No. 2 Pitt Remains Unblemished In Victory Heights With Sweep Of Florida State

Friday, October 16

Pittsburgh, Pa.

7 PM

Pitt

16-1,6-1ACC

Florida State

10-7,4-2ACC

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Florida St.	17	16	21	0
Pittsburgh	25	25	25	3

No. 2 Pitt Remains Unblemished In Victory Heights With Sweep Of Florida State

10/16/2026 9:58:00 PM | Volleyball

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PITTSBURGH – Entering Friday night's match against Florida State, the No. 2-ranked Pitt volleyball team had not dropped a set in five matches inside Victory Heights. The Panthers continued to methodically dominate inside the brand new state-of-the-art facility, sweeping past Florida State 25-17, 25-16, 25-21.

Pitt improved to 16-1 on the season and 6-1 in ACC play, while Florida State fell to 10-7 overall and 4-2 in league action. The Panthers remain one game behind Louisville and North Carolina atop the ACC standings.

SET ONE

Pitt opened the match with four straight points and Florida State never threatened again.
The Panthers pushed the lead to seven at 11-4 after an Izzy Starck and Maaike Heilig block but Florida State found itself within four later in the set, 18-14.
Pitt scored seven of the final 10 points to pull away for the 25-17 win.

SET TWO

Florida State rebounded from a 6-3 deficit to score five of the next six points and take a short-lived lead at 8-7.
Pitt clung to a 12-11 lead before a four-point run made it 16-11.
At 18-14, the Panthers used a 5-0 run to pull away and win 25-16.

SET THREE

Blaire Bayless began to heat up in the third set and had back-to-back kills as Pitt built a 6-3 lead.
At 8-6, Olivia Babcock had two kills and a block as the Panthers pushed the advantage to five.
Florida State would not go away and used a 3-0 run to get within three at 17-14.
Pitt, though, never led the Seminoles get closer and Bayless closed out the match with a kill for the 25-21 victory.

NOTABLE

Olivia Babcock and Blaire Bayless led Pitt with 13 and 11 kills, respectively, but Ayanna Watson added nine on 17 swings without an error.
Maaike Heilig added a career-best seven kills (.545 attack percentage) and added seven blocks.
Izzy Starck was one dig shy of a double-double with 37 assists and nine digs.
Trinity Thompson also had nine digs for the Panthers, while Babcock had six blocks and two aces.
As a team, Pitt hit .391 and held a 32-24 advantage in digs. The Panthers also had 11.0 blocks, compared to just 3.0 for Florida State.
Pitt and Florida State met for the 23rd time. Pitt is now 16-6 in the all-time series, including 9-1 in Pittsburgh.
Head Coach Dan Fisher improves to 441-77 in his career (.851), which ranks No. 1 in the country among all active head coaches.
Pitt played in front of a sellout crowd of 3,005 at Victory Heights and has now sold out of all matches inside the building for the 2026 regular season.
Pitt is 169-21 since the start of the 2021 season, equaling Nebraska for the most wins in the country in that span. Nebraska is the only team with a better record at 169-20. Pitt also improved to 91-10 in ACC play during that span.
Pitt has hit .300 or better in all six of its matches inside Victory Heights this year and 11-of-17 matches in totality.