Purdue Set for Indiana, Michigan in Week 11

Friday, November 8
7 p.m. ET | #9 Purdue at Indiana | B1G+ | WSHY 104.3 FM
 
Sunday, November 10
1 p.m. ET | Michigan at #9 Purdue | B1G+ | WSHY 104.3 FM
 

West Lafayette, Ind. – After a pair of sweeps, the Purdue volleyball squad (18-5, 9-3 Big Ten) re-entered the AVCA coaches' poll top-10 for Week 11, checking in at No. 9 ahead of the team's trip to Indiana (12-10, 5-7 Big Ten) on Friday and vs. Michigan (16-7, 6-6 Big Ten) at home on Sunday.
 
Both matches will be available to watch on B1G+.
 
SCHEDULE NOTES

• Only eight matches remain in the regular-season, including four home matches.
• Purdue's already played eight teams ranked or receiving votes and have an additional four matches to come.
• The regular season will close with four straight matches vs. teams ranked or receiving votes, with three on the road: at #3 Penn State (11/21), vs. #20 USC (11/23), at #12 Oregon (11/27) and at receiving votes (RV) Washington (11/29).

 
PURDUE'S 9-3 BIG TEN RECORD

• The team entered November with just three Big Ten losses, marking the second straight year and seventh time Purdue has had such few losses under Shondell this far into league play.

 
SCOUTING THE INDIANA HOOSIERS

• Indiana currently sits at 11th in the Big Ten standings and are 5-5 over its last 10 matches.
• Since playing Purdue in Mackey, the Hoosiers have gone 3-1, with a loss to #8 Wisconsin and wins vs. Northwestern, at Maryland and at Rutgers.
• One of the best liberos in the Big Ten, sophomore Ramsey Gary is averaging 4.35 digs per set, #3 in the league.
• Candela Alonso-Corcelles leads the team with 4.11 points per set, followed by Mady Saris' 2.61.
• Cam Haworth leads the team behind the service line, ranking #5 in the conference with 37 aces this season.

 
SCOUTING THE MICHIGAN WOLVERINES

• Michigan sits at 10th in the Big Ten standings and have a 4-6 record over its last 10 matches.
• Five of Michigan's seven losses this season have come to top-15 programs during Big Ten action.
• Rutgers has pushed two Big Ten teams to five sets: vs. Iowa and at Michigan, both of which came in the opening weekend.
• The Wolverine generates a strong offense, seeing the second-most assists and attacks among Big Ten Teams. Meanwhile, they are ranked third in kills and fourth in aces per set and digs.
• Valentina Vaulet's serve produces .64 aces per set, 5th in the nation and will mark the second straight week Purdue has faced the toughest servers in not just the Big Ten, but nation (last week faced the national leader at Maryland).
• Allison Jacobs and Valentina Vaulet lead the team's offense with Nyambio owning a .376 hitting % and Jacobs kills per set and 4.40 points per set.

 
PURDUE VS. INDIANA: HISTORY AT A GLANCE

• Purdue is 30-19 all-time in away matches at Indiana.
• The Boilermakers won 10 consecutive matches in Bloomington until last year's loss (2013-22).
• Purdue is 23-1 in the last 24 matches vs. Indiana (home and away).
• The Boilermakers have lost at home just one time under Dave Shondell and are 39-4 all-time vs. Indiana since Shondell took the reigns in 2003.
• The Boilermakers have won 20 of the last 22 Monon Spike matches.

 
PURDUE'S NON CON VS. BIG TEN PLAY IMPROVEMENTS

• Despite playing six more sets in non-con, the Boilermakers have scored more points offensively (778 points in Big Ten vs. 711 in non-con, including 611 kills in Big Ten play vs. 536 in non-con).
• Serving has also improved, now averaging 1.50 aces per set in Big Ten action vs. 1.34 in non-con.
• Although Purdue's block has not been as efficient in Big Ten play (averaging one less block per set), the team has made fewer blocking errors in league action.

HUDSON: IMPROVING AS THE SEASON GOES

• Like last year, Hudson is improving during Big Ten action. She has increased her kills per set (4.34 in non-con vs. 4.59 in Big Ten play), hitting % (.279 in non-con vs. .285 in Big Ten), digs per set (2.21 in non-con vs. 2.57 in Big Ten).

 
BIG TEN DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK (11/4): ALI HORNUNG

• Libero Ali Hornung received her second Defensive Player of the Week award after guiding the team to a Big Ten-leading 17.67. Meanwhile her passing set Purdue up for a Big Ten-leading .364 hitting % and 15.83 kills per set.
• She registered a perfect reception % at Maryland and at Rutgers.
• Began the week with 17 digs at Maryland, followed by 14 at Rutgers.
• It was Hornung's second career DPOW, earning one as well a month ago (10/7) after totaling 64 digs (5.33 per set) over three matches, including 22 digs in three sets vs. Michigan State and a near-double-double vs. #10 Kentucky.
• Hornung is averaging more digs per set during conference-play vs. non-con: 4.18 vs. 3.76.

 
CHICOINE'S ERRORLESS PERFORMANCE VS. INDIANA

• Chloe Chicoine went errorless on the attach vs. Indiana (10/19), recording 12 kills on 30 attacks for a .400 clip.
• The last time a Purdue outside hitter went errorless with a 30 attack minimum was All-American Grace Cleveland vs. Indiana in 2021.
• In fact, Chicoine is just the third Boilermaker in the last 10 years to go errorless on the attack with a 30-attempt minimum. In addition to Cleveland's match, she is joined by Sherridan Atkinson's.
• She is the only outside hitter in the Big Ten to go errorless on the attack in league action this year, and is just the second overall this season, joined by Oregon's Mimi Colyer's 12-0-33 (.364%) show vs. San Diego on Sept. 14.
• Meanwhile, she went errorless in seven of eight sets last week (vs. UCLA and vs. Indiana).