Privateers Break From Conference Play, Face Tulane

NEW ORLEANS AT TULANE
TUESDAY- 7 PM
DEVLIN FIELDHOUSE | NEW ORLEANS, LA.

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FIRST SERVE
The New Orleans Privateers volleyball team (8-7, 0-2 Southland) take a short break from conference play when they run up against the Tulane Green Wave (6-7, 1-1 American) on Tuesday at Devlin Fieldhouse. The match is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.
 
The Privateers suffered losses to Houston Baptist and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the first weekend of Southland play. New Orleans fell behind early in the first two sets against Houston Baptist before picking up the third set. The Huskies then took the fourth set to secure the win. The Privateers lost in three sets to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Saturday.
 
Blessing Dunn enters the week with 99 kills in her first collegiate season. Dunn led the Privateers in the kill department on Saturday for the fifth time this season and has recorded double digit kills on four separate occasions. Her match high was 15 in the second match of the season against Presbyterian.
 
This is the third of a five-match road trip for the Privateers. New Orleans continues to lead the way in the Southland in aces (2.09 per set) and four players are in the top ten in aces (Dunn-6th, Samantha Uline-8th, Celeste Ramirez-9th, Shaylene Reimer-10th).
 
QUICK HITS
-Celeste Ramirez has two matches with five kills this season and has successfully recorded kills on 24 of 50 attempts.
-The Privateers have played Tulane the most of any opponent in program history. This will be the 84^th meeting between the schools. The Green Wave lead the series 60-23 and have won 11 straight.
-Saturday marked the second time this season an opponent hit over .400 against the Privateers when Texas A&M-Corpus Christi recorded a .402 attack percentage.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
Tulane has been on an up and down ride through their first 13 matches of the season. The Green Wave are coming in off a split weekend against Tulsa and SMU. After defeating Tulsa in five sets, Tulane fell in three sets to SMU.
 
Sinisa Momic is in his seventh season at the helm. In his first year (2009), he guided the Green Wave to the NCAA Tournament. Momic would bring Tulane to the C-USA Championship game in 2013 and guided the school to a 28-4 record along with the largest win turnaround in the NCAA from 2012-13.
 
Tea Juric leads the team in kills with 183. Juric led the Green Wave in kills in 2014 and was also named Second Team-All Louisiana. The Green Wave are ranked in the top five in their 11-team conference in one category. Tulane's 2.20 blocks per set rank third.  This season, Tulane has gone 1-1 against Southland schools, defeating Nicholls and losing to Sam Houston State.