BATON ROUGE, The. – LSU will play its final road game of the regular season when it takes on Texas A&M at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, November 16th at Reed Arena in College Station, Texas.
The midweek matchup between LSU (14-11, 8-7 SEC) and Texas A&M (12-14, 4-11 SEC) will be broadcast on SEC Network+.
The LSU Tigers offense has a hitting percentage of .223 this season with 12.61 kills and 11.62 assists per set this season. The Tigers are an impressive 9-1 when hitting over .250 in a game that includes a 6-0 record when hitting over .300. Defensively, LSU allows its opponents a .202 hitting percentage (No. 5 in the SEC) and ranks second in the league with 15.29 digs per set. LSU has held teams below a .200 hitting percentage 14 times this season and averages 2.07 blocks per set.
Outside hitter Sanaa Dotson leads the team with 3.67 kills per set and 24 aces on the season and adds 42 blocks to her stats. Outside hitter Paige Flickinger follows with 2.58 kills per set and has 18 aces and 2.59 digs per set. Flickinger will record her seventh double-double of the season, while Dotson leads the team with eight double-doubles.
Libero Ella Larkin leads the SEC with 4.38 digs per set (447 total) and is 51 digs shy of entering the top 10 of the program record book for most digs in a single season (Raigen Cianciulli No. 10 with 498 total excavations). Larkin has compiled four 30-plus dig performances this season and has 14 aces.
Setter Josie Vondran ranks 10th in the conference with 6.53 assists per set and contributes 90 kills, 50 blocks and 12 aces. Freshman Maddie Waak has recorded 4.38 assists per set to go along with 16 assists and has three double-doubles this season. Middle blocker Anita Anwusi leads the team with 1.12 blocks per set (114 total) and has accumulated 181 total kills on the year.
Although Texas A&M is riding a four-game losing streak, they have come away with impressive SEC wins this season, including sweeps of Ole Miss and Tennessee to start league play 2-0, and then fell to the no. 16 Kentucky and South Carolina later in the season. The Aggies are hitting .237 on the season behind 12.90 kills and 12.15 assists per set. They also averaged 1.28 ac per set. Defensively, though, opponents are hitting .223 this season. A&M ranks fifth in the SEC with 2.41 blocks per set and has 13.19 digs per set.
Freshman outside hitter Logan Lednicky and senior outside hitter Caroline Meuth rank fourth and fifth in the SEC with 4.03 and 3.94 kills per set, respectively. Middle blocker Madison Bowser leads the conference with a .417 hitting percentage and had 0.92 blocks per set (92 total), but middle blocker Molly Brown leads the team with 1.17 blocks per set (90 total) in just 77 sets. played. Setter Elena Karakasi is fifth in SEC with 9.99 assists per set.
LSU trails Texas A&M in the all-time series, 18-30 even though the Tigers beat the Aggies last season in Baton Rouge.
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