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship in Kansas City.

WSU Match Notes:
>> 11th-ranked Washington State picked up its second-consecutive top-25 win Wednesday night in a 3-1 win at 18th-ranked Baylor.  The two wins are the first back-to-back wins over the AVCA Top-25 for the Cougs since winning back-to-back top-25 matchups (vs No. 24 Colorado, vs. No. 6 Washington) to open Pac-12 play in 2021.
>> A win on Friday at Texas would be the first three-match winning streak over the AVCA Top-25 for the Cougs since 2018. WSU defeated No. 25 Utah, No. 23 Colorado, and No. 21 Arizona, back in 2018 — a Cougar team that finished the season with a run to the NCAA Sweet 16.
>> Washington State's last back-to-back road top-25 wins fell early on in the 2018 season as it defeated 17th-ranked Northern Iowa in two consecutive road contests on the opening weekend of the 2018 season in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
>> Washington State will also have a shot at a second-consecutive AVCA Top-10 win, having taken out eighth-ranked BYU last Friday night in Bohler Gym.  Washington State's last back-to-back top-10 wins came during a stretch that included three straight wins over No. 4 Washington in four sets, No. 9 UCLA in five sets, and No. 9 Stanford in five sets, to open the 2016 Pac-12 schedule.
>> A ninth consecutive victory for the Cougs would be the longest winning streak since a stretch of 11 consecutive wins back in the first half of the 2019 season.
>> With a .328 hitting percentage, Washington State volleyball ranks 16th in the NCAA and first in the Pac-12 as a team.
>> The 2022 Cougars finished the season ranked 16th in the NCAA at .280 as a team, a best final ranking in team attack percentage under coach Greeny and the second-highest single-season attack percentage in WSU history.
>> WSU's .506 attack percentage vs. Tulsa was the highest of any Pac-12 team over an opponent so far this season and the ninth-highest in the nation this season.
>> WSU has tied the program record for aces in a 3-set match in each of the past two seasons.  The Cougars dropped in 14 aces vs. FDU at the 2022 Fairfield Invitational and had 14 aces in its 2023 home opener against Northwestern State.
>> Setter Argentina Ung ranks 16th in the NCAA and third in the Pac-12 with 10.97 assists/set, while Magda Jehlářová is first in the Pac-12 and 16th in the NCAA with a .467 hitting percentage so far this season.
>> Jehlářová is the Washington State all-time leader and seventh in Pac-12 history in career hitting percentage at .378.  She is the Pac-12's active leader and Washington State's all-time leader with 640 career blocks.
>> Iman Isanovic had a team-leading 16 kills with a .324 hitting percentage in Wednesday's win at Baylor.  With 122 kills and only 23 errors, Isanovic is hitting a .381 clip on the season, by far the most efficient in her five-year career.
>> Isanovic also eclipsed the 1,500 career kills mark on Wednesday night as she remains the Pac-12's active leader with 1,514 for her career.
>> Julia Norville and Karly Basham finished Wednesday's win at Baylor tied for the team lead with 15 digs apiece while also collecting a perfect 28-of-28 serves that went their direction on the Cougars' back row.
WASHINGTON STATE IN THE POLLS
>> Washington State jumped two more spots to No. 11 in the fourth AVCA Division I Top-25 Coaches' Poll of the season, the highest national ranking for the Cougars since reaching No. 10 in 2016.
>> Washington State was picked to finish second in the Preseason Pac-12 Conference Coaches' Poll, tying the highest ranking all-time for WSU in the annual preseason poll — WSU was also picked to finish runner-up in 1996.
>> WSU was voted No. 21 in the AVCA Preseason Top-25, the 11th time in the team's history and the third time under Head Coach Jen Greeny that WSU has cracked the preseason top-25.
>> Washington State has appeared in 180 AVCA Top-25 polls, finishing 13 seasons in the final top-25 poll.
>> WSU has cracked the top-10 in 31 polls with its highest all-time ranking coming in Oct. of 1995 when the Cougars reached No. 5 in the nation.

Up Next:
Next week marks the opening of conference play across the nation as Washington State will open the 2023 Pac-12 season on Thursday night when it hosts Apple Cup rival Washington on Thursday night beginning at 7 p.m. on Pac-12 Network.  The two teams split last season's rivalry series with the Cougs winning the final matchup, 3-0, on their home court to close out the 2022 regular season.  The Cougars will split its first weekend of conference play with a Sunday road trip to play at Arizona on Sun., Sept. 24, beginning at 1 p.m.

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