• Tennessee has one of their easier road trip weekends as the two schools they travel to, Alabama and Mississippi State, are only 80 miles apart from each other.

• After defeating ETSU, Mississippi, and Arkansas last week, Tennessee is on a three match winning streak. With a win vs Alabama on Friday they can extend that to their longest winning streak of the season so far. If they add another win on Sunday vs Mississippi State they’d have their longest winning streak since September 2006.

• Tennessee is 16-1 vs MSU since 1997.

• Tennessee’s win vs the Tide earlier this year was their first in their last six tries.

• Alabama and Mississippi State are the only two SEC teams currently ranked in the top 50 in the nation in aces per set. Alabama ranks 17th with 1.79 while MSU is 43rd with 1.57. Alabama sophomore Mary Catherine Aune has 34 aces this season. Her 0.60 aces per set makes her the fourth best in the nation. The good news is the Lady Vols rank 2nd in the conference in serve reception errors per set.

• Alabama (10-8, 3-6)
Tennessee leads the all time series 24-12
Tennessee won earlier this season 3-1 (25-17, 25-17, 24-26, 25-18)
Game time is Fri, October 24th at 7:00pm CT
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• Mississippi State (6-14, 1-8)
Tennessee leads the all time series 34-7
Tennessee won earlier this season 3-0 (25-20, 25-13, 25-14)
Game time is Sun, October 26th at 1:30pm CT
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MSU match notes (PDF)

	Tenn.	Ala.	Miss. St.
Matches / Games	21 / 78	18 / 67	20 / 72
Kills Errors / Total Attacks Kills per game Hitting Percentage	998 392 / 2676 12.8 .226	829 309 / 2257 12.4 .230	769 442 / 2309 10.7 .142
Assists Assists per game	926 11.9	759 11.3	693 9.6
Service Aces Aces per game	95 1.2	120 1.8	113 1.6
Digs Digs per game	1167 15.0	946 14.1	837 11.6
Solo Blocks / Assists Blocks per game	32 / 309 2.4	53 / 163 2.0	38 / 193 1.9

UPDATE: Tennessee and Alabama match notes are now online.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm.