Alabama Volleyball Makes Quick Trip to Starkville for Midweek Match at Mississippi State

Wednesday, November 3

Starkville, Miss.

7 p.m. CT

Alabama

Mississippi State

Photo by: David Gray

11/2/2021 9:30:00 AM | Volleyball

The Crimson Tide and Bulldogs will face off Wednesday at 7 p.m. CT on the SEC Network

This Week: Alabama at Mississippi State

Alabama makes a quick midweek trip to Starkville, Miss., to take on Mississippi State Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. CT live on the SEC Network
The match will be the fifth televised match of the season for the Crimson Tide
Alabama owns a seven-match winning streak in the series against Mississippi State, stretching back to 2016
The Tide has lost just four of the 25 sets played during that streak, which includes three sweeps
Alabama has not played Mississippi State on the road since Nov. 16, 2018
The Tide ranks fourth in the SEC in aces with 115, averaging 1.35 per set, while Abby Marjama leads the league with 33 and a 0.52-per-set average

71st Meeting (53-17)
- in Tuscaloosa: 27-5 | in Starkville: 19-11 | at Neutral Sites: 7-1
Current Streak: Alabama +7
Last Meeting: Feb. 27, 2021 – Tuscaloosa, Ala. – W, 3-1
Last Meeting in Starkville: Nov. 16, 2018 – W, 3-0

Alabama volleyball fell in a pair of matches against Georgia last weekend in Tuscaloosa, 3-1 and 3-0
The Crimson Tide gutted out a 30-28 win in set one of the opening match against the Bulldogs, its highest-scoring set in SEC play and tied for the highest all season
Abby Marjama led the team in kills in both matches, including a season-high 19 on Saturday
Brooke Slusser's 39 assists in the first matchup is her second-highest total of the season and her highest in a four-set match
Laila Smith stuffed a season-high three blocks in each of the two matches last weekend

In Sunday's match at South Carolina, senior Abby Marjama earned her 1,000th career kill
She entered the match 13 shy of the mark, surpassing it in the third set and ultimately finishing with 16 to put her career total at 1,0003
After two seasons at UC Irvine, she joined the Crimson Tide last year and posted a career-best 285 kills over 22 matches
She has 157 kill so far this season, averaging 2.60 per set

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Alabama is slated to appear six times against SEC opponents on the ESPN family of networks
Every match, whether televised or not, will also be streamed like on the SEC Network Plus, available at WatchESPN.com or on the ESPN app

2021 Televised Matches