| WKU Volleyball vs. UTEP | |
| Date | Saturday, November 14 |
| Location | Bowling Green, Ky. I E.A. Diddle Arena |
| Tickets | WKU Ticket Office |
| Promotions | WHITE OUT | Senior Day |
| Video | WKUSports.tv |
| Live Stats | |
| Match Notes | WKU Match Notes |
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- After clinching at least a share of the 2015 Conference USA regular season championship Thursday evening with a straight-set victory over Marshall, No. 24 WKU volleyball will look to capture the program's first outright title with a noon CT. match against UTEP Saturday afternoon in E.A. Diddle Arena.
WKU's bout with the Miners will be WKU's Senior Day as the outstanding veteran group of Noelle Langenkamp, Haley Bodway and Rachel Engle will be honored in a ceremony five minutes prior to first serve.
In their four years on The Hill, the trio have led WKU to an outstanding 117-19 overall record including a 51-3 mark in matches played in Diddle Arena. The trio spent their first two years at WKU as a member of the Sun Belt Conference and their final two seasons in Conference USA. Overall, the group has helped WKU achieve a combined record of 61-3 in conference matches. The three have led WKU to conference regular season championships in all four years and have an opportunity to guide the Lady Topper program to its first outright C-USA regular season championship with a victory over UTEP Sat-urday. As a class, Langenankamp, Bodway and Engel have helped lead WKU to two 30-win seasons and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances.
WKU comes into Saturday's match on a four-match winning streak as the Lady Toppers responded to dropping their first C-USA contest of the year, a five-set thriller to Rice, with four consecutive sweeps. On the year, 18 of WKU's nationally best 27 victories have come in straight sets.
Saturday's match with UTEP will be the second meeting between the two teams on the year as WKU travelled to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, November 1, and earned a straight-set victory over the Miners. Bodway led the way for the Lady Tops as the senior recorded her 1,000th career kill as the outside hitter finished with a match-high 12 off .556 hitting.
WKU (27-3, 14-1 C-USA) has secured the No. 1 seed in next weekend's Conference USA Tournament hosted by UTSA in San Antonio, Texas. The tournament is slated to begin on Friday, November 20, and last through Sunday.
Saturday's match will also be a White Out as the first 150 fans will receive a FREE Fandanna.
Follow Along: Live stats and subscription-based video via WKUSports.tv will be available for Satur-day's contest with the Miners. Fans are also encouraged to follow in-match updates via the WKU Vol-leyball Twitter account @WKUVolleyball.
-WKU NOTES-
LAST TIME OUT
The 24th-ranked WKU volleyball team recorded their fourth consecutive sweep and earned at least a share of the Conference USA regular season championship for the second consecutive season with a straight-set victory over Marshall (25-17, 25-13, 25-21) in E.A. Diddle Arena.
Senior Noelle Langenkamp led WKU's offensive attack as the Lady Toppers laid down 42 total kills and finished with a .382 team-hitting percentage on the evening. The senior tied a match-high with 12 kills off .417 hitting while setter Jessica Lucas added eight kills on match-high .615 hitting and also adding 30 assists and eight digs. Rachel Anderson and Alyssa Cavanaugh added five kills a piece for WKU while senior Haley Bodway finished with four.
AN UPDATE ON UTEP
UTEP (9-21, 3-12 C-USA) comes into Saturday's match with the Lady Toppers having won two of the last three matches. This past Thursday, the Miners travelled to Houston, Texas, and dropped a five-set decision to Rice. Prior to the setback against the Owls, UTEP had won back-to-back matches for only the second time on the year after home victories over Conference USA-foes UAB (3-1) and LA Tech (3-0). Saturday's contest in Diddle will mark the Miners final match of the year as UTEP has been eliminated from participation in the C-USA Tournament.
Offensively, UTEP is hitting .159 on the year led by senior Talia Jones who has recorded team-high of 312 total kills on the year. Middle blocker Kyle Baumgartner is the Miners most accurate hitter with a current .203 attack percentage as the redshirt freshman has laid down 155 kills on 474 attacks. Setter Lindsey Larson leads the team with 1,017 assists, good for an 8.84 assist per set average. The junior also leads the team at the service line, recording a team-high 32 aces on the year.
Defensively, UTEP is allowing its opponents a .206 hitting percentage led by Larson's 357 total digs. Senior Ashley Peak has also chipped in 328 digs on the year. At the net, Baumgartner leads the Miners with an average of 1.14 blocks per set.
FIVE IN A ROW
WKU clinched its fifth regular season conference championship in a row Thursday after a 3-0 victory over Marshall. Under Travis Hudson's guidance, WKU has now won 12 regular season conference titles.
