N ° 13 Women’s volleyball set for the state match with n ° 5 Pitt at REC Hall – Penn State
University Park, PA.- Penn State women’s volleyball n ° 13 is expected to host the 54th edition of the state match with Pitt n ° 5 when the panthers come to Hall on Wednesday. The match is scheduled for 7 p.m. and will be broadcast live on the B1G network.
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How to follow
Wednesday September 17 | 7 p.m.
N ° 5 Pitt (7-2) at n ° 13 Penn State (4-3) | Live statistics | B1G network
Opening notes
• Penn State continues his long Homesand with a match without conference against n ° 5 of Pittsburgh on Wednesday. This is the fourth of the nine consecutive home games for the Nittany Lions.
• The Nittany Lions are 50-6 at REC Hall in the four seasons of Katie Schumacher-Cawley as a chief trainer. They went a perfect 20-0 at home last season.
• Penn State has an average of 4,320 fans in its first three home games – against Kentucky, New Hampshire and Bucknell N ° 4.
Classified adversaries
• Penn State plays an opponent classified nationally for the sixth time in the first eight matches of the season.
Story History
• Penn State is 33-20 in the series of all time with Pitt. The teams played for the first time in 1977.
• Pitt won three of the last four games in the series after Penn State won 16 consecutive games from 1987 to 2017.
• Nittany Lions are 18-4 against the Panthers at REC Hall. Wednesday marks the first match between the REC Hall teams since 2019.
Pitt scouting
• Pitt is 7-2 in total. The Panthers abandoned their first two games of the season to the opponents classified nationally, but bounced with seven consecutive victories. The sequence included victories on TCU n ° 25, n ° 7 of Arizona State and Kentucky n ° 3.
• Panthers played in four national semi-finals of the consecutive NCAA.
• Jett the way to Pitt is the national player of the ruling year of the AVCA, the right junior side Olivia Babcock.
• The panthers were chosen first in the pre-season survey of ACC 2025. The Baire Bayless teammates, Ryla Jones and Bre Kelley joined Babcock in the All-ECC pre-season team.
Penn State against ACC
• Penn State is 116-42 of all time against current ACC members.
• The Nittany Lions played 15 of the 18 teams of the conference and have a record of victories against 14 of them. They are undefeated against eight ACC opponents, going a 39-0 handset against Cal, Clemson, Duke, NC State, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
• Penn State went 4-1 against ACC last season, including a 3-1 victory against Louisville to win the national championship.
Last time
• Penn State rested his top scorer (Kennedy Martin) But still managed to switch to a 3-0 (25-19, 25-10, 25-20) on Bucknell last week at REC Hall.
• First -year fresco outside Alexis Ewing obtained his start from the first career and came big, reaching 0.429 with a career summit of eight striking attacks and a career summit of five houses of houses.
• Addie Lyon Guided an effective offense in his third consecutive departure to Setter, accumulating 37 assists while the Nittany Lions hit 0.375 in a team. Jordan Hope Helped this cause with seven striking attacks on 0.750 strikes. Maggie Mendelson struck .471 with nine striking attacks. Emmi Sellman Driven all the players with 10 victims, while Caroline Jaurevicius contributed eight.
• Gillian Grimes helped hold the bison at 0.086 striking with its 14 excavations. She also had one of the five ace of the team. Lyon came with three aces.
Streaks to look
Gillian Grimes
3 consecutive games with at least one AS
Kennedy Martin
58 consecutive games with two -digit killed when you play at least three sets
3 consecutive games with at least one AS
REC Hall Streak
• The Nittany Lions have a long sequence of victories at Rec Hall, winning 24 consecutive games at home dating from the 2023 season. The last home loss of the Nittany Lions came to Nebraska on November 3, 2023.
National classification sequence
• Penn State was classified n ° 13 in the last AVCA survey.
• The Nittany Lions were classified in 554 consecutive surveys of the AVCA coaches, which dates back to the last survey of the 1988 season.
Win the first set
• Penn State won the first set in 1,419 of its 1,767 games of all time, or 80% of the time.
• Of these 1,419 matches in which the Nittany Lions won the first set, they won the match 1,327 times, or 94% of the time.
The next
• Penn State welcomes Princeton and Central Michigan for Le Penn State Classic from Friday to Sunday.
