No. 24 Volleyball Hosts No. 12 Kentucky and Auburn to Wrap Regular Season

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The No. 24 ranked University of Missouri volleyball team (19-7, 10-4 SEC) concludes its 2024 regular season this week with a pair of home matches at the Hearnes Center.

Mizzou will host 2024 SEC Champion and No. 12 Kentucky in a top-25 showdown Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. MU then takes on Auburn in a Tiger battle on Senior Night Saturday. Match times are set for 7 p.m., CT and 7:30 p.m., CT, Wednesday and Saturday.

Both matches will be featured on SEC Network+. Casey Roehl and former Mizzou libero Riley Rohler will be on the broadcast Wednesday against Kentucky.

MU is ranked in the top-25 for the third-straight week this season. The Tigers previously received votes four times this season (preseason, Sept. 2, Oct. 28 and now Nov. 4) before breaching the top-25 on Nov. 11.

MU is ranked 23rd this season for RPI (fifth-highest SEC school).

Mizzou welcomed a season-high 6,379 fans to the Hearnes Center Nov. 15 against Florida. It marked the fifth 3,000-plus match in 2024 and is the fourth-highest Mizzou Volleyball crowd in program history and the largest since Nov. 27, 2013 (vs. Arkansas). MU ranks 21st in the nation (fifth in the SEC) for average attendance (3,095) this season.

The Tigers have surpassed their SEC (9) and overall win (18) totals from 2023, when Dawn Sullivan was named SEC Coach of the Year. Mizzou notched its 10th SEC win (19th overall) at Ole Miss, it marked the first double-digit SEC season since 2020 (15 SEC wins).

The Tigers rank first overall in the SEC for assists per set (13.65, second in NCAA) and kills per set (14.48, sixth in NCAA). Mizzou is also first in the SEC for assists (1,365) and kills (1,448). MU is also…