University of Minnesota Athletics
Florida State-Kentucky Post-match Notes
12/12/2009 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
#12 Florida State 3, #13 Kentucky 2
Dec. 11, 2009 - Sports Pavilion - Minneapolis, Minn.
Match Notes
- Fourth straight NCAA Regional match hosted by Minnesota to go to five sets, as all three matches in 2004 went the distance
- Also in 1993, Minnesota hosted Notre Dame in a five-set regional in Williams Arena
- Florida State advances to the Elite Eight and will play the winner of Colorado State-Minnesota on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Sports Pavilion on the campus of the University of Minnesota
Kentucky Notes
- Making its fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and 11th overall
- Fifth Sweet Sixteen appearance
- 10-11 all-time at the NCAA Tournament
- Loss snapped a two-match winning streak, and is first since Nov. 25
- Loss in the second set snapped a seven set winning streak
- 3-2 against ranked teams this season
- Fall to 13-1 on Friday
- Fall to 25-1 when winning first set
- 5-5 all-time against Florida State
- Only 17 matches have went over three sets
- With her seventh dig of the match, BriAnne Sauer sets the UK record for digs in a season, she finishes the match with 23 and 580 on the season
- Kentucky has never won three straight tournament games
- Sarah Mendoza tallied double-digit kills for the 33rd time on the season and 65th in her career, finishing with 19 on the day
- Mendoza passed the 300-dig mark on the season finishing with 311 after today
- Mendoza's double-double is the 15th of the season and 29th of her career
- Second set was just the ninth set of the season to go past regulation, leaving the Wildcats a 4-5 mark in those sets
- 2-5 after being down 1-2 after three sets
- Sarah Rumely has notched 30+ assists in every match this season, topped 40 for the 19t time, and bettered 50 for the ninth time adding 63 today
- Rumely has tallied 40+ assists in five straight matches
- 4-3 in five set matches
- 0-3 in fifth sets that go past regulation
Florida State Notes
- First appearance in the Elite Eight in program history
- 12th NCAA appearance with a 4-10 record in the tournament
- On a 19-match winning streak
- Last loss was on Oct. 2
- 6-0 at neutral sites on the season
- Loss in the first set snapped a nine-set winning streak
- 16 points in first set is lowest single set score of the season
- 5-5 all-time against Kentucky
- Both losses have come in five sets
- Have not been down 0-2 in a match all season and move to 7-0 in the second set, after losing the first set
- 6-1 match record after losing the first set
- Mira Djuric surpassed the 300-kill mark on the season, with 13 in the match, finishing with 309 on the da
- Second set was just the 13th set of the season to go past regulation, leaving the Seminoles a 9-4 mark in those sets
- 10-1 when up 2-1 after three sets, with five wins coming in five sets
- 7-2 in five set matches
- Rachel Morgan's 15 kills are just two shy of a career high
- Fifth set was fourth of the season to go past regulation, Seminoles are 2-2 in such sets
