Match 31: No. 17 Utah (21-9, 13-6) at Colorado (13-16, 5-14)
Saturday, November 30 | 11 a.m. MT
Boulder | CU Events Center
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FIRST SERVE
No. 17 Utah volleyball will play its final match of the regular season at Colorado this Saturday, November 29 at 11 a.m.
With a win over the Buffalos, Utah will finish the Pac-12 14-6 marking the most wins since joining the conference and their highest finish in third.
Earlier in the season, the Utes swept Colorado.
With one game in the regular season left, Utah is 16th in the RPI and 17 in the AVCA Coaches Poll.
20 Wins
Utah earned its 20th win of the season by defeating No. 24 Cal on Sunday in four sets. It's the first time the team has had 20 wins since the 2017 season and its the 18th time in head coach
Beth Launiere's tenure that she's led Utah to at least 20 wins.
Along with having 20 wins, Utah is 13-6 in the Pac-12 and sitting in third place. With one more win, they will finish the season with the most Pac-12 wins they've had since joining the conference in 2011 as well as their highest finish in third.
DOEHRMANN MOVES UP RECORD BOOKS
Brianna Doehrmann has moved up the record books this season after posting eight 20-dig matches this season.
After having 21 digs against Stanford, Doehrmann moved up in second spot for career digs in program history and is approaching the top spot in Utah program history only 10 digs away from breaking it, currently sitting at 1,599 career digs.
In 2018, she became the 11th player in program history and 164th player in Pac-12 history that reached the 1,000-career digs mark.
500 Kills
For the second season in a row,
Dani Drews has eclipsed 500 kills in a single-season. There are only two players in program history that have had over 500 kills in two seasons during their careers and Drews now joins
Adora Anae in being the second.
Drews has stepped up when it mattered most this season having 13 20-kill matches and two 30-kill matches Against USC, she set a program record during the rally-scoring era with 33 kills while hitting .348. The Utes needed every one of them as they came back from a 2-1 deficit to get a big five-set victory over the Trojans on the road.
Earlier in the season, she surpassed the 1,000-career kill mark against Cal becoming the 17th player in program history to reach the mark.
Drews leads the Pac-12 in kills with 560 and is second in the conference averaging 4.71 kills per set in Pac-12 matches.
She's also coming up on a single-season record as she is just 32 kills from matching the previous mark of 592.