The ISU volleyball team is hoping to do something this Saturday that no other team has done so far this season: beat Texas A&M in College Station, Texas.

No. 15 Iowa State (15-3, 6-1 Big 12), now tied for first in the Big 12 standings, will try to snap the Aggies’ three-game win streak and put a blemish on their 7-0 home record.

“It’s a tough place to play, we haven’t won down there a whole lot, so that will be a huge match for us,” said ISU coach Christy Johnson-Lynch. “It’s a tough gym. We can’t be average and win, we’re going to have to play well.”

Texas A&M (16-4, 5-2) returns all six starters as well as the libero from last year’s campaign in which it went 13-17 overall.

The Aggie offensive attack is led by senior outside hitter Kelsey Black, who is averaging 3.42 kills per set while hitting at a .236 attack percent.

“Kelsey Black will be someone we’ll key on. She’s very athletic, she’s not very big, but she’s very explosive,” Johnson-Lynch said. “She hits the ball really hard and has a great arm, so we’ll have to slow her down.”

Middle blocker Lindsey Miller is another key player for the Aggies, leading the team and ranking fourth in the Big 12 with a .371 hitting percentage.

While the Aggies are dead-last in the conference in blocks per set at 1.87, Miller ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 1.17 blocks per set.

ISU middle blocker Jamie Straube said that while scouting a talented team like Texas A&M is important, the Cyclones have to make sure they play their own game.

“A lot of it is that we have so much talent and so much potential that if we do what we can do well, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing or what they’re doing as long as we’re taking care of our side of the net,” Straube said.

Johnson-Lynch has pointed to the next two weeks as pivotal to the success of the Cyclones’ season, as they will face the top three teams in the conference in Texas A&M, Texas and Oklahoma.

First serve in College Station, Texas, will be Saturday at 6:30 p.m.