Oct. 6, 2006
For the first time this season live video of the match is available. Watch the Irish take on the Golden Eagles (7-8, 3-1 BIG EAST) in the Joyce Center at 3 p.m.
The Irish and Golden Eagles are rivals in the same conference for the third different time and will play for the second time since 1997 and the ninth time overall … Notre Dame has won all eight previous matches, holding a 24-2 advantage in game victories … the most-recent match saw the Irish triumph 30-24, 28-30, 30-21, 30-27 at the Al McGuire Center in ’05 … Notre Dame has never dropped a game at home to the Golden Eagles in three previous appearances at the Joyce Center … Marquette is the only school that has been in all three of Notre Dame’s volleyball conferences with the Irish … the teams played as North Star Conference members from 1985-87 and then were Midwestern Collegiate Conference foes for one year (1990) before Marquette joined the BIG EAST in 2004 … the Irish won 15-3, 15-4, 15-5 at the Joyce Center in 1986 … the schools first met in 1985 in Dayton, Ohio, with the Irish prevailing in three games … the teams played five times as NSC members and then once in ’90, but have met just twice since Marquette left the MCC … 2002 graduate Marcie Bomhack (Waukesha, Catholic Memorial H.S., Milwaukee Sting VBC) – now the head coach at Loyola University Chicago – remains the only Wisconsin native ever to play volleyball for the Irish … on Oct. 3, 1986, in the Joyce Center, ND finished with a .539 hitting percentage (52 kills, 4 errors, 89 attempts), which still stands as the highest in program history in any-length match.