The 14th-seeded Florida volleyball team (27-4, 19-1 SEC) travels
to Texas to compete in the NCAA Austin Regional, Friday-Saturday, December 7-8
in Gregory Gymnasium. The Gators take on the host and third-seeded Texas
Longhorns in the regional semifinal at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN3.
All three matches of the Austin Regional will be broadcast
on the ESPN family of networks with play-by-play analyst Adam Amin and color
commentator Maria Taylor on the call. Both regional semifinal matches will air
live on ESPN3 and the regional final will be broadcast live on ESPNU.
Joining the 2012 Southeastern Conference Champion Gators in
the Austin Regional are No. 3 seed and Big 12 Champion Texas (25-4), who faced
one another earlier this season in the first match of the Nike Big Four Classic
at Penn State. The Gators fell in three tight sets, 27-29, 22-25, 24-26, to the
Longhorns in late August but have won two of the last three matchups with
Texas.
Florida leads the all-time series (12-6, 12-5 under Wise)
with Texas and is 4-3 against the Longhorns in the NCAA Tournament (4-2 under
Wise).
Sixth-seeded and Pac-12 runner-up Southern California (29-5)
and unseeded Wichita State meet up in the other regional semifinal. The
Shockers, who knocked off No. 11 seed Kansas to reach the Sweet 16 for the
first time in program history, and the Trojans, the three-time NCAA Champions (1981,
2002, 2003), will meet at 6 p.m. ET on Friday evening for a berth to the Elite
Eight.
