FIU Athletics

Match Details
Southern Miss 3, FIU 0
Records: FIU 6-16, 4-10 C-USA. USM 19-11, 9-5 C-USA.
Saturday, November 11 | 2 p.m. | Hattiesburg, Miss. | Reed Green Coliseum

The Basics

-        In the 2017 season finale, FIU fell in three sets (26-24, 25-13, 25-19) at Southern Miss Saturday afternoon at Reed Green Coliseum. FIU gets a split in the final weekend to finish at 6-16 overall, 4-10 in Conference USA play. USM is 19-11 overall and 9-5 on the year. The Panthers rallied to end the season, winning four of their last seven matches.

-        The first set featured 10 ties, but only one lead change. FIU got up by as many as three, at 7-4, but the Golden Eagles caught and passed FIU at 8-7 and never again lost the lead in the set, despite ties at 14, 15, 16 and again at 24-all.

-        The Panthers were able to sideout the Golden Eagles at a 60 percent rate in the first set, but won less than half the points (22-for-50) when USM was serving.  

-        For just the fourth time this season, the Panthers did not have a double-digits digs performer. Three Panthers led the team with seven.  

-        Senior Taija Thomas (Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) paced FIU with nine kills.

-        Freshman setter Aleksandra Grigoreva (Moscow, Russia) put together a 21-assist, seven-dig night.  

Stat of the Match
After a tight opening set, the Golden Eagles won the point on 11 of the 13 FIU serves in the second (84 percent) to only allow 13 FIU points in the middle frame.

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About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute.  FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.