Volleyball Hosts South Carolina Sunday in SEC Home Opener

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri volleyball team (8-4, 0-1 SEC) will welcome South Carolina (6-3, 0-0 SEC) to the Hearnes Center Sunday for the Tigers 2023 Southeastern Conference Home Opener. First serve is set for 3 p.m., CT.

The match will be televised on SEC Network+ with Casey Roehl and Riley Rohler on the call.

With one more win, Mizzou will tie its win total from the 2022 season.

PROMOTIONS

• Sunday is a Gold Rush and fans are encouraged to wear gold.
• Fans in attendance will receive Gold T-shirts, while supplies last.
• Following the match, fans can stick around for post-match autographs from the Mizzou Volleyball Team.

SERIES HISTORY

• Missouri leads the all-time series with South Carolina, 9-8.
• Despite holding a slight edge in the series, Mizzou has lost each of the last five meetings in the battles of the two schools in Columbia.
• The two teams last met Oct. 1-2, 2022, with South Carolina sweeping the two matches (3-2 and 3-0) in Columbia, South Carolina.
• Missouri last beat the Gamecocks, 3-0, on Feb. 26, 2021, to open the two-match set in Columbia, South Carolina.

TENNESSEE RECAP

• Missouri dropped its conference opener at Tennessee on Wednesday evening in Knoxville.
• Janet deMarrais paced Mizzou with 10 kills and two blocks along with a career-best four digs and an ace (career high). It marked her third career double-digit kill match and second straight.
• Dilara Gedikoglu (four digs) and Jordan Iliff (two digs) each added five kills.  
• Freshman Sierra Dudley tallied 19 assists with a dig.
• Sarah White and Luisa Melloni added six and four assists (Division I career high), respectively.
• Libero Maya Sands grabbed 10 digs with a pair of aces.

IT’S JO TIME

• Jordan Iliff registered 18 kills (2.57 kills/set) and 16 digs (2.29 digs/set) as Missouri went 1-1 at Eastern Illinois (Sept. 14-15) to wrap up non-conference play.
• Iliff tallied her first career double-double of 10 kills and a career-best 13 digs with five blocks in the series finale with EIU on Sept. 15.
• She led the Missouri attack in the opener with EIU on Sept. 14, with eight kills to go with three digs, two blocks and an ace.
• The St. Louis native leads Mizzou this season with 136 kills (3.16 kills/set, 14th in the SEC).
• Iliff has registered eight matches with 10 plus kills thus…