Texas vs. Texas A&M Notes

Texas Post-Match Notes

  • With the victory, Texas improved to 27-1 on the season. The Longhorns advance to the Regional Final, where they will meet the winner of Friday's late match between seventh-seeded Iowa State and 10th-seeded Nebraska.
  • Texas has now advanced to the NCAA Regional Final in each of the last four seasons and will be looking for their second straight trip to the NCAA Semifinals.
  • The win was Texas' eighth straight victory overall and the Longhorns' 12th straight win against Texas A&M. UT leads the all-time series with the Aggies, 67-22.
  • Texas improved to 56-22 all-time in NCAA Tournament action. The Longhorns' 56 all-time NCAA Tournament wins rank seventh nationally.
  • The Texas senior class improved its four-year win total to 107, the most in Head Coach Jerritt Elliott's eight seasons in Austin. The 107 victories are the most by a Texas senior class since 1993.
  • Texas' .402 hitting percentage was the highest Texas A&M has allowed this season.
  • Destinee Hooker finished with 23 kills in tonight's match, marking her fifth 20-kill effort of the season and second straight. Hooker opened the match with a kill to become just the second Longhorn ever to record 200 career kills in the NCAA Tournament. Hooker now owns 222 kills in her postseason career.
  • Hooker hit .465 on the night, committing only three errors in 43 swings. She did not commit her first error until her 27th swing of the night at the 22-18 mark of the second set.
  • In four career matches at the Qwest Center, Hooker has totaled 77 kills on .376 hitting with 43 digs, 11 blocks and five aces. She is averaging 19.25 kills per match at the Qwest Center.
  • Hooker also added one service ace in the match. In her NCAA Tournament career, Hooker has record 19 aces to tie the Texas career postseason list (also 19 by Dawn Davenport).
  • Hooker also increased her career total to 18 solo blocks to rank second in UT history in postseason matches (19 by Angie Breitenfield is school record).
  • Ashley Engle finished with six kills, to give her 1,202 kills in her career. She is just the 10th Longhorn to record 1,200 kills in a career
  • Heather Kisner had nine digs in the matching to give her 161 digs in her NCAA Tournament career. That total is just one shy of Alyson Jennings' Texas postseason record.

Texas A&M Post-Match Notes

  • Texas A&M finished its season with a 20-11 record. In the program's 18th all-time NCAA Tournament appearance, the Aggies advanced to Regional play for the eighth time in school history. Texas A&M finished just one victory shy of matching its best-ever finish in postseason play, as the Aggies advanced to the Regional Final in both 1999 and 2001.
  • The loss snapped the Aggies' six-match win streak, as A&M fell to Texas for the 12th straight time dating back to 2004. The Longhorns eliminated the Aggies from the NCAA Tournament for the third time (also a 3-0 Texas sweep in the second round of the 1985 28-team tournament and a 3-0 Texas sweep in the second round of the 1993 28-team tournament).
  • Texas A&M fell to 22-18 all-time in the NCAA Tournament with the loss, including a 20-14 record under 17th-year head coach Laurie Corbelli.
  • The loss snapped a two-match winning streak for Texas A&M against ranked opponents. The Aggies finished 2009 with a 4-8 record against ranked foes, including a 1-5 mark against top-10 teams.
  • Texas hit .402 against the Aggies, marking the highest opponent hitting percentage of the season.
  • Sarah Ammerman ended her tremendous career with 16 kills, six digs and 16.0 points against Texas. Ammerman finishes her career ranked third in Aggie history in career points during the rally-scoring era (1,708.5), fourth in kills (1,518) and tied for 14th in digs (1,009).
  • Mary Batis narrowly missed her 11th double-double of the season, finishing with 12 digs and nine kills.