Vanderbilt (6-16, 2-11 SEC) at Alabama (11-12, 3-10 SEC)
Friday, Nov. 14 • 6 p.m. • SEC Network+
Foster Auditorium • Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Live Stats • Match Notes
Vanderbilt (6-16, 2-11 SEC) at Mississippi State (16-7, 6-7 SEC)
Sunday, Nov. 16 • 2 p.m. • SEC Network
Newell-Grissom Building • Starkville, Miss.
Live Stats
NEXT UP
• Vanderbilt volleyball hits the road for its final regular season matches of the 2025 season, playing Alabama at Foster Auditorium on Friday a 6 p.m. on SEC Network+ and Mississippi State at the Newell-Grissom Building on Sunday at 2 p.m. on SEC Network
THE LAST TIME OUT
• To close out the Commodore volleyball team’s home schedule, Vanderbilt set a program attendance record with 4,960 fans at Memorial
• Vandy fell 3-0 to No. 19 Tennessee as the Volunteers hit .449 on the day.
• Jackie Moore recorded 13 kills on 21 attempts with zero errors for a .619 hitting percentage on Friday night at Memorial Gymnasium.
• Moore’s 13 kills led the Dores’ offensive efforts, followed by nine kills from Mia Soerensen, who hit at a .368 clip
• Vandy’s setters Isabella Bareford and Taryn DeWese contributed 19 and 13 assists, respectively
SCOUTING THE TIDE
• The Commodores and Crimson Tide met once during the 1979 SEC Volleyball Tournament in a match, which Alabama won 2-0
• Alabama is coming off a 3-0 loss at Oklahoma and is 11-2 overall, 3-10 in conference play during the 2025 season
• The Tide is ranked second in the SEC in service aces per set (1.67)
• Hannah Parant leads the conference in aces per set (0.57) and ranks 10th in the SEC in assists per set (8.92)
• Trinity Stanger is averaging 3.93 digs per set, which ranks sixth in the SEC this season
• Head coach Rashinda Reed is in her fourth season at the helm of the Alabama volleyball team
• Alabama welcomed several new faces to its coaching staff for the 2025 season, including assistant coaches Jake Barreau, Nathan Matthews and Ray Lewis
• Lewis and Vanderbilt’s Anders Nelson and Azhani Tealer worked together and won a national championship at Kentucky where Lewis was the technical coordinator in 2020-21
SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
• Mississippi State will host RV Missouri on Friday night before welcoming Vanderbilt for a Sunday afternoon matchup
• The Bulldogs are coming off a 3-1 win at Arkansas and own a 16-7 overall, 6-7 SEC record this season
• Mississippi State ranks second in the SEC in digs per set (14.42), and McKenna Yates is No. 3 in the conference, averaging 4.09 digs per set
• Julie Darty Dennis, now in her eighth year as head coach, led Mississippi State to the program’s first NCAA tournament berth in 2021
• Lindley Mangelson is ranked top 5 in the SEC in points (5.10) and kills (4.49) per set
• Two Bulldogs, Noella Obi and Gha’Naye Whitfield-Moss, are currently top 10 in the conference in blocks per set, averaging 1.26 and 1.18, respectively
• Cayley Hanson, averaging .38 aces per set, is ranked No. 3 in the SEC
• Darty Dennis and Vanderbilt opposite Syndey Conley both hail from Oviedo, Florida
WE WANT MOORE
• Moore leads the Commodores in kills (254), blocks (81) and hitting efficiency (.362)
• Moore also leads all SEC middles in kills; ranked seventh overall in hitting efficiency
• Moore is ranked 11th nationally across all divisions, eighth in NCAA DI in career hitting percentage at .383
• The senior has set career-highs in kills three times this season with 17 vs. Kansas, 19 at Auburn and 23 vs. LSU and Missouri
• Moore’s career-best 23 kills vs. LSU and Missouri are the most kills by a Commodore this season
• Moore recorded season-best blocks in back-to-back matches with seven vs. LSU and eight vs. Ole Miss
THE SEC VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT RETURNS
• The SEC announced in September that the SEC Volleyball Tournament would be returning for the first time since 2005
• The 2025 tournament will take place Nov. 21-25 in Savannah, Georgia, at Enmarket Arena
• Vanderbilt participated in the first-ever conference volleyball tournament during its inaugural season in 1979
