WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Behind Purdue's most efficient offensive performance in an NCAA match, the No. 3 seeded Boilermaker volleyball team swept Fairfield, 3-0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-12) in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament.
Purdue (22-8, 15-5 Big Ten) advances to the Second Round, where it will face the No. 6 seed Marquette (21-10, 16-2 Big East) at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN+. The teams faced earlier this season in Lawrence, Kansas, in a thrilling five-set victory for Purdue and will meet in Holloway for the NCAA Second Round for the first time since 2019 (W, 3-1).
Not only was the team's .478 hitting clip vs. Fairfield a program record in an NCAA match, it set a season-high and marked the most efficient match for Purdue since 2019.
After matching a career-high .500 attack % at Michigan State last week, Eva Hudson picked up where she left off, besting her career-high with a .556 attack % with 16 kills and one error on 27 swings. It was the second straight match the unanimous All-Big Ten First Team honoree committed just one error in the match.
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Purdue (22-8, 15-5 Big Ten) advances to the Second Round, where it will face the No. 6 seed Marquette (21-10, 16-2 Big East) at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN+. The teams faced earlier this season in Lawrence, Kansas, in a thrilling five-set victory for Purdue and will meet in Holloway for the NCAA Second Round for the first time since 2019 (W, 3-1).
Not only was the team's .478 hitting clip vs. Fairfield a program record in an NCAA match, it set a season-high and marked the most efficient match for Purdue since 2019.
After matching a career-high .500 attack % at Michigan State last week, Eva Hudson picked up where she left off, besting her career-high with a .556 attack % with 16 kills and one error on 27 swings. It was the second straight match the unanimous All-Big Ten First Team honoree committed just one error in the match.
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- The last time Purdue hit as efficiently was in 2019, when the team posted the second-highest hitting % in program history with a .548% clip vs. A&M Corpus Christi
- Purdue has won the last 12 consecutive sets and have won 18 sets and dropped just three over the last six matches.
- Chloe Chicoine came just shy of setting a career-high attack % and reaching a double-double, ending the night with a .448 clip (15-2-29), nine digs and two aces.
- Maddie Schermerhorn totaled 13 digs in the match to lead the team and added six assists and an ace.
- Freshmen Kenna Wollard and Lizzie Carr set career-highs after errorless performances led to a .556 attack % (5-0-9) for Wollard and a .500 attack % for Carr (3-0-6).
- Purdue improved their hitting % and sideout in every set, ending the match with an 84% sideout and a .545 hitting % in Set 3.
- Fairfield stayed within striking distance for the first half of the set, until Purdue went on a 8-2 run to close out the first set and never looked back.
- The first set included an errorless seven kills by Chloe Chicoine (.571%) and five by Eva Hudson (.478%).