Saturday, April 3
Omaha, Neb.
11:30 AM
Creighton University
vs
Marquette
Wisconsin native Kiara Reinhardt looks to defeat Marquette on Saturday
Photo by: Steve Branscombe
Volleyball Meets Marquette For BIG EAST Tourney Title on Saturday
4/2/2021 11:45:00 PM | Volleyball
Bluejays and Golden Eagles meet in title match for third time in four seasons
Championship Saturday
April 3   11:30 am   Marquette at Creighton (FS1)   Omaha, Neb. (D.J. Sokol Arena)
LIVE VIDEO | LIVE STATS | CU NOTES | MU NOTES
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- Creighton (11-3) will meet Marquette (10-3) on Saturday, April 3rd at 11:30 a.m. Central in the championship match of the BIG EAST Championship Presented by JEEP.
   The match will take place at D.J. Sokol Arena on the Creighton campus in Omaha, Neb.
- Saturday's championship match will be televised nationally on FS1 and can also be viewed on FoxSportsGo.com. Bob Brainerd and Jill Dorsey Hall will call the action.
   Live stats will be available at
http://creighton.statbroadcast.com.
- Creighton is 1-1 this season against Marquette, splitting matches on Feb. 5 (CU won 3-2) and Feb. 6 (MU won 3-0) inside D.J. Sokol Arena.
   At the time, those matches were played as non-conference contests. However, the scheduled rematches in league play between the programs two weeks later in Milwaukee was canceled due to COVID.
   On Feb. 25th, the league notified both schools that the Feb. 5-6 matches would now count as league contests, retroactively snapping CU's 46-match home match win streak in regular-season BIG EAST play that dated back to 2014.
- Digging deeper into the first two meetings...
   Creighton won the first match (25-13, 20-25, 23-25, 25-20, 15-11) as Jaela Zimmerman (19 kills, 15 digs), Keeley Davis (11 kills, 12 digs), Ally Van Eekeren (20 assists, 13 digs) and Mahina Pua'a (20 assists, 11 digs) all posted double-doubles. MU was led by a triple-double from Taylor Wolf (16 assists, 12 kills, 12 digs).
   Marquette swept the rematch by scores of 25-21, 25-14, 25-23 as Kaitlyn Lines led MU with nine kills on .421 hitting. Davis led CU with 13 kills.
   In the two matches, Zimmerman led CU with 30 kills (3.75 kps.) and 23 digs (2.88 dps.), and Naomi Hickman owned 15 blocks (1.88 bps.).
   MU was paced by 20 kills (2.50 kps.) and 34 assists (4.25 aps.) by Wolf, while Katie Schoessow averaged 4.75 digs per set.
   The Creighton team had overall advantages in kills (94-89), blocks (24-9) and hitting percentage (.208 - .164), while MU finished with more aces (19-10) and digs (113-112).
- Creighton is 19-5 all-time against Marquette, and are 15-2 since the start of the 2014 season against MU.
   The Bluejays are 3-1 against the Golden Eagles in BIG EAST Tournament action, having defeated MU in the 2015 semifinal (3-2), the 2017 final (3-2) and the 2018 final (3-1).
   Teams to win the first set are 20-4 in the history of the series, and Creighton has won all five match-ups to go five sets.
   Kirsten Bernthal Booth is 19-5 against Marquette and 15-2 against Ryan Theis.
- Creighton seeks its sixth BIG EAST Tournament title, having won five in a row from 2014-18. All five of those titles came under Kirsten Bernthal Booth.
   Marquette's lone tournament title in program history came in 2013. The Golden Eagles are trying to avoid their fourth straight loss in the championship match.
- Creighton has played eight seasons as a member of the BIG EAST since joining the league in the summer of 2013.
   Since then, the Bluejays are 71-4 in home matches against BIG EAST teams (65-3 in the regular-season, 6-1 in the BIG EAST Tournament).
   Since November of 2014, Creighton is 55-1 inside D.J. Sokol Arena against BIG EAST teams, which includes a 50-1 league mark and a 5-0 mark in the conference tournament. The only setback (on Feb. 6, 2021) was played as a non-conference match, only to be flipped to a league contest 19 days later.
   Put another way, since enrolling at Creighton in 2017, Bluejay senior Naomi Hickman is 34-1 in home matches against BIG EAST teams, winning 102-of-122 sets played.
- The winner of Saturday's BIG EAST Championship match earns itself an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which starts on April 14 just a mile away in the convention center attached to CHI Health Center Omaha.
   In fact, CHI Health Center Omaha (and its attached convention center) will host the entire 48-team tournament.
   The NCAA Volleyball Selection Show airs Sunday at 3 p.m. Central on ESPNU.
- Should Creighton not win the BIG EAST Championship on Saturday, its case is still very strong for an at-large bid. Consider the following ...
- Creighton has been ranked in the top-25 in 9-of-11 polls this season, and among the top three teams 'also receiving votes' in the two weeks it wasn't.
- Per the NCAA, Creighton's opponents have combined to go 132-93. That .587 win percentage ranks as the nation's 29th-toughest schedule.
- Two of Creighton's three losses this season have come in five sets.
- One of Creighton's losses came on the road against the Big 12's third-place team, Kansas State, on a night when CU was without All-Region outside hitters Keeley Davis and Jaela Zimmerman.
- Creighton was 15th in the updated RPI listed on NCAA.com through matches of March 28th.
- The BIG EAST is one of just six conferences that have earned at least one at-large bid in each of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments, joining the Pac-12, Big 10, Big 12, Southeastern and Atlantic Coast Conferences.
   Creighton and Marquette are two of 15 teams nationally to have appeared in each of the last eight NCAA Tournaments (2012-19). That group features BYU, Colorado State, Creighton, Florida, Florida State, Hawai'i, Kentucky, Marquette, Nebraska, Penn State, San Diego, Stanford, Texas, USC and Washington.
- Saturday marks the first time since October 22, 2016 that Creighton and Marquette have been unranked when the play each other.
   Creighton's been ranked in each of the 10 prior battles, while Marquette was in the top-25 for each of the previous seven encounters.
- Creighton advanced to Saturday's BIG EAST Championship match thanks to a 3-0 win (25-20, 25-23, 25-18) on Friday afternoon vs. UConn.
   CU controlled the first and last set, but had to overcome a 22-17 deficit in the middle frame.
   Keeley Davis had 12 kills and Annika Welty matched her career-high with 12 more kills for the Bluejays. Speaking of career-highs, Ellie Bolton had three aces to go with a match-best 17 digs.
   UConn was paced by nine kills from Jasmine Davis, but the Huskies played without All-BIG EAST attacker Caylee Parker.
- Kirsten Bernthal Booth is one of two volleyball coaches in league history to win five or more BIG EAST Championship titles. The only other coach with five or more was Notre Dame's Debbie Brown (9).
- Creighton is now 12-2 all-time in eight BIG EAST Championship appearances, including five titles (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018).
   Creighton is 7-1 in the semifinal round and 5-1 in the finals.
- This is the eighth time in Creighton's last nine seasons that it has reached the conference tournament title match, a stretch that started in 2012 when the Bluejays were members of the Missouri Valley Conference.
- Creighton is 7-2 all-time in conference tournament action inside D.J. Sokol Arena with two titles in four tries.
   Since joining the BIG EAST, that mark stands at 6-1 with two titles in three tries.
-Â Â Â At 12-2, Creighton is the only team in this weekend's BIG EAST Championship with a winning record in the event all-time. UConn is 11-38, St. John's is 7-8 and Marquette is 11-11.
-Â Â Â Kirsten Bernthal Booth is 12-2 in BIG EAST Championship action with five titles. By comparison, the league's 10 other active coaches have a combined mark of 14-28 in the BIG EAST Championship with two titles.
- With a win on Saturday, Creighton would...
- Improve to 12-3 with its fourth straight win, and seventh victory in its last eight outings.
- Improve to 13-2 all-time in the BIG EAST Championship, including a 6-1 mark in the finals.
- Improve to 9-2 at home this season with its sixth straight home victory.
- Kirsten Bernthal Booth would improve to 13-2 at the BIG EAST Championship with six titles, while the rest of the league's active coaches would be a combined 14-29 with two titles.
- Improve to 14-1 all-time in league tournament play as a top seed (12-1 in BIG EAST play).
- Clinch a ninth straight NCAA Tournament bid.
- Improve to 68-1 in its last 69 home matches against unranked teams.
- Creighton Volleyball is seeking the school's seventh different BIG EAST Tournament title won by the school since joining the BIG EAST in the summer of 2013.
   All but one of those titles have been won by the volleyball program.
Creighton's BIG EAST Tournament Titles (6)
Baseball: 2019
Volleyball: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- The BIG EAST Championship has been won by the top seed seven of the last eight years, and the No. 1 seed has also gone 16-1 in its last 17 matches.
- Four members of Creighton's current team were on Creighton's last team to win a BIG EAST Championship two seasons ago in the fall of 2018.
   Naomi Hickman started not only the 2018 title match win vs. Marquette, but also the 2017 title match victory vs. Marquette. In those two contests, Hickman had a combined 10 kills and 11 blocks.
   Jaela Zimmerman started the 2018 final after an injury to Samantha Bohnet, finishing with 12 digs and an ace.
   Annika Welty was on the 2018 team but did not play in the conference tournament, while Keeley Davis redshirted in the fall of 2018.
   Those four women have combined for 483 of Creighton's 685 kills this season (70.3 percent).
- If Naomi Hickman is named to the All-Tournament Team, she'd join some select company as a two-time honoree on that team (she was first chosen in 2018).
   The only five Bluejays in program history to be named to the All-Tournament Team at the BIG EAST Championship multiple times are Taryn Kloth (2017, 2018), Lauren Smith (2013, 2014, 2016), Marysa Wilkinson (2014, 2017), Jaali Winters (2016, 2018) and Brittany Witt (2017, 2019).
   All five of those women earned AVCA Honorable-Mention All-America honors at some point in their career, something Hickman has yet to attain.
   Hickman had six kills and two blocks while hitting .455 on Friday vs. UConn.
- Naomi Hickman has been a force at the net throughout her career, but her game seems to step up a notch when she's playing against Marquette.
   In 34 career sets vs. Marquette, Hickman owns an astounding 54 blocks. That's good for a 1.59 blocks per set average, and it's coming against what has traditionally been one of the nation's best offenses.
   Hickman owns four career matches with 10 or more blocks, with three of those coming against Marquette. She's the only player in Creighton history to produce three matches of 10+ blocks against the same opponent.
Most Blocks In A Match - Naomi Hickman
   Blocks   Opponent, BA-BS, Sets   Date
   11   Hickman at #10 Marquette (1-10 in 5s)   10-12-19
   11   Hickman vs. #25 Marquette (0-11 in 5s)   02-05-21
   10   Hickman vs. #9 Marquette (0-10 in 4s)   11-22-19
   10   Hickman vs. DePaul (1-9 in 4s)   11-24-19
Matches With 10+ Blocks, Career
   10+ Blocks   Name   Years
   9   Kelli Browning   2011-14
   5   Laurel Sanford   2008-11
   4   Ashley Williams   2001-04
   4   Jessica Houts   2006-09
   4   Lauren Smith   2013-16
   4   Naomi Hickman   2017-Present
   3   JoDe Cieloha   1994-97
- Keeley Davis entered Creighton's match at No. 10 Marquette on Oct. 12, 2019 with a season-best of 14 kills, only to go off for 31 kills in the 3-2 win over the Golden Eagles in her first career match inside Al McGuire Center.
   Ten of Davis' kills came in the third set and six came in the first 15 points of the fifth set. Overall, 23 of her kills came after intermission.
   Her 31 kills were one shy of the program record set by Michelle Prorock vs. Evansville in 1996.
   In four career matches and 17 sets played vs. Marquette, Davis owns 67 kills (3.94 kps.).
- Creighton has three players from the Badger State who will be looking to claim bragging rights with another win over Marquette this season.
   Kiana Schmitt hails from Waunakee, Makenna Krause is from Greenville and Kiara Reinhardt is from the northern Milwaukee suburb of Cedarburg.
   One of Reinhardt's teammates at Cedarburg High School was current Villanova middle blocker Maddie Barber, who is the sister of former Marquette All-American and 2019 BIG EAST Player of the Year Allie Barber.
- Eleven of the last 13 teams to win the first set of the BIG EAST Championship title match have gone on to win the match, and are 31-7 all-time in the finals when taking a 1-0 lead.
   The recent exceptions came in 2017 and 2018, when Creighton lost the first set but won the match. Both of those victories came vs. Marquette.
   Only two teams in event history have dropped the first two sets of the title match and won (Pittsburgh in 1993, Louisville in 2006).
   Creighton is 10-1 this year when winning the first set, and 1-2 when it doesn't.
- Since an Oct. 10, 2014 loss at Seton Hall, Creighton is a perfect 100-0 against BIG EAST teams (91-0 in the regular-season and 9-0 in league tournament play) when winning the third set.
- Â Â Â Creighton has gone 51-1 in its last 52 matches when winning the first set, compared to a 6-9 record in that same span when dropping the opener.
   Creighton has gone 93-1 in its last 94 matches against unranked foes when winning the opening set.
- Creighton is 319-31 (.911) overall under Kirsten Bernthal Booth when it wins set one. In that same time span, CU is just 63-143 (.306) under Booth when it drops the first set.
   All-time in BIG EAST Tournament play Creighton is 9-0 when it wins the first set. The Jays are 16-1 all-time (15-1 under Booth) when winning the first set in a league tournament with 15 straight wins since a 2003 setback.
- Creighton Volleyball has made the NCAA Tournament in each of the previous eight seasons. They are the only women's team in any sport at Creighton to make eight straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
   The only other sport in Creighton history to make eight straight NCAA Tournament appearances is the men's soccer program, which qualified in 17 straight seasons from 1992-2008.
   Creighton is one of 15 teams nationally to have appeared in each of the previous eight NCAA Tournaments. That group features BYU, Colorado State, Creighton, Florida, Florida State, Hawaii, Kentucky, Marquette, Nebraska, Penn State, San Diego, Stanford, Texas, USC and Washington.
   Creighton is one of 13 teams to win a match in each of the last five NCAA Tournaments (2015-19). That group includes BYU, Creighton, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Purdue, Penn State, Stanford, Texas, USC, Washington and Wisconsin.
April 3   11:30 am   Marquette at Creighton (FS1)   Omaha, Neb. (D.J. Sokol Arena)
LIVE VIDEO | LIVE STATS | CU NOTES | MU NOTES
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- Creighton (11-3) will meet Marquette (10-3) on Saturday, April 3rd at 11:30 a.m. Central in the championship match of the BIG EAST Championship Presented by JEEP.
   The match will take place at D.J. Sokol Arena on the Creighton campus in Omaha, Neb.
- Saturday's championship match will be televised nationally on FS1 and can also be viewed on FoxSportsGo.com. Bob Brainerd and Jill Dorsey Hall will call the action.
   Live stats will be available at
http://creighton.statbroadcast.com.
- Creighton is 1-1 this season against Marquette, splitting matches on Feb. 5 (CU won 3-2) and Feb. 6 (MU won 3-0) inside D.J. Sokol Arena.
   At the time, those matches were played as non-conference contests. However, the scheduled rematches in league play between the programs two weeks later in Milwaukee was canceled due to COVID.
   On Feb. 25th, the league notified both schools that the Feb. 5-6 matches would now count as league contests, retroactively snapping CU's 46-match home match win streak in regular-season BIG EAST play that dated back to 2014.
- Digging deeper into the first two meetings...
   Creighton won the first match (25-13, 20-25, 23-25, 25-20, 15-11) as Jaela Zimmerman (19 kills, 15 digs), Keeley Davis (11 kills, 12 digs), Ally Van Eekeren (20 assists, 13 digs) and Mahina Pua'a (20 assists, 11 digs) all posted double-doubles. MU was led by a triple-double from Taylor Wolf (16 assists, 12 kills, 12 digs).
   Marquette swept the rematch by scores of 25-21, 25-14, 25-23 as Kaitlyn Lines led MU with nine kills on .421 hitting. Davis led CU with 13 kills.
   In the two matches, Zimmerman led CU with 30 kills (3.75 kps.) and 23 digs (2.88 dps.), and Naomi Hickman owned 15 blocks (1.88 bps.).
   MU was paced by 20 kills (2.50 kps.) and 34 assists (4.25 aps.) by Wolf, while Katie Schoessow averaged 4.75 digs per set.
   The Creighton team had overall advantages in kills (94-89), blocks (24-9) and hitting percentage (.208 - .164), while MU finished with more aces (19-10) and digs (113-112).
- Creighton is 19-5 all-time against Marquette, and are 15-2 since the start of the 2014 season against MU.
   The Bluejays are 3-1 against the Golden Eagles in BIG EAST Tournament action, having defeated MU in the 2015 semifinal (3-2), the 2017 final (3-2) and the 2018 final (3-1).
   Teams to win the first set are 20-4 in the history of the series, and Creighton has won all five match-ups to go five sets.
   Kirsten Bernthal Booth is 19-5 against Marquette and 15-2 against Ryan Theis.
- Creighton seeks its sixth BIG EAST Tournament title, having won five in a row from 2014-18. All five of those titles came under Kirsten Bernthal Booth.
   Marquette's lone tournament title in program history came in 2013. The Golden Eagles are trying to avoid their fourth straight loss in the championship match.
- Creighton has played eight seasons as a member of the BIG EAST since joining the league in the summer of 2013.
   Since then, the Bluejays are 71-4 in home matches against BIG EAST teams (65-3 in the regular-season, 6-1 in the BIG EAST Tournament).
   Since November of 2014, Creighton is 55-1 inside D.J. Sokol Arena against BIG EAST teams, which includes a 50-1 league mark and a 5-0 mark in the conference tournament. The only setback (on Feb. 6, 2021) was played as a non-conference match, only to be flipped to a league contest 19 days later.
   Put another way, since enrolling at Creighton in 2017, Bluejay senior Naomi Hickman is 34-1 in home matches against BIG EAST teams, winning 102-of-122 sets played.
- The winner of Saturday's BIG EAST Championship match earns itself an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which starts on April 14 just a mile away in the convention center attached to CHI Health Center Omaha.
   In fact, CHI Health Center Omaha (and its attached convention center) will host the entire 48-team tournament.
   The NCAA Volleyball Selection Show airs Sunday at 3 p.m. Central on ESPNU.
- Should Creighton not win the BIG EAST Championship on Saturday, its case is still very strong for an at-large bid. Consider the following ...
- Creighton has been ranked in the top-25 in 9-of-11 polls this season, and among the top three teams 'also receiving votes' in the two weeks it wasn't.
- Per the NCAA, Creighton's opponents have combined to go 132-93. That .587 win percentage ranks as the nation's 29th-toughest schedule.
- Two of Creighton's three losses this season have come in five sets.
- One of Creighton's losses came on the road against the Big 12's third-place team, Kansas State, on a night when CU was without All-Region outside hitters Keeley Davis and Jaela Zimmerman.
- Creighton was 15th in the updated RPI listed on NCAA.com through matches of March 28th.
- The BIG EAST is one of just six conferences that have earned at least one at-large bid in each of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments, joining the Pac-12, Big 10, Big 12, Southeastern and Atlantic Coast Conferences.
   Creighton and Marquette are two of 15 teams nationally to have appeared in each of the last eight NCAA Tournaments (2012-19). That group features BYU, Colorado State, Creighton, Florida, Florida State, Hawai'i, Kentucky, Marquette, Nebraska, Penn State, San Diego, Stanford, Texas, USC and Washington.
- Saturday marks the first time since October 22, 2016 that Creighton and Marquette have been unranked when the play each other.
   Creighton's been ranked in each of the 10 prior battles, while Marquette was in the top-25 for each of the previous seven encounters.
- Creighton advanced to Saturday's BIG EAST Championship match thanks to a 3-0 win (25-20, 25-23, 25-18) on Friday afternoon vs. UConn.
   CU controlled the first and last set, but had to overcome a 22-17 deficit in the middle frame.
   Keeley Davis had 12 kills and Annika Welty matched her career-high with 12 more kills for the Bluejays. Speaking of career-highs, Ellie Bolton had three aces to go with a match-best 17 digs.
   UConn was paced by nine kills from Jasmine Davis, but the Huskies played without All-BIG EAST attacker Caylee Parker.
- Kirsten Bernthal Booth is one of two volleyball coaches in league history to win five or more BIG EAST Championship titles. The only other coach with five or more was Notre Dame's Debbie Brown (9).
- Creighton is now 12-2 all-time in eight BIG EAST Championship appearances, including five titles (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018).
   Creighton is 7-1 in the semifinal round and 5-1 in the finals.
- This is the eighth time in Creighton's last nine seasons that it has reached the conference tournament title match, a stretch that started in 2012 when the Bluejays were members of the Missouri Valley Conference.
- Creighton is 7-2 all-time in conference tournament action inside D.J. Sokol Arena with two titles in four tries.
   Since joining the BIG EAST, that mark stands at 6-1 with two titles in three tries.
-Â Â Â At 12-2, Creighton is the only team in this weekend's BIG EAST Championship with a winning record in the event all-time. UConn is 11-38, St. John's is 7-8 and Marquette is 11-11.
-Â Â Â Kirsten Bernthal Booth is 12-2 in BIG EAST Championship action with five titles. By comparison, the league's 10 other active coaches have a combined mark of 14-28 in the BIG EAST Championship with two titles.
- With a win on Saturday, Creighton would...
- Improve to 12-3 with its fourth straight win, and seventh victory in its last eight outings.
- Improve to 13-2 all-time in the BIG EAST Championship, including a 6-1 mark in the finals.
- Improve to 9-2 at home this season with its sixth straight home victory.
- Kirsten Bernthal Booth would improve to 13-2 at the BIG EAST Championship with six titles, while the rest of the league's active coaches would be a combined 14-29 with two titles.
- Improve to 14-1 all-time in league tournament play as a top seed (12-1 in BIG EAST play).
- Clinch a ninth straight NCAA Tournament bid.
- Improve to 68-1 in its last 69 home matches against unranked teams.
- Creighton Volleyball is seeking the school's seventh different BIG EAST Tournament title won by the school since joining the BIG EAST in the summer of 2013.
   All but one of those titles have been won by the volleyball program.
Creighton's BIG EAST Tournament Titles (6)
Baseball: 2019
Volleyball: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- The BIG EAST Championship has been won by the top seed seven of the last eight years, and the No. 1 seed has also gone 16-1 in its last 17 matches.
- Four members of Creighton's current team were on Creighton's last team to win a BIG EAST Championship two seasons ago in the fall of 2018.
   Naomi Hickman started not only the 2018 title match win vs. Marquette, but also the 2017 title match victory vs. Marquette. In those two contests, Hickman had a combined 10 kills and 11 blocks.
   Jaela Zimmerman started the 2018 final after an injury to Samantha Bohnet, finishing with 12 digs and an ace.
   Annika Welty was on the 2018 team but did not play in the conference tournament, while Keeley Davis redshirted in the fall of 2018.
   Those four women have combined for 483 of Creighton's 685 kills this season (70.3 percent).
- If Naomi Hickman is named to the All-Tournament Team, she'd join some select company as a two-time honoree on that team (she was first chosen in 2018).
   The only five Bluejays in program history to be named to the All-Tournament Team at the BIG EAST Championship multiple times are Taryn Kloth (2017, 2018), Lauren Smith (2013, 2014, 2016), Marysa Wilkinson (2014, 2017), Jaali Winters (2016, 2018) and Brittany Witt (2017, 2019).
   All five of those women earned AVCA Honorable-Mention All-America honors at some point in their career, something Hickman has yet to attain.
   Hickman had six kills and two blocks while hitting .455 on Friday vs. UConn.
- Naomi Hickman has been a force at the net throughout her career, but her game seems to step up a notch when she's playing against Marquette.
   In 34 career sets vs. Marquette, Hickman owns an astounding 54 blocks. That's good for a 1.59 blocks per set average, and it's coming against what has traditionally been one of the nation's best offenses.
   Hickman owns four career matches with 10 or more blocks, with three of those coming against Marquette. She's the only player in Creighton history to produce three matches of 10+ blocks against the same opponent.
Most Blocks In A Match - Naomi Hickman
   Blocks   Opponent, BA-BS, Sets   Date
   11   Hickman at #10 Marquette (1-10 in 5s)   10-12-19
   11   Hickman vs. #25 Marquette (0-11 in 5s)   02-05-21
   10   Hickman vs. #9 Marquette (0-10 in 4s)   11-22-19
   10   Hickman vs. DePaul (1-9 in 4s)   11-24-19
Matches With 10+ Blocks, Career
   10+ Blocks   Name   Years
   9   Kelli Browning   2011-14
   5   Laurel Sanford   2008-11
   4   Ashley Williams   2001-04
   4   Jessica Houts   2006-09
   4   Lauren Smith   2013-16
   4   Naomi Hickman   2017-Present
   3   JoDe Cieloha   1994-97
- Keeley Davis entered Creighton's match at No. 10 Marquette on Oct. 12, 2019 with a season-best of 14 kills, only to go off for 31 kills in the 3-2 win over the Golden Eagles in her first career match inside Al McGuire Center.
   Ten of Davis' kills came in the third set and six came in the first 15 points of the fifth set. Overall, 23 of her kills came after intermission.
   Her 31 kills were one shy of the program record set by Michelle Prorock vs. Evansville in 1996.
   In four career matches and 17 sets played vs. Marquette, Davis owns 67 kills (3.94 kps.).
- Creighton has three players from the Badger State who will be looking to claim bragging rights with another win over Marquette this season.
   Kiana Schmitt hails from Waunakee, Makenna Krause is from Greenville and Kiara Reinhardt is from the northern Milwaukee suburb of Cedarburg.
   One of Reinhardt's teammates at Cedarburg High School was current Villanova middle blocker Maddie Barber, who is the sister of former Marquette All-American and 2019 BIG EAST Player of the Year Allie Barber.
- Eleven of the last 13 teams to win the first set of the BIG EAST Championship title match have gone on to win the match, and are 31-7 all-time in the finals when taking a 1-0 lead.
   The recent exceptions came in 2017 and 2018, when Creighton lost the first set but won the match. Both of those victories came vs. Marquette.
   Only two teams in event history have dropped the first two sets of the title match and won (Pittsburgh in 1993, Louisville in 2006).
   Creighton is 10-1 this year when winning the first set, and 1-2 when it doesn't.
- Since an Oct. 10, 2014 loss at Seton Hall, Creighton is a perfect 100-0 against BIG EAST teams (91-0 in the regular-season and 9-0 in league tournament play) when winning the third set.
- Â Â Â Creighton has gone 51-1 in its last 52 matches when winning the first set, compared to a 6-9 record in that same span when dropping the opener.
   Creighton has gone 93-1 in its last 94 matches against unranked foes when winning the opening set.
- Creighton is 319-31 (.911) overall under Kirsten Bernthal Booth when it wins set one. In that same time span, CU is just 63-143 (.306) under Booth when it drops the first set.
   All-time in BIG EAST Tournament play Creighton is 9-0 when it wins the first set. The Jays are 16-1 all-time (15-1 under Booth) when winning the first set in a league tournament with 15 straight wins since a 2003 setback.
- Creighton Volleyball has made the NCAA Tournament in each of the previous eight seasons. They are the only women's team in any sport at Creighton to make eight straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
   The only other sport in Creighton history to make eight straight NCAA Tournament appearances is the men's soccer program, which qualified in 17 straight seasons from 1992-2008.
   Creighton is one of 15 teams nationally to have appeared in each of the previous eight NCAA Tournaments. That group features BYU, Colorado State, Creighton, Florida, Florida State, Hawaii, Kentucky, Marquette, Nebraska, Penn State, San Diego, Stanford, Texas, USC and Washington.
   Creighton is one of 13 teams to win a match in each of the last five NCAA Tournaments (2015-19). That group includes BYU, Creighton, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Purdue, Penn State, Stanford, Texas, USC, Washington and Wisconsin.
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/ Volleyball#18 Creighton Volleyball Highlights vs. Rice - 9/13/25
Saturday, September 13
Creighton Volleyball Postgame vs. Rice, 9/13/25
Saturday, September 13
#18 Creighton Volleyball Highlights vs. #4 Louisville - 9/12/25
Saturday, September 13
Creighton Volleyball Press Conference vs. Louisville
Saturday, September 13
