Friday, December 6
Omaha, Neb.
7:00 PM
Creighton University
31-2,18-0Big East
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Ole Miss vs. Creighton (Second Round)
18-12,7-9SEC
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Ole Miss
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Creighton
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Photo by: Creighton Athletics
Record Crowd Watches #6 Volleyball Punch Sweet 16 Ticket
12/6/2024 8:43:00 PM | Volleyball
Bluejays improve to 31-2
OMAHA, Neb. -- The second-seeded and sixth-ranked Creighton Volleyball team punched a ticket back to the Sweet 16 with a hard-fought 3-0 win over Ole Miss on Friday night before a D.J. Sokol Arena record crowd of 2,665.
The first two sets featured 32 ties and 14 lead changes as CU won a pair of deuce battles 28-26 and 27-25 before CU opened the third set with a 15-1 lead and won 25-7.
Creighton (31-2) set a program record with its 24th straight win and tied another with its 31st victory of the season. Ole Miss, which won its first NCAA Tournament match in program history last night, ends its season 18-12. CU will next face two-time defending national champion Texas next weekend at a day, time, site and location to be determined.
Creighton won an absolute slugfest in the first set, 28-26, as both teams saved set points before the Bluejays ultimately prevailed. After CU squandered a 24-22 lead, Ole Miss won a reversal to prolong the set and create a set point opportunity of its own at 25-24. An Ava Martin kill tied the score before teams traded sideouts. Tied at 26, Norah Sis gave CU a 27-26 advantage and Jaya Johnson and BIG EAST block leader Kiara Reinhardt combined to stuff Ole Miss attacker Nia Washington and give the overflow crowd at D.J. Sokol Arena a deep sigh of relief.
Sis and Elise Goetzinger each had five kills for CU in the first frame, with Kendra Wait dishing a dozen assists and Reinhardt providing a pair of blocks. Ole Miss was led by five kills from Emma Ammerman and three stuffs by Washington.
The second set was equally intense with 15 ties and six more lead changes. Ole Miss led 21-20 but the Bluejays regained the lead with kills by Wait and Goetzinger. Knotted at 25-all, Sis put down her eighth kill of the night and followed with a service ace down the sideline to send CU into the intermission with a 2-0 lead. Five different Bluejays contributed three or more kills in the game, while Sis had a pair of aces as well as three digs.
The Bluejays kept things rolling in the third set, using a 13-0 run on Martin's serve to take a commanding 15-1 lead. Four different Bluejays recorded at least one kill, while Martin served up a pair of aces during the surge. CU's lead grew to 22-6 on back-to-back kills from Martin before kills from Sis and Wait closed out the victory. Creighton hit a blistering .583 with 14 errorless kills, while recording three blocks and holding Ole Miss to -.080 hitting in the third set. Wait, the two-time BIG EAST Player and Setter of the Year, capped off the victory with a kill on match point.
Goetzinger led all-players with 12 kills on .556 hitting, while Martin closed the match with 11 kills and Sis contributed 10 kills and a team-high 12 digs of her own. Wait nearly finished with a triple-double for the second night in a row, finishing with 35 assists, eight kills and eight digs on .889 hitting. Creighton had 47 kills, six aces, 36 digs and seven blocks on .350 hitting.
Ole Miss got a team-high 11 kills from Washington, a 30 assist and 10 dig double-double from Mokihana Tufono and 10 digs from Cammy Niesen in the loss. The Rebels closed the match with 36 kills, three aces, 32 digs and seven blocks on .178 hitting.Â
Times, broadcast information and a site location for next week's Regional Semifinal match against the Longhorns will be finalized on late Saturday night or Sunday.
NOTES: The crowd of 2,665 was 12 more than the previous arena record of 2,653 set in 2022 when Creighton hosted Auburn in the NCAA Tournament ... Kendra Wait played in her D.J. Sokol Arena record 60th match ... Each of the last five matches for Ole Miss had been five set contests ... Creighton has now won 46 straight matches when winning the first set ...
Ava Martin had 10 or more kills for the 16th straight match ... Creighton clinched its fourth trip to the Sweet 16, and second consecutive. CU has now made it in 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024 ... Creighton's 31 victories tie a program record also done in 2021. That 2021 team's 31st victory also came against Ole Miss in Omaha during the NCAA Tournament ... Creighton set a program-record with its 24th consecutive win, breaking a streak first done by its 2016 Elite Eight squad. The 24 straight wins is the nation's longest active streak ... Creighton is now 3-0 all-time against Ole Miss with three sweeps, including a 2-0 mark in the NCAA Tournament ... Creighton is now 19-0 at home this season, extending a program-record for home wins in a season. CU's 32 straight wins is also a school-record and tied for the nation's second-longest active streak behind Nebraska ... Creighton improved to 16-13 all-time in the NCAA Tournament (7-4 at home) and 4-7 in the Second Round ... Creighton is now 118-16 in the last four seasons ... The seven points allowed was the fewest ever by CU in a NCAA Tournament set ... Creighton has won 48 straight matches to last three or four sets ... Creighton has won 176 straight sets when owning a set point ... The first set was the third time this season CU has won a set after surviving an opponent's set point.
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The first two sets featured 32 ties and 14 lead changes as CU won a pair of deuce battles 28-26 and 27-25 before CU opened the third set with a 15-1 lead and won 25-7.
Creighton (31-2) set a program record with its 24th straight win and tied another with its 31st victory of the season. Ole Miss, which won its first NCAA Tournament match in program history last night, ends its season 18-12. CU will next face two-time defending national champion Texas next weekend at a day, time, site and location to be determined.
Creighton won an absolute slugfest in the first set, 28-26, as both teams saved set points before the Bluejays ultimately prevailed. After CU squandered a 24-22 lead, Ole Miss won a reversal to prolong the set and create a set point opportunity of its own at 25-24. An Ava Martin kill tied the score before teams traded sideouts. Tied at 26, Norah Sis gave CU a 27-26 advantage and Jaya Johnson and BIG EAST block leader Kiara Reinhardt combined to stuff Ole Miss attacker Nia Washington and give the overflow crowd at D.J. Sokol Arena a deep sigh of relief.
Sis and Elise Goetzinger each had five kills for CU in the first frame, with Kendra Wait dishing a dozen assists and Reinhardt providing a pair of blocks. Ole Miss was led by five kills from Emma Ammerman and three stuffs by Washington.
The second set was equally intense with 15 ties and six more lead changes. Ole Miss led 21-20 but the Bluejays regained the lead with kills by Wait and Goetzinger. Knotted at 25-all, Sis put down her eighth kill of the night and followed with a service ace down the sideline to send CU into the intermission with a 2-0 lead. Five different Bluejays contributed three or more kills in the game, while Sis had a pair of aces as well as three digs.
The Bluejays kept things rolling in the third set, using a 13-0 run on Martin's serve to take a commanding 15-1 lead. Four different Bluejays recorded at least one kill, while Martin served up a pair of aces during the surge. CU's lead grew to 22-6 on back-to-back kills from Martin before kills from Sis and Wait closed out the victory. Creighton hit a blistering .583 with 14 errorless kills, while recording three blocks and holding Ole Miss to -.080 hitting in the third set. Wait, the two-time BIG EAST Player and Setter of the Year, capped off the victory with a kill on match point.
Goetzinger led all-players with 12 kills on .556 hitting, while Martin closed the match with 11 kills and Sis contributed 10 kills and a team-high 12 digs of her own. Wait nearly finished with a triple-double for the second night in a row, finishing with 35 assists, eight kills and eight digs on .889 hitting. Creighton had 47 kills, six aces, 36 digs and seven blocks on .350 hitting.
Ole Miss got a team-high 11 kills from Washington, a 30 assist and 10 dig double-double from Mokihana Tufono and 10 digs from Cammy Niesen in the loss. The Rebels closed the match with 36 kills, three aces, 32 digs and seven blocks on .178 hitting.Â
Times, broadcast information and a site location for next week's Regional Semifinal match against the Longhorns will be finalized on late Saturday night or Sunday.
NOTES: The crowd of 2,665 was 12 more than the previous arena record of 2,653 set in 2022 when Creighton hosted Auburn in the NCAA Tournament ... Kendra Wait played in her D.J. Sokol Arena record 60th match ... Each of the last five matches for Ole Miss had been five set contests ... Creighton has now won 46 straight matches when winning the first set ...
Ava Martin had 10 or more kills for the 16th straight match ... Creighton clinched its fourth trip to the Sweet 16, and second consecutive. CU has now made it in 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024 ... Creighton's 31 victories tie a program record also done in 2021. That 2021 team's 31st victory also came against Ole Miss in Omaha during the NCAA Tournament ... Creighton set a program-record with its 24th consecutive win, breaking a streak first done by its 2016 Elite Eight squad. The 24 straight wins is the nation's longest active streak ... Creighton is now 3-0 all-time against Ole Miss with three sweeps, including a 2-0 mark in the NCAA Tournament ... Creighton is now 19-0 at home this season, extending a program-record for home wins in a season. CU's 32 straight wins is also a school-record and tied for the nation's second-longest active streak behind Nebraska ... Creighton improved to 16-13 all-time in the NCAA Tournament (7-4 at home) and 4-7 in the Second Round ... Creighton is now 118-16 in the last four seasons ... The seven points allowed was the fewest ever by CU in a NCAA Tournament set ... Creighton has won 48 straight matches to last three or four sets ... Creighton has won 176 straight sets when owning a set point ... The first set was the third time this season CU has won a set after surviving an opponent's set point.
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Team Stats
UM
CU
Kills
36
47
Errors
18
12
Attempts
101
100
Hitting %
.178
.350
Points
47.0
60.0
Assists
34
42
Aces
3
6
Blocks
8
7
Game Leaders
Kills-Aces-Blocks
Kills
12
Aces
0
Blocks
3
Kills
11
Aces
2
Blocks
0
Kills
8
Aces
0
Blocks
2
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