No. 5 Mustangs Home For Weekend Matches vs. Miami, Florida State

#5 SMU (13-3, 5-1 ACC) vs. Miami (7-8, 5-1 ACC)
Friday, Oct. 16 • 7 p.m. CT
Moody Coliseum • Dallas, Texas
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#5 SMU (13-3, 5-1 ACC) vs. Florida State (10-6, 4-1 ACC)
Sunday, Oct. 18 • 1 p.m. CT
Moody Coliseum • Dallas, Texas
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MIAMI AND FLORIDA STATE WEEK
• After splitting last week's matchup with No. 2 Pittsburgh, the Mustangs play host to Miami and Florida State on Friday and Sunday.
• The Mustangs look to start a new streak of wins with 14 more ACC matches left in the regular season.
• SMU is a combined 7-1 against Miami and Florida State all-time and is unbeaten against the two foes since joining the ACC in 2024.
• The Mustangs sit a game back of first place, tied with Pittsburgh and Miami, who are each 5-1. The Seminoles fall right behind the three with a 4-1 record.

PITT WEEK NOTABLES
• SMU handed Pittsburgh their first loss of the season in a four-set win (21-25, 25-19, 38- 36, 25-22) Wednesday night.
• The win snaps the Panthers' nation-leading 58-match home winning streak and extends the Mustangs' ACC winning streak to 14, the league's longest active streak.
• The win marked SMU's sixth win over a top-5 and ninth over a top-10 opponent under Erger. This season alone, the Mustangs have beaten the No. 2, No. 3, No. 8 and No. 9 teams in the country.
• The Mustangs handed Pitt its first set loss since Sept. 6. The Panthers had won their previous 28 sets until the Mustangs' second-set win.
• The Panthers had won 23 straight matches in the Petersen Events Center entering the match.
• Five Mustangs went for double-digit kills on the night, led by middle blocker Natalia Newsome, who logged a career-high 17 kills on a .519 hitting percentage.
• Sophomore outside hitter Suli Davis reached double-digit kills for the 14th time this season, logging 17 kills, nine digs, and four blocks.
• Outside hitter Jadyn Livings was crucial for the Mustangs, logging a season-best 13 kills on a .435 clip against the Panthers.
• Gabi Placide and Favor Anyanwu rounded out the double-digit kill performers, each registering 10 in the match. Anyanwu logged 8+ blocks for the 14th time (six this season) as a Mustang, moving her to third all-time at SMU in the category. She's got 26
matches at SMU with five or more blocks.
• Victoria Harris put up her second 20-dig match of the season against the Panthers, finishing with exactly 20 in the four-setter. She was also a force at the service line for the Mustangs, ending the match with four aces and tying the career-high she set earlier in the year. Harris' 20-dig performance against the Panthers was the 13th time she has done so in her career.
• Along with her 10 kills, Anyanwu led the defense at the net with nine blocks. As a team, SMU outblocked Pittsburgh 12.5 to 6, its third straight match with 12 or more blocks.
• Redshirt freshman setter Hannah Beauford paced the Mustangs to a .347 hitting percentage, dishing out a career-high 54 assists with four digs and four blocks. Defensively, the Mustangs out-dug the Panthers 61-48.
• SMU hit over .300 for the sixth straight match and improved to 55-0 under Coach Erger when reaching that threshold.
• The SMU middles combined for 27 kills on 47 swings, hitting a combined .447 for the night.

BACK AT NO. 5
• The Mustangs got back into the top-5 of the AVCA-Taraflex Coaches Poll this week, moving back up to No. 5 in the country.
• No. 5 is the highest ranking in program history, the mark they have now held four separate times this season.
• The Mustangs have wins over the current No. 2 Pittsburgh and No. 4 Kentucky and will face No. 3 Louisville twice before the regular season wraps up.

ANYANWU AGAINST THE PANTHERS
• In the two matches against Pittsburgh, middle blocker Favor Anyanwu was dominant. The Junior led the Mustangs, scoring 29.5 points in two matches.
• Anyanwu averaged 3.00 kills per set and 2.00 blocks per set, a blocking average that led the ACC. She did it all while hitting an efficient .429.
• She nearly logged her second double-double of the season with 10 kills and nine digs in Wednesday's win. She followed that up with 11 kills on a .533 hitting percentage along with five blocks on Sunday.

YEAR ONE TO YEAR TWO
• After an All-American season in her first year at SMU, Favor Anyanwu has turned it up a notch in all facets of her game.
• Anyanwu has increased her per-set averages in kills, aces, digs and blocks:

2025 Stats
1.86 k/s
1.45 b/s (Finished 16th in the NCAA)
0.35 d/s
0.00 sa/s

2026 Stats
2.24 k/s
1.59. b/s (5th in NCAA currently)
1.00 d/s
0.15 sa/s

LIVINGS' LAST FOUR
• After missing eight matches last season and a majority of non-conference matches last season due to injury, the former All-American Jadyn Livings has been steady for the Mustangs as of late.
• In the last four matches, Livings is averaging 2.85 kills per set, second highest on the team. The outside is also hitting .406 in those matches.
• Livings had her best match of the season in the Mustangs' win at Pittsburgh, logging a season-high 13 kills on a .435 clip, while also adding two blocks.

BEAUFORD AT THE NET
• Redshirt-freshman setter Hannah Beauford averages 0.90 blocks per set in her first season of play at the Mustangs. Her 0.90 mark ranks second-best in the country among setters and first in the Power 4.

1. Isabel Ostvig (UMBC) 0.92
2. Hannah Beauford (SMU) 0.90
3. Gaby Zovko (UNCW) 0.85
Madi Maxwell (Long Beach State) 0.85
5. Jenna Meitzler (Iowa) 0.82
Tristen Raymond (Pepperdine) 0.82
*Minimum 40 sets played

SMU VS. MIAMI
• Friday's matchup with the Hurricanes will be the fourth between the two programs. The Mustangs lead the series 2-1 and have one each of the last two meetings.
• SMU defeated the No. 18 Miami last season on the road last time out in four sets. The last time the Hurricanes visited Dallas, SMU also won in four sets.
• The Hurricanes have won five straight matches entering the weekend.

SMU VS. FLORIDA STATE
• The Mustangs are a perfect 5-0 against the Seminoles all-time, all of which have come under head coach Sam Erger with the first matchup in 2023.
• SMU has only dropped two sets to the Seminoles in those five meetings. The Mustangs won both meeting last season 3-1.
• In Coach Erger's tenure at SMU, Florida State is the opponent that she has beaten the most.

Florida State ............... 5-0
Tulane......................... 4-0
Tulsa........................... 4-0

MOODY ATTENDANCE IN 2026
• Two of the top-3 and three of the top-6 attended home matches for SMU Volleyball have all come this season.
• SMU's home opener against Texas on Sept. 9 drew the second-largest crowd for a volleyball match in program history. It was also the most-attended volleyball match by SMU students in program history.

SMU HOME ATTENDANCE RECORDS:
1. #2 Nebraska - 6,773 - 9/3/24
2. #9 Texas - 6,207 - 9/9/26
3. #2 Pittsburgh - 4,564 - 10/11/26
4. #8 Texas A&M - 3,076 - 9/9/25
5. #4 Louisville - 3,015 - 10/27/24
6. #12 Stanford - 2,970 - 9/25/26

SHOWTIME SULI LEADING THE MUSTANGS
• Suli Davis has been one of the top point scorers not only in the ACC but in the country. She enters the week ranked top-25 nationally in four offensive categories:

Attacks Per Set (11th)
Kills Per Set (11th)
Points Per Set (11th)
Total Kills (21st)
Through 10/11/26

ANYANWU CRACKS THE TOP-10
• With 14 blocks this week against Pittsburgh, Favor Anyanwu moved into the top-10 in SMU's career block list in the 25-point rally scoring era.

1. Janelle Giordano     623     2013-16
2. Courtney Manning   578     2009-12
3. Jessica Oliver         435      2008-11
4. Alex Glover             400      2019-23
5. Meryn Kennedy       343     2017-21
6. Kristen Stehling       318     2013-16
7. Kendra Kahanek 299     2008-09*
8. Rachel Woulfe         277     2018-22
9. Favor Anyanwu     272     2025-26
*played prior to 25-point rally scoring era

TERMINAL OFFENSE THROUGH SIX ACC MATCHES
• Through six ACC matches, the Mustangs offense has been lethal, hitting .300+ in five of the six matches.
• SMU is first or second in the ACC in conference matches only in Hitting Percentage (1st - .351), Assists Per Set (1st - 13.45), Kills Per Set (2nd - 14.35) and Opponent Digs Per Set (9.30).
• Individually, Setter Hannah Beauford leads the league in Assists Per Set (11.35), Natalia Newsome is second in Hitting Percentage (.525) and Suli Davis is top-3 in Kills Per Set (4.80) and Points Per Set (5.43).

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Players Mentioned

Favor Anyanwu

Hannah Beauford

Suli Davis

Victoria Harris

Jadyn Livings

Natalia Newsome

Gabi Placide

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