Match Information
Navy (7-10 / 3-5) at Bucknell (7-10 / 4-4)
Saturday, Oct. 18 • 4 p.m. / Davis Gym • Lewisburg, Pa.
Series - Navy leads, 41-26 / Patriot League Series - Navy leads, 34-25
Last Match - Navy, 3-2 (Oct. 11, 2025 / Annapolis, Md.)
Live Video - ESPN+

This Week
•    Navy's lone match this week is against a Bucknell team that the Mids faced last Saturday in Annapolis.  This week's rematch will take place Saturday at 4 p.m. at Davis Gym in Lewisburg, Pa.
•    ESPN+ will stream the match, with links to that and to the live statistics from the match found at NavySports.com.

Last Week
•    Navy split a pair of matches on its home floor, losing in four sets to Colgate (14-25, 25-22, 25-16, 25-20) and defeating Bucknell in five sets (25-23, 16-25, 23-25, 25-11, 15-12).

Navy vs. Bucknell
•    Bucknell enters the match against the Mids with a 7-10 record this season. This includes a 4-4 record in league matches.
•    Bucknell has tallied a 7-6 record in sets decided by two points –– 3-1 in "overtime" sets –– and a 16-20 record in sets decided by no more than five points.
•    Bucknell won both 2024 matches against Navy, winning in three sets in Annapolis (25-15, 25-9, 25-18) and in Lewisburg (27-25, 25-20, 25-19).
•    Four of the last eight matches in the series have been extended to five sets.
•    The last eight matches have included 32 sets.  Of those, 10 were decided by two points and 20 were determined by no more than five points.

Navy vs. Bucknell History
All - 41-26 (H - 18-13, R - 19-13, N - 4-0)
Div. 1 -39-26 (H - 17-13, R - 19-13, N - 3-0)
PL - 34-25 (H - 16-12, R - 18-13, N - 0-0)
PLT - 4-1 (H - 0-1, R - 1-0, N - 3-0)

Up Next
•    Navy will be back in the Wesley A. Brown Field House for matches Friday against Lafayette (7 p.m.) and Saturday against Lehigh (7:30 p.m.).

Toppin Earns Pair of Awards This Week
•    Ava Toppin received two of the Patriot League's weekly awards this week for her efforts last week against Colgate and Bucknell.
•    Toppin averaged 2.56 kills and 1.56 blocks per set and hit.442 over the course of the weekend.  She first tallied eight kills, three blocks and a .263 hitting percentage in Navy's close four-set loss to first-place Colgate.  She then produced a career-high 15 kills and one error on 24 attempts for a .583 hitting night and added a career-best 11 blocks the next day in a five-set victory over Bucknell.  Toppin had six kills and no errors on seven attempts in the abbreviated fifth set, which she ended with her final kill of the match.
•    The 11 blocks ties her for third place for the most by a Mid in a match since statistics began being counted with the 1995 season, and was just two shy of tying the school mark of 13.  It also tied her for the Navy mark for the most in a Patriot League match.  Additionally, it established a new Wesley A. Brown Field House record (opened in 2008).

First Set Key
•    Navy has compiled a much better match record when it wins the first set than it does when losing the first frame since 2021.
•    The Mids have compiled a 52-8 record in matches in which it wins the first set during this span, which includes a 31-6 record in league matches.
•    Navy has posted a 9-54 overall record and a 7-28 record in league matches when it loses the first set.

Defense Wins
•    The team winning the digs statistics has had great success in Navy's matches over the last five seasons.
•    Since 2021, Navy has posted a 43-15 record when it wins the digs statistic and a 15-43 record when it loses it (3-4 when tied).
•    In league matches over these seasons, Navy has compiled a 27-11 record when it grabs more digs, a 10-22 record when it is on the short end of the stat and a 1-1 record when it ties its foes in digs.

Five-Set Matches
•    Navy played 20 five-set matches during the 2022 (8), 2023 (7) and 2024 (5) seasons.  This includes 16 such matches against Patriot League foes during the regular season.
•    Navy also played 20 five-set matches during the rally scoring era (since 2001) over the 2005-07 and 2017-19 seasons.
•    The Mids have played 42 five-set matches under Paco Labrador (since 2018), including four this season.

39-37!
•    Navy's Aug. 29 match at Utah Valley featured a fourth set with the final score of 39-37.
•    The Mids served for the match 10 times and the Wolverines served for the set five times before the Mids finally won the frame.
•    It was by far Navy's highest scoring set since the sport went to a 25-point scoring system in 2008, is the highest scoring set played by a Patriot League team, is the highest scoring set in the NCAA this season and wasn't too far off the NCAA record of 46-44.

More Close Sets
•    Navy has already played 11 sets this season (6-5 record) in which the final score has been above the 25-point mark in sets one through four and / or 15 points in set five.
•    The Mids played 12 such "overtime" sets all of last season.
•    Navy also has already played 20 sets decided by two points this year (12-8 record) after it played 23 during the 2024 campaign.
    
Starting Lineups
•    Navy has used 14 different starting lineups (including the libero) in its 17 matches this season.
•    13 players have started at least one match this year.

Navy in Wes B.
•    The Wesley A. Brown Field House has served as the primary home for the Navy volleyball team since the start of the 2008 season.
•    The Mids have compiled a 95-86 record in the facility, which includes a 46-31 record under head coach Paco Labrador.  
•    Additionally, Navy has registered a 75-50 record in Patriot League regular season matches played in the facility.  The Mids have posted a 36-17 league regular season record under Labrador in the building.
•    The late Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown ('49) was the first African-American graduate of the USNA.

Double-Doubles
•    Arleigh Hanson registered 10 assist / dig double-doubles during the 2024 season.  That tied her for sixth place for the most by a Mid during a rally scoring season.
•    She then posted double-doubles in each of the three matches at the 2025 season-opening Utah Valley Invite and added another one against Gardner-Webb.
•    Her 14 career assist / dig double-doubles ranks eighth in school history.
•    Fellow setters Isa Boyd and Lainey Feighery also have combined for seven double-doubles this season and 10 in their careers.

Toppin Moving Up Blocks List
•    Ava Toppin is averaging nearly one block per set this season.  That average has allowed her to improve her standing on Navy's career blocks-per-set chart.
•    She is tied for fifth place overall and in fifth place alone during the rally scoring era with an average of 0.89 blocks per set.

Farrah as a Freshman in 2024
•    Farrah Eike earned Second-Team All-Patriot League accolades during as a freshman during the 2024 season when she led the Mids in both kills (168) and kills per set (2.67 kps).
•    She became the fifth freshman to lead Navy in both statistical categories on the Division I program and the third to do so during the rally scoring era.