Missouri natives Alison Landwehr and Victoria Hurtt will get one final chance to play in their home state Wednesday. Missouri recently accepted an invitation to join the SEC in all sports next season. The Cyclones are set to take on Missouri in Columbia.

Landwehr, the junior setter, and Hurtt, the freshman outside hitter, are from St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.

“I’m really excited to be going back,” Landwehr said. “I have a lot of family coming, so it should be pretty fun.”

Hurtt, who didn’t play against Missouri in the previous meeting, has former high school teammates on the Tigers.

She admitted that helps a little out on the court.

“When you step on the court, it’s just competition after that,” Hurtt said. “You know a couple of their tendencies, but they have grown as players just like I have.”

The first match between these two teams didn’t take long. Iowa State swept the Tigers in one hour and 11 minutes when the two teams met in Ames.

Senior outside hitter Carly Jenson lead the way with 13 kills and 11 digs. Freshman outside hitter Hannah Willms recorded 11 kills in the victory.

Missouri outside hitter Lisa Henning has been putting up impressive numbers this season. Henning posted 13 kills against the Cyclones in the first matchup and has gone on to lead the league in kills against conference foes with 4.8 per set.

“Henning is hard to stop,” said coach Christy Johnson-Lynch. “They are using her more and more than they did the first time we played them. They’re using her out of the back row, so were going to have to prepare for that a little bit.”

She also is the only player in the Big 12 to average more than five total points per set.

Johnson-Lynch also noted that the team will have to keep an eye on the Tigers’ other outside hitter in Emily Wilson. Wilson recorded eight kills in 19 attempts against the Cyclones in the previous meeting. That chalked up to a .421 hitting percentage.

The Cyclones are coming off a sweep of Big 12 last-place team Texas Tech. The win gave Iowa State 10 in the conference, the first team to accomplish that feat.

Beating Missouri would give the Cyclones their 20th win of the season, a significant number for Iowa State. This would be the fifth straight season of 20 or more wins. The Cyclones have never missed the postseason when reaching that mark.

“I think we’ve improved a lot as well,” Johnson-Lynch said. “That was the first match where our blocking started to improve. I think we’re a little better out of system. I think Alison Landwehr is better than she was at that point in the season too. We’re really better in all areas.”