COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M (15-10, 8-9 Big 12) returns home for a Sunday match against the Texas Tech Red Raiders (2-24, 0-17 Big 12). First serve is slated for 3 p.m. at Reed Arena.

It will be “Aggie Ring Day” at the match, and anyone wearing an A&M Aggie Ring will be admitted free at the Reed Arena north entrance.

The Aggies got back into the win column on Wednesday with a crucial 3-1 (25-23, 25-22, 22-25, 25-23) victory at Oklahoma, a team that had won four of its last five matches and had swept the Aggies at Reed earlier this season. A&M enters this weekend in seventh place in the Big 12 standings with only three wins separating the Aggies from fourth place.

A&M has only two matches remaining in the regular season following the contest against last-place Texas Tech. A&M takes on ninth-place Colorado Wednesday in Boulder and then closes out the regular season at home against Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 28. First serve against the Tigers is at 4 p.m. at Reed, and A&M’s six seniors —Sarah Ammerman, Jennifer Banse, Mary Batis, Dylan Faulkner, Jola Kelner and Kristen Schevikhoven — will be honored following the match.

Texas Tech is looking for its first Big 12 victory of the year and aiming to break a 19-match losing skid. The Red Raiders have not won a match since defeating Gonzaga, 3-1, on Sept. 11. Most recently, Tech fell to Missouri in three sets on Wednesday in Lubbock.

Texas A&M entered the week leading the nation with 14.02 assists per set and has since raised its average to 14.12 after tallying a season-high 65 assists in the 3-1 victory against the Sooners. In addition, the Aggies lead the conference and are in the top five in the country with 14.92 kills per set.

Aggie senior setter Kristen Schevikhoven (11.11 assists per set) directs a well-balanced and potent offense that also ranks third in the Big 12 with a .246 hitting percentage. Senior outside hitter Sarah Ammerman leads the team and is ranked second in the Big 12 with 4.36 kills and 4.78 points per set. Senior right-side hitter Jennifer Banse, who leads A&M’s outside attackers with a .270 hitting efficiency, is second on the team and eighth in the Big 12 with 3.28 kills. She also is second on the team and 10th in the Big 12 with and 3.66 points per set.

Freshmen middle blocker Alisia Kastmo, who had a career-high 10 kills and only one error against Oklahoma, leads the Aggies and is ninth in the Big 12 with a .314 hitting percentage for the full season. Freshman colleague Lindsey Miller, who has started every match, is hitting .290 and leads the team with 0.80 blocks per set.

The Aggies are third in the Big 12 with 17.06 digs per set for the full season. Senior outside hitter Mary Batis, who has started every match of her career and is ranked in A&M’s top 10 records for career kills, points and digs, is one of three players averaging more than three digs per set with a team-leading 3.41 norm. Freshman libero Tori Mellinger is averaging 3.28 digs per set, and Ammerman averages 3.07 digs.

A&M-TEXAS TECH SERIES RECORDS
• A&M is 49-29 all-time against Texas Tech, including 20-7 in Big 12 matches only.

• A&M is 23-8 against the Red Raiders in matches played in College Station.

• The Aggies have won the last five meetings against the Red Raiders, including a 3-0 victory in both teams’ 2009 Big 12 season opener on Sept. 19 at United Spirit Arena in Lubbock. A&M hit a season-high .461, posting 45 kills with only four errors in 89 attempts. Tech was held to a .128 hitting percent. Mary Batis led A&M with 13 kills with zero errors in 23 attempts for a .565 hitting efficiency. Sarah Ammerman added 11 kills while hitting at a .455 clip. Setter Jola Kelner, making her only start of the season, directed the offense with 36 assists, and libero Tori Mellinger led all players with a career-high 15 digs. Amanda Dowdy led Tech with seven kills but hit .000 for the match.

• Texas Tech’s most recent win against the Aggies was a 30-25, 30-23, 30-27 victory on Nov. 18, 2006, at United Spirit Arena.

• A&M has swept the season series seven times since Big 12 play begin in 1996, including each of the last two seasons. The teams have split the Big 12 season series five times. Tech notched its only Big 12 series sweep against the Aggies in 2006.

AGGIE QUICK HITS
• A&M moved up one spot to 41st in the NCAA RPI ranking, released on Monday. A&M is 6-9 against teams in the NCAA Volleyball RPI top 51, including wins against Nebraska, Northern Iowa and Baylor. The RPI is the heavily weighted tool that the NCAA Volleyball Committee uses to help determine the 33 teams that will receive an at-large berth into the 64-team NCAA Championships.

• Sarah Ammerman, who leads the team with 4.36 kills per set this season, needs 14 kills to give her 1,463 career kills and move her into sixth place in the A&M career kill records, surpassing former All-American Sherri Brinkman, who had 1,462 from 1983-86. Ammerman needs only 41 kills over the last three regular-season matches to move from seventh to fourth. In addition to Brinkman, Ammerman will pass Cheri Steensma, who had 1,477 kills from 1985-88, and former two-time All-American Melissa Munsch, who had 1,479 kills from 2001-04.

• Sarah Ammerman needs 30 digs to become the 18th player in A&M history to post 1,000 or more career digs. In addition, Ammerman, who currently has 1,449 kills, will become the 10th player in A&M history to reach the 1,000 milestone for both digs and kills. Ammerman enters the Tech match averaging 3.07 digs per set.

• Mary Batis is ranked in the A&M top 10 for career points, kills and digs. She is fourth in points with 1,541, fifth in digs with 1,280 and ninth in kills with 1,346.

• Senior setter Kristen Schevikhoven is seventh in the A&M career records with 2,955 assists. After posting a season-high 53 assists at Oklahoma on Wednesday, the Colorado native needs only eight more assists to move into sixth place in the Aggie career records, surpassing Chris Zogata who had 2,982 from 1983-86.

• Freshman libero Tori Mellinger, who has posted double figures in digs in 15 of the last 19 matches, has taken team-high honors in digs in a team-leading nine matches. Mellinger set a career high and led all players with 24 digs in the 3-1 win at No. 17 Baylor.

• Kristen Schevikhoven’s career-high 27 digs in A&M’s 3-1 victory at Oklahoma on Nov. 18 marks the most digs in a match by an A&M player since former libero Holly Clay had 28 in a five-set match at Texas Tech on Oct. 22, 2005, when the 30-point scoring system was in effect. The last time an A&M player recorded 27 or more digs in a four-set match was Oct. 22, 2001, when Michelle Cole tallied 32 against Kansas State. Schevikhoven’s 27 digs equals the second most digs in a four-set match amongst all players in the Big 12 this season.

• A&M’s .465 hitting percentage in the Big 12 opener at Texas Tech on Sept. 19 ranks ninth in the school record books and third all-time in A&M’s Big 12 matches only. It also is the highest hitting percentage by a Big 12 team this season. A&M’s .460 hitting percentage against Virginia is the second highest by a Big 12 team this season.

• A&M leads the Big 12 for fewest aces allowed (0.57) and is third for aces per set (1.15) for the full season. Freshman libero Tori Mellinger leads the Aggies with 0.21 aces per set for the full season, and senior outside hitter Mary Batis ranks 10th in the Big 12 and leads the team with 0.21 aces per set in conference matches only.

• Add middle blocker to sophomore Kelsey Black’s list of positions played. The 5-11 Amarillo, Texas native was the Aggies’ designated libero as a freshman. This season, she has backed up both the left and right-side hitters and also come in as a defensive specialist. In the third set against No. 2 Texas on Oct. 28, Black was inserted as a middle blocker. She finished the match with two kills and a solo block. Black then drew her first start of the season at Kansas as a middle blocker and tied for the team lead with a career-high five blocks. Black has started four matches this season, all at middle blocker. The versatile Black saw action as both a defensive specialist and a middle blocker in A&M’s match against Oklahoma on Wednesday.

• A&M has three players averaging more than three digs per set for the full season: Mary Batis, 3.41 dps; Tori Mellinger, 3.28 dps; and Sarah Ammerman, 3.07 dps. Batis leads the team with 3.50 dps in Big 12 matches only after posting 17 digs at Oklahoma on Wednesday.

• A&M entered the week ranked 25th in the nation for home attendance, averaging 1,637 per match at Reed Arena. The Aggies set an all-time home attendance record with 3,876 at the Texas match on Oct. 28. It broke the previous record of 3,778 set against Texas on Oct. 24, 2003, at G. Rollie White Coliseum.

• The Aggies, who tied eventual NCAA-regional finalist Iowa State for fourth place in the Big 12 with an 11-9 league record last year, have been picked to finish fourth in the league this season, according to a preseason poll of the conference coaches. Defending Big 12 co-champions Texas and Nebraska are picked to finish first and second, respectively, with Iowa State following at third place. A&M is followed by Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Texas Tech.

• Aggie head coach Laurie Corbelli is 358-168 in her 17th year as head coach of the Aggies and 458-274 in the 24th season of her head coaching career. She is A&M’s winningest coach in terms of total victories and ranks second for winning percentage (.681).

• The NCAA Selection Show is set to air on ESPNews from 2-2:30 p.m. (CST) on Sunday, Nov. 29.

SCOUTING TEXAS TECH
• Texas Tech coach Trish Knight (Southwest Missouri State ‘80) is in her first season at the helm of the Red Raiders. She takes over a team that went 0-20 in the Big 12 last year and is picked to finish last this year according to a preseason poll of the league coaches.

• Tech’s two wins have been against Southeastern Louisiana and Gonzaga.

• Outside hitter Amanda Dowdy is ranked seventh in the Big 12 with 3.33 kills, 3.90 points and 0.26 aces per set for the full season

• Middle blocker Barbara Conceicao is second in the Big 12 with 1.26 blocks per set.

• Most recently, Tech fell to Missouri, 25-22, 25-20, 25-22, in Lubbock on Wednesday. Amanda Dowdy led the Red Raiders with 14 kills and 13 digs, and Barbara Conceicao had 10 kills.

• Dowdy and A&M sophomore outside hitter/libero Kelsey Black were teammates on the USA Junior National Team this past summer. A&M associate head coach John Corbelli served as an assistant coach of the team.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
A&M plays its final road match of the season on Wednesday as the Aggies take on the Colorado Buffaloes in Boulder. First serve is 7 p.m. (8 p.m. Central) at Coors Events Center. A&M closes out the regular season at home against Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 28. It will be Senior Day at the Missouri match, which begins at 4 p.m. at Reed, and A&M’s six seniors -— Sarah Ammerman, Jennifer Banse, Mary Batis, Dylan Faulkner, Jola Kelner and Kristen Schevikhoven — will be recognized in a ceremony following the match.