HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. – Northern Kentucky volleyball continues its 2020-21 campaign with a road trip to Wisconsin, where it will take to the court against Green Bay on Feb. 15 and 16. Match times are slated for 4 p.m. (ET)\3 p.m. (CT) on Monday and 2 p.m. (ET)/1 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday.
 
Game Information
Northern Kentucky University Norse (2-2 Overall, 2-2 Horizon League)
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix (2-4 Overall, 2-4 Horizon League)
Monday, Feb. 15 – 4 p.m. (ET)\3 p.m. (CT)
Tuesday,  Feb. 16 – 2 p.m. (ET)/1 p.m. (CT)
Green Bay, Wis. | Kress Center (4,000)
ESPN+ Links: Game 1 | Game 2 (Not Yet Available)
Stats: Live Stats
 
Quick Hitters
• NKU took a pair of wins off of Cleveland State in Regents Hall to move to 2-2 on the year.
• Northern Kentucky heads to The Badger State for a two-game set at Green Bay.
• NKU is 7-8 all-time versus GB, but the Phoenix have won the last four meetings and 8-of-10 in the series.
• NKU ranks 14th in the country in attacks per set (39.93) and 45th in digs per set (17.07).
• NKU is coming off of a 19-13 season in which it won the Horizon League Tournament championship and played in its first-ever NCAA Tournament.
• NKU also earned its first top-50 RPI finish, checking in at No. 49 in the final rankings of the 2019 season. In the first ranking of the 2019 season, NKU was 43rd, which is its highest ever.
• NKU had 423 days between matches, lasting from Dec. 6, 2019 until its match versus Wright State on Feb. 1, 2021. It will have waited an even lengthier 456 days between home contests (Nov. 10, 2019-Feb. 8, 2021).
• The Norse were picked to finish second in the #HLVB Preseason Poll for the second-straight year, garnering three first-place votes and 111 points, one behind favorite Wright State.
• S/RS Miranda Wucherer opened the 2020-21 campaign with back-to-back double-doubles against Wright State, tallying 24 assists and 11 digs in match one and 19 assists and 10 digs in match two.
• As an encore in week No. 2, Wucherer earned Horizon League Player of the Week honors after averaging 3.00 kps, 5.88 aps, 2.00 dps, 0.88 bps and hitting .300 as well as recording a triple-double against Cleveland State. The triple-double is the only one in the league this season and she is one of just six players nationally to register one so far this year.
• All-Horizon League honoree OH Anna Brinkmann that posted a 10-kill, 10-dig double-double in NKU's season-opener against Wright State and went for 14 kills and 10 digs versus CSU.
• Brinkmann was also an AVCA All-North Region honoree, the second Norse to earn the honor.
• L/DS Ashton Terrill is coming off a campaign in which she earned her second-straight postseason accolade. She was named an all-league honorable mention in 2019 after being a first-team performer in 2018.
• Terrill is working her way up the Norse annals, scooping 1,685 digs in her career to rank 3rd all-time at NKU. She is 44 away from No. 2 all-time.
• Terrill's 5.21 dps rank 38th in the country.
• MB/OPP Abby Kanakry was both a Horizon League All-Freshman and All-Tournament honoree in 2019 after averaging 2.38 kills per set behind a .274 hitting percentage. She was also stout at the net with 0.69 blocks per set.
• Kanakry has nine aces on the year so far and ranks 38th in the country at 0.64 aces per set.
• OH Reilly Briggs returns for her second season with the Norse. Briggs was a #HLVB All-Freshman Team performer last year and is 69th in the nation in attacks (10.82) per set so far this season.
• MB/OPP Kaelin Gentile brought the energy and firepower against Cleveland State, registering 28 kills (3.50 kps) and hitting .300.
 
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