Thursday, November 12
Mobile, AL
7 p.m.
Georgia Southern University
at
South Alabama
11/11/2026 5:39:00 PM | Volleyball
STATESBORO – Georgia Southern volleyball concludes the regular season this weekend as the Eagles travel to Mobile, Alabama, to face off against South Alabama. First serve on Thursday is scheduled for 7 p.m. and will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
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- For the first time in program history, Georgia Southern volleyball secured the East Division title, sweeping Georgia State to lock up the one-seed in the Sun Belt Tournament next week in Foley, Alabama. The 11 wins to this point in conference play are the most for the Eagles since the 2013 season where they won 13 matches in their final year in the SoCon. The 2013 season was the last time that Georgia Southern appeared in the NCAA Tournament, but the Eagles now focus their sights on South Alabama. The final two matches of the season have no implications on the Sun Belt Tournament slate, but the Blue and White sit with the highest RPI in the league at 54 and look to bolster their at-large resume with two road conference wins. Georgia Southern also enters the weekend seeking their third 20-win season under head coach Chad Willis and 14th overall in program history.
- A duo of Georgia Southern volleyball players collected more Sun Belt honors on Tuesday morning, as Maddie Cugino and Reagan Barth were selected as the league's Defensive and Offensive Players of the Week. Cugino earned her third honor of the season, producing 44 digs on the weekend (7.33 per set), adding one kill, three assists, one ace, and a perfect 1.000 reception rate in 15 attempts. Barth continued her dominance and added to her Player of the Year resume by recording her second player of the week honor this season, after becoming the fourth player in program history to produce 1,500-plus kills. The Lenexa, Kansas, native finished the week ranked first in the Sun Belt in points per set (7.25), second in kills per set (5.50), first in aces per set (1.33), ninth in hitting percentage (.337), and eighth in digs per set (4.33). On the national side, Barth was fourth in points per set (7.25), fifth in aces per set (1.33), and ninth amongst all outside hitters in digs per set (4.33).
- Georgia Southern ranks in the top half of the Sun Belt Conference in a multitude of statistical categories entering the final weekend of league play. The Eagles are first in points per set (17.47), second in opponent hitting percentage (.181), first in hitting percentage (.259), second in assists per set (12.63), first in kills per set (13.88), first in opponent blocks (138.0) and opponent blocks per set (1.47), seventh in blocks (223.5), fourth in blocks per set (2.38), first in opponent service aces (0.94), third in digs (1,545), and second in digs per set (16.44).Â
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