Sooners Home to Host Baylor for Season Finale

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Tuesday, Nov. 23 / 5 p.m. CT / BSOK / Wednesday, Nov. 24 / 4 p.m. CT / soonersports.tv / McCasland Field House / Norman, Okla.

NORMAN — The Oklahoma volleyball team is back at McCasland Field House for the final time in 2022 season Tuesday and Wednesday when it hosts No. 7 Baylor. The Sooners and Bears will close out the regular season just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Tuesday's match will begin at 5 p.m. CT on Bally Sports Oklahoma. Wednesday's season finale will begin at 4 p.m. CT on SS.tv.

MATCH DAY STORYLINES

SENIOR NIGHT
Tuesday's match will also be senior night with Paige Anderson, Aysia Harty, Sabrina Simms, Olivia LittleJim and Abby Butler all being honored in a post-match ceremony.

Anderson has been a four-year starter for the Sooners. A two-time All-Big 12 Second Team selection, she has appeared in 420 sets and has tallied 847 kills and 388 blocks in her career as a Sooner. Anderson was named the 2019 Nike Invitational MVP and named to the 2018 Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team.

Harty has appeared in 95 matches and over 360 sets in her four year career. A defensive specialist, Harty has recorded 613 digs, 58 assists and 34 service aces. Simms has appeared in 17 matches and 39 sets in her four-year career. After missing two seasons due to injury, Simms has appeared in 22 sets as a senior with 18 kills and 30 blocks.

Butler and LittleJim are only juniors but will be graduating early and ending their volleyball careers. Butler has appeared in 16 matches and 44 sets for the Sooners. She has tallied 46 blocks and 17 kills in her three year career. LittleJim has appeared in 49 matches and 169 sets over her three years as a Sooner. In her time at OU, she has tallied 341 digs, 96 kills, 23 blocks and 31 service aces. In 2021, she was named to the Gonzaga Invitational All-Tournament Team.

LAST TIME OUT
The Sooners dropped a pair of matches against No. 2 Texas, Nov. 11-12. The Sooners were downed by the league's best team in straight sets in both matches. OU was the only team to have off over the weekend.

MILESTONE WATCH
Multiple Sooners are closing in on milestones in the final week of the season. Peyton Dunn needs just 54 assists (27 per match) to reach 1,000 assists for the season. Dunn would become just the second freshman in the 25-point scoring era to reach the mark in. Her 1,000 assists would also place her eighth all-time.

Megan Wilson needs just 30 kills (15 per match) to reach the 400-kill mark. In the 25-point scoring era, Wilson would be just the seventh Sooner to achieve the feat in a single season and the first freshman. Wilson would be the first since Alyssa Enneking in 2018 to notch 400 kills in a season.

UPDATE THE RECORD BOOK
The 2021 team has already made a mark in the record books. Callie Kemohah's 29 digs in a four-set match against Mississippi State (Sept. 10) are tied for the most in program history. Kemohah is the third Sooner to achieve the mark. Paige Anderson's 20 solo blocks have her tied for fifth all-time for solo blocks in a single season. Megan Wilson's 16 solo blocks rank ninth all-time in program history for a single season mark.

Kemohah currently sits in a tie for eighth in aces for a season with 23 and tenth in digs in a season with 418. Anderson is tied for eighth all-time with teammate Kelsey Carrington (202) for blocks/set average with 1.24. Her 104 block assists are tied for eighth all-time. Wilson's 370 total kills ranks seventh all-time in a single season.

Anderson could also leave a mark in multiple career categories. The senior is one solo block away from the top 10. Her 388 block assists are eighth all-time and her 437 total blocks rank seventh all-time.

TIME FOR A BLOCK PARTY
As a team, the Sooners tied the program record for solo blocks in a four-set match with 7.0 against Lipscomb (Aug. 28). The Sooners set a new program record for solo blocks in a five-set match with 10.0 against Texas Tech (Oct. 14).

WILSON NAMED ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Freshman outside hitter Megan Wilson was named the Big 12 Rookie of the Week for the third time this season on Nov. 16
The Kingwood, Texas, native tallied 21 kills on the weekend against No. 2 Texas. Wilson averaged 3.50 kills/set against the Longhorns while also adding one service ace, two digs and one block. The freshman had 12 kills in Saturday's match against the Longhorns, her 22nd match of the season with double-digit kills.

THE SETTER, THE LIBERO AND THE OUTSIDE HITTER
The Sooners' trinity of Peyton Dunn, Callie Kemohah and Megan Wilson has been one of the best trios of freshmen in the Big 12 this season. The group combined for 10 weekly awards in 2021, helping OU to being the only school to win an award in all three categories.

Wilson was a four-time honoree earning three Rookie of the Week awards and one Offensive Player of the Week award. Wilson was the only freshman to earn an Offensive POW award in 2021 and became the first Sooner in program history to earn two awards in one week. Along with Dunn, who secured four Rookie of the Week awards, the duo won seven total awards in the Rookie OTW category. Kemohah picked up a pair of Defensive Player of the Week awards, the only freshman to do so.

EXCELLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
Nine members of the Oklahoma volleyball team were named 2021 Academic All-Big 12 selections

Seniors Paige Anderson, Aysia Harty, Sarah Sanders and Sabrina Simms, juniors Olivia LittleJim and Grace Talpash and sophomores Tyler Alcorn, Sam Anthony and Kelsey Carrington all earned first team recognition. Carrington and Sanders were both nominated with 4.0 GPAs.

Under fourth-year head coach Lindsey Gray-Walton, at least six Sooners have been honored each year during her tenure with 32 total athletes earning accolades. The nine athletes recognized in 2021 ties for the most under Gray-Walton.

Sanders was honored for the fourth time in her career. Harty earned her third career accolade, while LittleJim and Simms each earned their second honor. Talpash, Alcorn, Anthony and Carrington each earned their first career recognitions.

SIGNING DAY
Oklahoma volleyball head coach Lindsey Gray-Walton announced the addition of four student-athletes during the 2021-22 early signing period. Joining the Sooners for the 2022 season will be Chloe Kaminski, Morgan Perkins, Taylor Preston and Morgan Perkins.

The four-member class currently ranks No. 10 in PrepVolleyball.com's 2022 class rankings. The class is the No. 3 class in the Big 12, behind only Texas and Baylor. All four athletes are ranked in the Top 150 players by PrepVolleyball.com. Preston is currently ranked No. 20, Shelton is No. 59, Perkins is No. 64 and Kaminski is No. 85.

"As a whole this 2022 class, is dynamic and physical and tireless in their work ethic. Those are all the things that they're going to bring to the volleyball court and those are things that show up in their life. This group was resilient in the recruiting process in 2020 and 2021 when we experienced COVID. With social media, the way they were able to connect, it was so special to see the class recruit the class. And we feel as a staff right now that all the things are aligning."

BATTLING IN THE BIG 12
Multiple Sooners hold top-10 rankings in the current conference standings. Megan Wilson ranks fourth in the league with 3.70 kills/set and first with 370 total kills. Savannah Davison ranks sixth with 3.39 kills/set and fifth with 298 total kills. Peyton Dunn ranks eighth with 9.37 assists/set and third with 946 total assists. Paige Anderson is second with 1.24 blocks/set and total blocks with 124. Callie Kemohah sits in third with 4.18 digs/set and second with 418 total digs.

In conference games only, Anderson ranks second in the league with 1.23 blocks/set and 70 total blocks. Davison ranks seventh with 3.34 kills/set while Wilson ranks ninth in league play with 3.29 kills/set. Dunn's 8.98 assists/set rank eighth and her 512 total assists puts her in seventh. Kemohah ranks third in the league with 4.29 digs/set and second with 240 total.

SCOUTING BAYLOR
Baylor is currently No. 7 in the AVCA Coaches Poll and coming off a pair of sweeps over Iowa State. The Bears are 18-5 overall and 12-2 in conference play. Baylor's only conference losses came to Texas Tech in five sets and to then No. 1 Texas in straight sets. The Bears are the only team to have defeated Texas this season.

Baylor has the kills leader in the Big 12 as Yossiana Pressley leads the league with 4.52 kills/set and 375 kills in 83 sets. Setter Hannah Sedwick ranks third in the league with 9.86 assists/set. Avery Skinner leads the conference with the most kills in a five-set match this season with 27 against Texas Tech. Sedwick notched the most assists in a four-set match this season with 58 against Kansas.

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