#9 Bruins Host Oregon State, #19 Oregon

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Wednesday, Nov. 16
Oregon State at #9 UCLA
8 p.m.
Pauley Pavilion
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Friday, Nov. 18
#19 Oregon at #9 UCLA
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John Wooden Center
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#9 UCLA RETURNS HOME TO HOST OSU, #19 OREGON
The ninth-ranked Bruins begin their penultimate week of Pac-12 play on Wednesday when they host Oregon State at Pauley Pavilion at 8 p.m. UCLA then heads over to the John Wooden Center to entertain #19 Oregon on Friday at 7 p.m. Both matches will feature free live audio on UCLABruins.com. In addition, Wednesday's matchup will be televised on Pac-12 Los Angeles.

WHAT'S NEXT
The Bruins currently sit as co-leaders in the Pac-12 with Washington, and the two teams will square off in Seattle next Wednesday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. That match will air on Pac-12 Los Angeles. Then after the Thanksgiving holiday, UCLA hosts USC at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 5 p.m. in its final home match of the regular season. That match will also air on Pac-12 L.A. Prior to the contest, the Bruins will honor their five seniors, Jordan Anderson, Haley Lawless, Claire Felix, Jennie Frager and Taylor Formico. On Sunday, Nov. 27, ESPNU will air the one-hour NCAA Tournament Selection Show at 6 p.m.

BRUINS IN THE POLLS
A week after falling from ninth to 13th in the AVCA Top 25 Coaches Poll, the Bruins moved back up to ninth in the latest rankings following their victories at California and Stanford. Six UCLA opponents are in the Top 25 (#8 Washington, #11 San Diego, #12 Stanford, #14 Hawai'i, #16 Utah and #19 Oregon), while Washington State (#26), USC (#28), Arizona (#29) and Missouri State (#32) are all receiving votes.

VAN WINDEN NAMED PAC-12 FOW FOR SECOND TIME
Torrey Van Winden has been named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for the second time this season, as announced by the conference on Monday. It is the third weekly league honor for Van Winden, who was also named FOW on Oct. 24, as well as Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 17.

Van Winden helped the Bruins win at Stanford on Saturday to post UCLA's first season sweep of the Cardinal since 2011. The freshman tied a career high with 19 kills on a .381 hitting percentage, adding eight digs, four blocks and two service aces. Last Thursday at California, Van Winden was one kill and one dig shy of a double-double, notching nine kills and nine digs to go with a .389 percentage and three blocks.

Van Winden is third on the team with 3.04 kills and 3.50 points per set, adding a .290 hitting percentage, 1.68 digs per set, 0.67 blocks per set and six service aces. Her numbers have been even better in Pac-12 play, with a team-best 3.19 kps and 3.67 pps to go with a .302 percentage and 1.87 dps. On the season, Van Winden has 12 double-figure kills matches, five double-figure digs contests and three double-doubles.

The Bruins have won six Pac-12 weekly honors this season, with Van Winden providing half of those. Senior Taylor Formico has earned a pair of Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors (Oct. 17 and 31), while senior Jennie Frager was the conference's Offensive POW on Aug. 29. Since 2011, when the conference started handing out Offensive, Defensive and Freshman of the Week honors, UCLA has won 11 Offensive, seven Defensive and six Freshman awards (24 total). The Bruins have 85 all-time Pac-12 weekly awards.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS
Junior Reily Buechler surpassed the 1,000-kill mark with her first kill of the third set at Arizona State on Nov. 5, becoming the 28th Bruin to reach that plateau. She has 1,029 for her career, ranking 27th in school history ... senior Taylor Formico moved into third place on UCLA's all-time digs list against Colorado on Oct. 28 and now has 1,525 for her Bruin career. She trails only Chrissie Zartman (2,064) and Lainey Gera (2,009). Formico's overall career total is now at 2,317 (792 at UCSB in 2012) ... senior Jordan Anderson's 3.86 kills per set would rank her seventh in Bruin history ... senior Claire Felix's .335 hitting percentage currently ranks tied for sixth in school history.

TEAM NOTES
UCLA started its season at 7-0, its best start since 2006 when it began with 20 consecutive victories. The previous two times the Bruins opened a year with at least six straight wins, they have reached the third weekend of the NCAA Tournament (2006 - National Semifinals; 2011 - National Champions) ... keeping with the 2011 parallel, UCLA swept its season series with Stanford for the first time since that championship campaign ... Oct. 9 against Arizona marked the only time this season that the Bruins lost when holding their opponent under a .200 hitting percentage (15-1 record) ... the Arizona loss was also the only time the Bruins were defeated when winning the hitting battle (21-1) ... UCLA is 13-0 when either leading or tying its opponent in blocks ... the Bruins are 20-1 when winning the third set, but 1-4 when losing the stanza after intermission, with their lone victory coming against Colorado (Oct. 28).

PLAYER NOTES
Senior Jordan Anderson recorded her 20th double-figure kills match of the season at Stanford last Saturday when she had 13. She is averaging 3.24 kills per set over her last eight contests, notching a season-best 18 versus Colorado on Oct. 28. Anderson also had nine digs in last week's victories and is averaging 1.11 per set this year ... sophomore Kyra Rogers started both matches last weekend and posted eight kills in seven sets. She is averaging 0.88 kps in 16 contests (34 sets) ... junior Reily Buechler has double figures in kills in five of her last six, averaging 3.59 per set during that span. Along with her 26 kills last week, she added 17 digs at Cal and Stanford. Buechler leads the Bruins with 17 service aces, including a career-best three at Arizona State on Nov. 5 ... freshman Torrey Van Winden has at least seven kills in 13 matches in a row, including tying a career high with 19 at Stanford, while collecting at least eight digs in six straight. During the last six contests, she is averaging 3.32 kills and 3.27 digs per set, adding a .289 hitting percentage and five service aces. Van Winden has hit over .350 in three in a row and four of her last five ... freshman Kylie Miller continues to serve tough, having tallied five aces over her last three contests. She notched her fourth double-double of her career with 27 assists and 11 digs against Colorado. Miller's season high in assists came versus Washington State (Sept. 23) when she had 35, while her best in digs was at Colorado (13) on Oct. 2 ... sophomore Zana Muno had double figures in digs in seven in a row from Oct. 9-29, averaging 3.34 dps during that span. She set a new season best with 23 digs at Oregon (Oct. 12) ... senior Claire Felix had a great weekend at the net in the Bay Area, recording a career-best eight blocks at California and five at Stanford. She posted a pair of block solos in each of those contests. Offensively, Felix is hitting .321 over her last seven matches ... senior Jennie Frager has 12 matches this season with double figures in kills after posting 10 at Stanford with a .320 percentage and four blocks. Her career high in kills came against Colorado when she had 16 with just one hitting error in 29 attempts for a .517 percentage. Defensively, Frager has at least four blocks on 17 occasions ... senior Taylor Formico, two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week, has at least 20 digs in 12 contests to go with double figures in digs in all 26 matches this season, 48 in a row dating back to last year and 114 in her career. Formico hasn't just been chipping in defensively though. She recorded her second double-double with 20 digs and a career-best 11 assists against Utah (Oct. 29). Formico also posted her seventh kill of the season at Cal and has an ace in three of her last four ... junior Ryann Chandler posted her team-best ninth double-double at Arizona (Nov. 4) with 14 assists and 14 digs. She has at least six digs in six in a row, averaging 2.18 dps during that stretch. Chandler is also second on the team in aces, including a career-best three versus Stanford (Oct. 21).

BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL AND PAC-12 RANKINGS
Through matches of Nov. 13, UCLA ranks sixth in digs per set (17.93), 10th in assists per set (13.55), 18th in kills per set (14.33) and 36th in opponent hitting percentage (.168). Individually, senior Taylor Formico is 27th in dps (5.09). Among Pac-12 teams, the Bruins are first in dps and second in opponent hitting, aps and kps. Formico is second among Pac-12 players in dps, while senior Jennie Frager is third in hitting (.357) and eighth in blocks per set (1.14). Senior Claire Felix is sixth in hitting (.342) and junior Ryann Chandler is sixth in aps (7.85).

SCOUTING THE OREGON STATE BEAVERS
Oregon State (11-16, 4-12 Pac-12) has won three of its last five matches, including a five-set home victory against Colorado on Nov. 12. The Beavers are hitting .210 as a team, averaging 13.00 kills, 1.03 aces, 14.95 digs and 2.24 blocks per set. Three players are posting at least 2.00 kps, led by junior Mary-Kate Marshall's 4.05. She is also first with 23 aces. Sophomore Lanesha Reagan is second with 3.30 kps and 2.65 dps, while senior Lila Toner is third at 2.42 kps. Sophomore McKenna Hollingsworth handles the setting duties and is averaging 8.43 assists per set. Sophomore Kayla Ellis is tops in dps (3.94), while freshman Serena Bruin is first with 1.00 bps.

THE MATCHUP: BRUINS VS. BEAVERS
UCLA has won 17 in a row against Oregon State and holds a 58-3 all-time edge in the series. The Bruins are 28-2 at home versus the Beavers. UCLA defeated OSU in Corvallis on Oct. 14 in three sets. Torrey Van Winden led the Bruins with 14 kills, while Taylor Formico added 22 digs.

SCOUTING THE OREGON DUCKS
Oregon (18-7, 11-5 Pac-12) sits one match back of UCLA and Washington in the league standings, having won four of its last five. The Ducks are hitting .274 as a team with 14.37 kills, 1.14 aces, 16.07 digs and 2.35 blocks per set. Four players are averaging over 2.00 kps, led by sophomore Lindsey Vander Weide's 3.36. She is also first with 29 aces and second with 2.87 dps. Freshman Jolie Rasmussen is second at 2.70 kps, junior Taylor Agost is third (2.60) and freshman Ronika Stone is fourth (2.13 kps) and first with 0.96 bps. Junior Maggie Scott (6.72 assists per set) and sophomore August Raskie (5.34) are splitting the setting duties, while senior Amanda Benson is first on the squad with 5.21 dps.

THE MATCHUP: BRUINS VS. DUCKS
UCLA leads the all-time series with Oregon 54-11 following a five-set victory in Eugene on Oct. 12. Torrey Van Winden had 19 kills and 12 digs, Jordan Anderson added 17 kills, Ryann Chandler posted 30 assists and 13 digs and Taylor Formico recorded 29 digs. The Bruins are 29-3 all-time at home against the Ducks, but dropped the most recent matchup, a five-set loss last Nov. 12.

FORMICO NAMED PAC-12 DPOW FOR SECOND TIME
Senior Taylor Formico was named Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week for the second time this season, as announced on Oct. 31.

Formico posted 27 digs against Colorado (Oct. 28) to move into third on UCLA's all-time list, also tallying six assists and two service aces. A night later, Formico tallied the second double-double of her Bruin career with 20 digs and a personal-best 11 assists against Utah, adding a dump-kill.

VAN WINDEN NAMED PAC-12 FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
Torrey Van Winden earned her second Pac-12 weekly honor in as many weeks on Oct. 24, receiving league Freshman of the Week accolades. Van Winden recorded 31 kills (3.88 per set), a .455 hitting percentage and 12 digs (1.50 per set) in two Bruin victories over Stanford and California.

Van Winden tied a season and career best with 19 kills against #14 Stanford on Oct. 21, helping the Bruins to their first victory over the Cardinal since 2011 (seven matches). She hit .417, adding nine digs and the first service ace of her career. On Oct. 23 versus California, the freshman posted 12 kills and a season-best .526 hitting percentage with just two errors in 19 attempts.

VAN WINDEN, FORMICO EARN PAC-12 WEEKLY HONORS
The Bruins picked up a pair of Pac-12 Conference weekly honors on Oct. 17, as freshman Torrey Van Winden was named Offensive Player of the Week, while senior Taylor Formico earned Defensive Player of the Week accolades.

Van Winden led the Bruins in kills in both victories, recording 33 (4.12 per set) to go with 18 digs (2.25 per set) and six blocks in eight sets. At #16 Oregon (Oct. 12), Van Winden had a match- and season-best 19 kills with a .341 hitting percentage. She added 12 digs for her first double-double, adding three blocks, including two solos. Van Winden came back two days later to again lead the Bruins in kills with 14 versus Oregon State. She produced a .444 percentage with only two miscues in 27 attempts to go with six digs and three blocks.

Formico posted 51 digs (6.38 per set) in eight sets. She had 29 digs against Oregon, adding an ace, while recording 22 at Oregon State. In four of Formico's eight sets, she registered at least eight digs, including eight in the second set in Eugene and 10 in the third, both Bruin set victories. The senior had eight digs in each of the first two sets in Corvallis.

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