Nov. 15, 2014

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THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - No. 23 Kansas State battled back from two sets down to take a 22-25, 16-25, 25-18, 25-19, 15-9 victory over Baylor at the Ferrell Center Saturday night. Baylor hit .319 through the first two sets, but hit just .121 over the final three sets in the loss.

K-State (21-6, 8-5) hit just .123 through the first two sets but hit .303 over the final three sets to complete the rally against the Bears (14-14, 4-9). The Wildcats closed the match in dominant fashion picking up 14 of their 15 points in the final set via the kill, with just one attacking error.

Andie Malloy and Katie Brand each had their 17th double-double of the season for their respective teams, which leads all Big 12 players. Malloy had 21 kills and 14 digs for the Bears; Brand had 45 assists and 11 digs while coming up two kills shy of a triple-double with eight for the Wildcats.

HIGHLIGHTS
? Andie Malloy had 21 kills (.229) and 14 digs along with two service aces and two blocks in the loss for Baylor. It was her Big-12 leading 17th double-double of the season.
? Amy Rosenbaum had 54 assists, four kills and five digs. It marked the 10th time this season that she passed the 50-assists mark. She passed the 2,000-career assists mark with her 29th and she'll enter Wednesday's match with Texas with 2,025.
? Katie Staiger had 15 kills (.250) and three digs in the loss. Staiger's first kill of the match gave her 300 for her career.
? Hope Ogden started at libero in place of the injured Jana Brusek and had 19 digs, which leaves her six digs shy of 1,000 for her career.
? Thea Munch Soegaard had 12 digs reaching double-digits for the seventh time this season and seventh in the last 10 matches. She had one kill, which gave her 450 for her career.
? Adrien Richburg had 10 kills and her first nine came without an attacking error.
? Tola Itiola had four blocks in the loss (two solo).

STAT OF THE MATCH I
.591 - Kansas State hit .591 in the final set of the match with 14 kills and just one error on 22 attempts.

THEY SAID IT
Baylor Head Coach Jim Barnes on Baylor's performance...
"We hit the ball out. If we would just keep the ball in the court we'd win the game. On the first two sets we did a good job of taking care of the ball, and we are a very talented team. But, when we hit the ball out, we miss our shots, and that's what happened on sets three, four, and five. We just hit too many balls out. Basically, that's what we've been working on in the past month. As long as we hit the ball in we win. If we hit it out, we lose. And, tonight we played two really good sets where we kept the ball in play. But we had three really bad ones of hitting it out. The girls fight hard, but we just had too many errors."

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor takes on No. 5 Texas Wednesday at 7 p.m., and the match will be televised on Fox Sports Southwest and Fox College Sports Pacific.