TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State volleyball closes the 2026 regular season on the road, as the Sycamores travel to Evansville for a Tuesday night midwek match before wrapping up the conference slate Saturday evening at Southern Illinois.
 
Tuesday's match will air on ESPN+ with a 7 p.m. ET (6 p.m. CT) first serve. Saturday's match will not be broadcast and will start at 6 p.m.
 
Last Time Out
Indiana State recorded 10 aces Saturday afternoon while limiting Murray State a .120 hitting percentage, as the Sycamores defeated the Racers in three sets (25-23, 25-20, 25-19) in their final home match of the 2026 season.
 
Kira Holland led the Sycamore attack with 11 kills, while Curry Kendall added 10. Hadley Hardersen dished out 23 assists and registered 10 digs, leading the Trees in both categories. Kendall and Ella Scott tallied three aces apiece, while Corinne Knapp finished with a match-high four aces to go alongside eight kills. It marked the second straight match that the Trees tallied double-digit service aces.
 
She Can Dig It
Indiana State defensive specialist/libero Macy Lengacher became the 12th player in program history to record 1,000 career digs, with the senior libero accomplishing the feat in the third set of Friday's match against Valparaiso.
 
Lengacher became the first Sycamore to reach 1,000 career digs since Melina Tedrow during the 2020-21 season, while moving up to 11th in program history on the all-time digs list.
 
Serve's Up
Indiana State was a force to be reckoned with from the service line against Valparaiso and Murray State, as the Sycamores recorded 25 aces across the two matches. The Trees registered back-to-back matches with double-digit aces for the first time in the 25-point rally scoring era, serving up 15 against Valparaiso and 10 against Murray State. The Sycamores' 15 aces against the Beacons were their most in the rally scoring era and their most in a match since the 1993 season.
 
Indiana State's 25 aces were the third-most among any team in Division I last week, while Curry Kendall was the only Division I athlete to record double-digit aces over the course of the week with 10.
 
Chart Climbing
With five aces over her last two matches, senior middle blocker Ella Scott reached 100 aces for her career. Scott became the first Sycamore to reach 100 aces since Kristin Widmar in 2004, while also ranking among the program's all-time leaders in hitting percentage, total blocks and block assists.
 
Indiana State outside hitter Kira Holland moved up to eighth in program history with 1,075 kills, a mark which ranks inside the top 75 among active Division I athletes.
 
Crunch Time
Indiana State has an outside shot of reaching the MVC Tournament for the first time since 2021, but the Sycamores do not control their own destiny in the postseason chase.
 
The Sycamores will need to win their last two matches against Evansville and Southern Illinois, while needing both UIC and Valparaiso to go 0-2 for the upcoming week to have a chance. Indiana State likely also needs Murray State to go 2-0 for the tiebreakers to go in the Sycamores' favor.
 
Up Next
This week's results around the conference will determine the Sycamores' MVC Tournament fate. Should Indiana State finish in the top six, its first round match will be November 18.

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