AUBURN, Ala.— The Auburn volleyball team continues its season-opening road swing with a Tuesday night trek to Tallahassee for a match with Florida State. First serve is set for 6 p.m. CT/7 p.m. ET at Tully Gym on the FSU campus.
Tuesday's match is part of the SEC/ACC Showdown at the Net. All 16 SEC teams will face an opponent from the ACC on Tuesday or Wednesday.
ON THE AIR
›› Tuesday's match will be broadcast live on ACC Network. Anne Marie Anderson and Nicole Branagh will call the action.
LAST TIME OUT
›› Auburn fought hard in a pair of matches last week in Madison, Wisconsin, as part of the Allstate Big Ten/SEC Volleyball Challenge Week. The Tigers dropped a four-set decision to No. 11 Minnesota before falling in straight sets to No. 5 Wisconsin.
›› Against Minnesota, Lauren Dreves and Belle Patrick each picked up their second double-doubles of the season. Dreves had a season-high 19 kills along with 18 digs, and Patrick finished with 11 kills and a career-high 14 digs.
›› In the Wisconsin match, Dreves had 14 kills and Patrick added nine. Emma Moore made her first appearance since the 2024 season and recorded a team-best three blocks in the third set.
SCOUTING THE SEMINOLES
›› Florida State is 3-2 on the season. The Seminoles went 1-1 last week, winning a five-setter over No. 16 Kansas Friday night before falling at Lipscomb in four sets Saturday.
›› Kyleene Filimaua leads FSU with 3.41 kills/set while hitting .246. Delaney Ewing hits a team-best .449 for the year with 2.45 kills/set. Nenu Kpea is the Seminoles' top blocker with 22 on the year (1.00/set).
›› Last season, Florida State went 16-13 overall and 10-10 in ACC play.
›› Lindsay Allman is in her first season as FSU head coach. She spent the last four seasons as the Seminoles' associate head coach and was head coach at Indiana State from 2017-21.
AUBURN-FLORIDA STATE SERIES
›› This will be the 21st meeting between Auburn and Florida State accounted for in Auburn's records. The Tigers are 5-14-1 in the 20 previous meetings.
›› The Tigers are 1-7 in previous trips to Tallahassee.
›› The teams split a pair of home-and-home matches last season with Auburn winning 3-0 at home and FSU earning a 3-1 win in Tallahassee.
LAST TIME VS. FLORIDA STATE
FSU 3, Auburn 1 (Sept. 14, 2025, at Tallahassee)
›› Senior libero Alexis Dacosta managed to track down a career-best 25 digs but it wasn’t enough to run down Florida State as the Seminoles bested the Tigers in four sets, 3-1 (21-25, 25-18, 25-22, 25-14) at Tully Gym.
›› Lauren Dreves (16) and Liz Markovska (14) both had double-digit kills to lead the Auburn attack.
AGAINST THE ACC
›› Auburn is 39-58-1 all-time against current members of the ACC. The Tigers have faced 17 of the 18 ACC members in their volleyball history, Stanford being the only exception.
›› Tuesday's match is Auburn's only encounter with the ACC this season. Last year, Auburn played four matches against the ACC, going 2-2 against Louisville, Virginia and Florida State.
RIGHT WHERE SHE LEFT OFF
›› Junior outside Lauren Dreves continues to live up to her preseason All-SEC billing, averaging 4.76 kills/set through the Tigers' first five matches. That total ranks third among SEC hitters with her 81 kills in 17 sets.
›› Dreves picked up her first double-double of the season and 15th of her career with 19 kills and 14 digs in the win over ETSU on Aug. 28. She added another with 18 kills and 19 digs vs. Minnesota on Sept. 2.
›› Dreves also hit a pair of milestones with her 500th career dig in the season-opener vs. Liberty Aug. 28 and her 100th block vs. Minnesota Sept. 2..
UP NEXT
›› It’s a quick turnaround as the Tigers head to Chicago this weekend for the DePaul Invitational. Auburn will face Illinois-Chicago, Central Michigan and DePaul in the three-day event.