No. 17 USC Women's Volleyball Hosts Indiana and No. 13 Purdue at Galen

LOS ANGELES – 17th-ranked USC (10-2, 1-1 Big Ten) hosts its B1G Premiere weekend when Indiana (11-1, 2-0) and No. 13 Purdue (10-2, 1-1) visit on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 3-4). The Trojans play their first conference home matches after going 7-0 in non-league contests. USC has won nine straight on the Galen floor and will take on the Hoosiers in Los Angeles for the first time. The Boilermakers take on the Trojans as the road team for the first time since 2006 but played in the Lyon Center that season; weeks before the grand opening of Galen Center.

B1G PREMIERE

Galen Center • Los Angeles, Calif.

MATCH #13 • Friday, Oct. 3 • 7 p.m. PT
No. 17 USC (10-2, 1-1) vs. Indiana (11-1, 2-0)
Galen Center • Los Angeles, Calif.
SERIES RECORD: USC leads, 3-0 (1.000)
LAST MEETING: W 3-1 (Nov. 10, 2024 • Bloomington, Ind.)
STREAK: Won 3 • LAST 10 MEETINGS: 3-0
TV/STREAM: B1G+ (Scott Hills & Makena Arteaga)
OPPONENT WEBSITE: IUHoosiers.com

MATCH #14 • Saturday, Oct. 4 • 6:30 p.m. PT
No. 17 USC (10-2, 1-1) vs. No. 13 Purdue (10-2, 1-1)
Galen Center • Los Angeles, Calif.
SERIES RECORD: USC leads, 6-1 (.857)
LAST MEETING: L 3-0 (Nov. 23, 2024 • West Lafayette, Ind.)
STREAK: Lost 1 • LAST 10 MEETINGS: 6-1
TV: B1G Network (Paul Sunderland & Holly McPeak)
OPPONENT WEBSITE: PurdueSports.com

FIRST SERVE (TL;DR)

USC is led by sixth-year head coach Brad Keller who has the unique experience of having coached both men's and women's programs at both USC and UCLA. Overall, Keller is 95-59 (.617) as the Trojans' head coach.
The Trojans are ranked No. 17 in the AVCA Coaches Poll.
USC is undefeated at home (7-0) and has won nine straight home contests. It is 223-60 (.788) all-time at Galen Center since the arena opened in 2006.
Purdue MB Lindsey Miller started her college career at Notre Dame (2020-21) but was at USC for three seasons (2022-24) but did not play in the 2024 campaign. She graduated from USC in the spring of 2025.
The Women of Troy have reached double-digit blocks in eight matches to lead the Big Ten in blocks per set (2.96 bps) and are seventh nationally.
Redshirt So. MB Leah Ford leads USC (4th in the Big Ten) in blocks (1.34 bps).
Fr. OPP Abigail Mullen is the Trojans' leading scorer with 4.14 points per set and ranks 13th in the Big Ten. She is the second-leading server in the conference with 0.55 service aces per set.

LAST TIME OUT: USC opened its Big Ten schedule on the road and traveled clear across the country to take on defending league and NCAA champion Penn State. The Nittany Lions won the first two sets, but the Trojans fought back to force set five and were tied, 12-all, before PSU closed out a 15-13 win. USC bounced back and claimed a 3-0 win over Ohio State the next night as Reese Messer collected her fourth straight double-double (sixth career). London Wijay delivered a season-high 18 kills in the win to follow a performance against the Lions where she logged her third double-double with 10 kills and 10 digs. Abigail Mullen had 31.0 points and had her third straight match with four or more aces.

AVCA POLL POSITION: The Trojans open the 2025 season ranked No. 21 in the AVCA coaches' poll—the same position it held to open the 2024 season. Overall, USC has appeared in the coaches' poll 548 times, which ranks sixth all-time. The Women of Troy have held a spot among the poll's top 10 teams 317 times, which ranks eighth all-time, and the Trojans have held the No. 1 ranking 47 times for seventh all-time. Since 1982—the year of the poll's inception—USC has appeared in the final poll 35 of 42 times with 18 finishes in the top 10; 12 in the top five, and twice as the No. 1-ranked team (2002, '03).

CENTURY CITY: Sixth-year head coach Brad Keller is 95-59 and needs just five wins to reach the 100-win mark in his career. Only three other coaches have ever collected 100 or more wins in USC history: Mick Haley (435), Chuck Erbe (310), and Lisa Love (205). At 95 wins, Keller is already the fourth-winningest coach in program history.

MILLER TIME RETURNS: Purdue MB Lindsey Miller started her collegiate career at Notre Dame (2020-21) before she transferred to USC for the next three seasons (2022-24). The San Diego native did not play in the 2024 campaign and graduated from USC in the spring of 2025. She appeared in 54 matches in Cardinal and Gold and collected 316 kills (1.62 kps) with .344 hitting and produced 185 blocks (0.95 bps). In 2023, she had an iconic service ace—one of a career-high three aces—against the Boilermakers to help USC go up, 28-27, to claim a critical first set (30-28) as part of a 3-1 road win in West Lafayette.

B1G AND SMALL: Only three Big Ten teams hold winning records against the Trojans. Wisconsin has the best win percentage of the three with a 6-3 mark against USC. Illinois is 4-3 and Penn State is 4-2 against the Women of Troy.

ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK: The Trojans' 2.96 blocks per set ranks first in the Big Ten and is seventh nationally. USC posted 16.0 blocks in a four-set win over Loyola Marymount (Aug. 31) and has reached double-digit blocks in eight matches. In 2024, USC reached double-digit blocks 20 times in 32 matches including season highs of 19.5 blocks twice: vs. Kansas State (Sept. 6) and vs. Loyola Marymount (Sept. 19).

DOUBLE DOWN: Six Trojans own career double-doubles. Three were achieved in the first week of the season. OPP Abigail Mullen (4), MB Leah Ford, and S Reese Messer (6) each produced the first of their careers to help the Trojans go 2-0 to open the 2025 season. Entering the fall, OH Adonia Faumuina had logged a double-double in her first-collegiate match as she led the Women of Troy to a win over crosstown rival UCLA. OH London Wijay had back-to-back double-doubles in road matches at Purdue and UCLA for her first two of her career and now has 12-career double-doubles. LIB Gala Trubint has had two-career double-doubles with digs and 10 assists each time.

HOME, SWEET HOME: USC is 223-60 (.788) all-time at Galen Center. The Trojans went 12-4 at home in 2024. In 2011, USC was 12-1 in home matches and completed 2012 with a 17-1 mark. In 2007, USC was 19-0 at home on the way to an appearance in the NCAA national semifinal match. The Trojans are 20-4 all-time at Galen Center in NCAA tournament matches. The four losses were to Hawai'i (2008 and 2009) and San Diego (2018) each time in the second round; and to Washington in the 2013 NCAA Regional Final.

No. 17 USC Women's Volleyball Hosts Indiana and No. 13 Purdue at Galen

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No. 17 USC Women's Volleyball Hosts Indiana and No. 13 Purdue at Galen

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Adonia Faumuina

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Reese Messer

Lindsey Miller

Abigail Mullen

Gala Trubint

London Wijay

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