Aggies Travel to Take On Lipscomb, No. 6 Wisconsin

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Tournament Schedule:
Thursday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m.
#6 Wisconsin vs. Lipscomb

Friday, Sept. 8, 6 p.m.
Texas A&M vs. Lipscomb

Saturday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m.
Texas A&M vs. #6 Wisconsin

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Texas A&M (2-2) takes its first road trip of the season this weekend to take on Lipscomb (4-2) and No. 6 Wisconsin (5-0) at the HotelRed Invitational at the UW Field House in Madison, Wisconsin. The tournament opens Thursday with Lipscomb taking on the host Badgers at 7 p.m. The Aggies take the court Friday at 6 p.m. to face Lipscomb, which is receiving votes in the AVCA Top 25 Poll. A&M concludes the tournament on Saturday against Wisconsin at 7 p.m. The contest against the Badgers will mark the Aggies' third match against a top-six opponent in four matches.

After winning their season-opening Texas A&M Invitational with sweeps against both Sam Houston State and Virginia Commonwealth, the Aggies are coming off a weekend in which they pushed No. 5 Penn State to five sets before falling, 3-2, and then fell to defending national champion and then No. 1-ranked Stanford, 3-0, at the Aggie Classic at Reed Arena.

Lipscomb went 2-1 at the Ohio State Classic last weekend, posting 3-2 victories against both Oakland and Missouri State, which is receiving votes in the AVCA Top 25, and then falling to 20th-ranked Ohio State to conclude the tournament.

Wisconsin has yet to drop a set in its first five matches. The Badgers, who lead the nation in both hitting percentage (.393) and assists per set (14.87), most recently swept Syracuse, Arkansas and Kansas State to win the K-State Invitational last weekend in Manhattan, Kansas.

TEXAS A&M NOTES:

Sophomore outside hitter Hollann Hans leads A&M and the SEC and is seventh in the nation with 0.71 aces per set. She also leads A&M, is second in the SEC and 16th in the nation with 5.25 points per set, and she leads A&M, ranks third in the SEC and 39th in the nation with 4.29 kills per set.
Hans' 32.5 points against No. 5 Penn State ties for fourth in A&M single match records, and her 28 kills against the Nittany Lions are the most by an A&M player since Kelsey Black had 28 against Oklahoma on Oct. 6, 2010.
Freshman 6-1 lefty setter Camille Conner has started every match and played in every set this season and is averaging 9.07 assists per set while directing the Aggie offense to a .250 hitting efficiency. The MVP of the season-opening Texas A&M Invitational, Conner is the first and only player in the SEC and one of 10 in the nation to record a triple-double thus far this season, posting 43 assists, 12 digs and 12 kills while hitting .321 against No. 5 Penn State.
Freshman 6-3 middle blocker Makena Patterson has started every match and leads the Aggies with 1.17 blocks per set.
Texas A&M has had three freshmen in the starting lineup in each of the last three matches. In addition to Conner and Patterson starting every match, 6-2 rookie Samantha Sanders started each of the last three matches at the opposite hitter position.
Senior libero Amy Nettles, who ranks 13th in the A&M career records with 1,158 digs, needs only 14 digs to move into 12th place and 19 digs to climb into 11th place in the A&M career records. She will surpass Elizabeth Edmiston, who had 1,171 digs from 1989-92 and Margaret Spence, who had 1,176 digs from 1983-86.
Texas A&M will be playing its third match against a team ranked in the AVCA top six when the Aggies take on No. 6 Wisconsin on Saturday. A&M pushed No. 5 Penn State to five sets last Saturday and fell to No. 1 Stanford, 3-0, on Sunday. The last time A&M defeated a team ranked No. 6 or higher was Sept. 11, 2014, when the Aggies topped No. 6 Southern California, 3-2, at the USC Classic in Los Angeles.
Texas A&M, which plays host to No. 5 Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 13 at Reed Arena, is ranked No. 1 in the nation for strength of schedule in Volleytalk.net's RPI Futures Week as of Sept. 4. Wisconsin is No. 2.
Texas A&M returns 11 letterwinners overall—including four starters plus the libero—from last year's team that went 21-9 overall and reached the NCAA Championship tournament for a sixth consecutive season. The Aggies also welcome a stellar four-member freshman class, ranked the 18th best recruiting class in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com, as well as a redshirt freshman.

25th SEASON FOR CORBELLI DUO

Texas A&M head coach Laurie Corbelli and her husband, associate head coach John Corbelli, are celebrating their 25th season at the helm of the Aggies. Laurie, the 2015 SEC and AVCA South Region coach of the year and the longest tenured head coach at Texas A&M, is 511-239 in her A&M career and 611-345 in the 32nd year of her head coaching career.
Under the Corbellis' direction, the Aggies have reached the 20-win milestone 17 times and have made 20 NCAA tournament appearances, making A&M one of only 14 teams to make at least 20 NCAA appearances since Corbelli was hired in 1993.

A&M SERIES HISTORY VS. LIPSCOMB
Texas A&M won the only other previous meeting against Lipscomb, as the No. 16 seeded Aggies defeated the Bisons, 3-1 (25-16, 25-16, 12-25, 25-22), on Dec. 1, 2011, in the first round of the NCAA Championship at Reed Arena in College Station.
The Aggies had received an at-large bid, while Lipscomb received an automatic bid by winning the Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship.

A&M SERIES HISTORY VS. WISCONSIN

Wisconsin holds a 4-2 lead in the all-time series against Texas A&M, including a 2-0 record in matches played in Madison, Wis.
Last year, No. 6 Wisconsin spoiled Texas A&M's season home opener, sweeping the 16th-ranked Aggies, 25-16, 25-17, 25-22, at Reed Arena. The Badgers were led by freshman Molly Haggerty, who set a Wisconsin three-set record with 27 kills while hitting .641. A&M was led by freshman outside hitter Hollann Hans, who had a double-double with a team-high 13 kills along with 10 digs.
Both of Texas A&M's two victories in the series occurred in an NCAA tournament match, and both were won in three-set sweeps.
In A&M's first victory against Wisconsin, the No. 15-ranked Aggies stunned the sixth-ranked Badgers, 30-28, 30-24, 30-23 in the 2001 Sweet 16 match-up at Stanford on Dec. 7, 2001. It marked the second time and the last time A&M advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight, where the Aggies fell to host and eventual national champion Stanford.
A&M's most recent victory against Wisconsin came in the second round of the 2003 NCAA Championship at G. Rollie White Coliseum. The 24th-ranked and No. 16-seed Aggies defeated the unranked Badgers, 30-22, 30-24, 30-18, to advance to the regional semifinals in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the Aggies fell to No. 1 seed and eventual national champion Southern California.

SCOUTING LIPSCOMB

Lipscomb is receiving votes in the AVCA Top 25 Poll and is listed 33rd. The Bisons are No. 7 in VolleyballMag.com's Mid-Major Poll, which considers all teams not in the "power-five" conferences (ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12).
Lipscomb posted a 3-1 victory over then-No. 24 Arizona during the opening weekend and last weekend recorded a 3-2 victory over Missouri State, which is receiving votes in the AVCA Top 25 and is listed 31st.
For the second consecutive week, junior outside hitter Carlyle Nusbaum has been named the ASUN Conference Volleyball Player of the Week. Nusbaum, who had a career-high 33 kills in a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over Oakland, averaged 5.00 kills per set while helping the Bisons to a 2-1 record at the D.C. Koehl Classic at Ohio State.
Nusbaum is eighth in the nation with 5.00 kills per set for the full season and is ninth with 5.39 points per set.
As a team, the Bisons are 22nd in the nation in assists per set (13.57) and 38th in kills per set (14.17).
Lipscomb is being outhit .243 to .190 and outblocked 3.28 to 2.17 blocks per set but is averaging 1.09 aces per set while opponents are averaging 0.65 aces per set.
The Bisons run a 6-2 offense with setters Morgan Elmore and Marcell Emmanuelli averaging 6.22 and 5.48 assists per set, respectively.
Lipscomb returns three starters from last year's team that won the Atlantic Sun Conference, went 22-8 overall and advanced to the NCAA tournament for a third consecutive year before falling to Kansas State in the first round.
Brandon Rosenthal is 268-171 in the 15th season of his head coaching career, all at Lipscomb.

SCOUTING WISCONSIN

Wisconsin enters the tournament 5-0 and has not dropped a set.
Most recently, the Badgers won the K-State Invitational in Manhattan, Kansas, sweeping Syracuse, Arkansas and the host Wildcats en route to the tournament title.
Wisconsin entered the week leading the nation in hitting percentage (.393) and assists per set (14.87) and ranked second in the nation with 15.67 kills per set.
Freshman setter Sydney Hilley, No. 3 in PrepVolleyball.com's Senior Aces, is third in the nation with 13.00 assists per set, and freshman 6-8 middle blocker Dana Rettke, the PrepVolleyball.com's No. 8 recruit, is fourth in the nation with a .533 hitting efficiency while averaging 3.73 kills per set.
Fifth-year head coach Kelly Sheffield returns three starters plus the libero from last year's team that went 28-5 and was No. 5 in the final rankings after reaching the Elite Eight before falling to eventual national champion Stanford, 3-2.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

A&M closes out its preconference schedule on Wed., Sept. 13 as the Aggies welcome fifth-ranked Texas to Reed Arena. First serve against the Longhorns is slated for 7 p.m., and the match will be televised on SEC Network.
It will be Fish Camp Night, and any student wearing a Fish Camp shirt will receive $3 admission. It also is Corps of Cadets Night at the match. All students with an A&M Sports Pass are admitted free.
A&M opens SEC play at LSU on Friday, Sept. 22.

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