Duke vs Pittsburgh Volleyball: Pittsburgh Wins 3-0 (Nov 6)

FinalFri, Nov 6, 2026ACCNX

0:3

RallyIQ pre-match: Pittsburgh 99.7% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Nov 6, 5:55 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Pittsburgh beat visiting Duke 3-0 (25-18, 25-12, 25-20) on Fri, Nov 6, 2026. Pittsburgh's Olivia Babcock led with 14 kills, and Blaire Bayless added 11 digs.

Data through Nov 10, 6:25 PM CT · final Nov 6

Set	1	2	3	Sets
DUKE	18	12	20	0
PITT	25	25	25	3

Match story · written from the play-by-play

14 kills in 3 sets for Olivia Babcock. Pittsburgh swept Duke.

The biggest single-rally swing was 0.1 points, and Duke's high was <1% in Set 1. The gap came from these numbers. RallyIQ gave Pittsburgh >99% before first serve.

DukePittsburgh

Break %+20.3 pts
39.259.5
44 of 74 on serve vs 20 of 51, so Duke's sideout was 40.5%.
Hitting+.184
.185.369
48 kills, 10 errors vs 29 kills, 12 errors.
Longest run+2
46
Up 13–11 in the third set, Pittsburgh scored 6 straight to make it 19–11. The set finished 25–20.

Pittsburgh above 50Duke belowMax swing 0.1%

DukePittsburgh

Aces: Duke 5·Pittsburgh 7
Serve err: Duke 7·Pittsburgh 6
Blocks: Duke 2·Pittsburgh 7.51 BS · 2 BA vs 1 BS · 13 BA
Digs: Duke 39·Pittsburgh 43

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Pittsburgh above 50 · Duke below

No single rally moved win probability by a full point: Pittsburgh stayed the heavy favorite throughout.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

DUKE 0.2%99.8% PITT

Duke wins

3-0

0.0%

3-1

0.0%

3-2

0.2%

Pittsburgh wins

3-0

84.1%

3-1

14.1%

3-2

1.5%

DUKE break %: 29.0% vs this opp
PITT break %: 50.2% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Box score

Official NCAA box

Dukeaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
11Ashby ZubchevichOH	3	11	5	30	.200	0	3	3	8	1	0	0	0	14
8Nataly MoravecOH	3	7	6	33	.030	1	1	1	8	3	0	1	0.5	8.5
9Taylor WilliamsOH	3	5	0	12	.417	0	1	0	3	3	0	0	0	6
15Olivia WayneMB	3	4	1	9	.333	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5
5Breonna GossMB	3	1	0	3	.333	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.5	1.5
23Nikki QuinnS	3	0	0	0	–	23	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
12Avery HamlinOH	3	0	0	0	–	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
10Mailinh GodschallL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	2	0	1	9	0	0	0	0	0
14Carlyle JohnsonOH	2	1	0	5	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
22Charlotte GlassS	2	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2Grace ThrowerOH	2	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19Alyce DonoghueL/DS	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		29	12	92	.185	27	5	7	39	7	1	2	2	50

Pittsburghhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
5Olivia BabcockOH	3	14	2	37	.324	1	2	2	6	0	0	4	2	18
20Abbey EmchMB	3	8	1	11	.636	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	2.5	10.5
8Blaire BaylessOH	3	9	4	24	.208	0	0	0	11	1	0	1	0.5	9.5
2Maaike HeiligMB	3	6	0	10	.600	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	1.5	7.5
21Izzy StarckS	3	2	1	3	.333	34	1	1	6	0	0	2	1	4
12Ayanna WatsonOH	2	6	0	10	.600	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	7
9Trinity ThompsonS	3	0	0	0	–	3	3	0	8	0	0	0	0	3
10Marina PezeljOH	3	2	1	5	.200	1	0	0	6	3	0	0	0	2
7Izzy MastenL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13Mallorie MeyerL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
6Sophia GregoireOH	1	1	1	3	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
25Haiti Tautua'aS	1	0	0	0	–	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		48	10	103	.369	43	7	6	43	5	1	13	7.5	75

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 4 DUKE · PITT 6

Set 1

18-25

Longest run 4 DUKEPITT 5

Set 2

12-25

Longest run 3 DUKEPITT 4

Set 3

20-25

Longest run 3 DUKEPITT 6

Bars above the line = Pittsburgh leads, below = Duke leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Duke

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	35%6/17	50%5/10
2	35%6/17	0%0/6
3	40%6/15	50%6/12
4	33%4/12	45%5/11
5	57%4/7	33%2/6
6	67%4/6	33%2/6
All	41%30/74	39%20/51

Pittsburgh

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	86%6/7	58%7/12
2	60%6/10	63%10/16
3	46%6/13	67%12/18
4	71%5/7	55%6/11
5	67%4/6	64%7/11
6	50%4/8	33%2/6
All	61%31/51	59%44/74

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (3 of 3 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

125 rallies

#	DUKE-PITT	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer
Set 1
1	0-1	PITT	PITT	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
2	1-1	PITT	DUKE	Serve err	Pittsburgh
3	1-2	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Ayanna Watson	set Izzy Starck
4	1-3	PITT	PITT	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
5	2-3	PITT	DUKE	Serve err	Pittsburgh
6	2-4	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
7	3-4	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Nataly Moravec	set Nikki Quinn
8	4-4	DUKE	DUKE	Kill	Olivia Wayne	set Nikki Quinn
9	4-5	DUKE	PITT×5	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
10	4-6	PITT	PITT×5	Kill	Izzy Starck
11	4-7	PITT	PITT×5	Kill	Maaike Heilig	set Izzy Starck
12	4-8	PITT	PITT×5	Attack err	Ashby Zubchevich
13	4-9	PITT	PITT×5	Kill	Maaike Heilig
14	5-9	PITT	DUKE×3	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
15	6-9	DUKE	DUKE×3	Attack err	Blaire Bayless
16	7-9	DUKE	DUKE×3	Attack err	Blaire Bayless
17	7-10	DUKE	PITT×4	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
18	7-11	PITT	PITT×4	Attack err	Nataly Moravec
19	7-12	PITT	PITT×4	Kill	Izzy Starck	set Olivia Babcock
20	7-13	PITT	PITT×4	Kill	Maaike Heilig	set Izzy Starck
21	8-13	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
22	9-13	DUKE	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Mailinh Godschall
23	9-14	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Ayanna Watson	set Izzy Starck
24	9-15	PITT	PITT	Kill	Ayanna Watson	set Abbey Emch
25	10-15	PITT	DUKE×3	Serve err	Pittsburgh
26	11-15	DUKE	DUKE×3	Attack err	Izzy Starck
27	12-15	DUKE	DUKE×3	Ace	Duke	aced Ayanna Watson
28	12-16	DUKE	PITT×3	Serve err	Duke
29	12-17	PITT	PITT×3	Kill	Ayanna Watson	set Izzy Starck
30	12-18	PITT	PITT×3	Attack err	Nataly Moravec
31	13-18	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Nataly Moravec	set Nikki Quinn
32	13-19	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
33	13-20	PITT	PITT×3	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Nataly Moravec
34	13-21	PITT	PITT×3	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Trinity Thompson
35	14-21	PITT	DUKE×4	Serve err	Pittsburgh
36	15-21	DUKE	DUKE×4	Kill	Nataly Moravec
37	16-21	DUKE	DUKE×4	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
38	17-21	DUKE	DUKE×4	Blocked	Olivia Babcock	blk Olivia Wayne
39	17-22	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
40	17-23	PITT	PITT×3	Blocked	Nataly Moravec	blk Maaike Heilig, Olivia Babcock
41	17-24	PITT	PITT×3	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
42	18-24	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Nataly Moravec	set Nikki Quinn
43	18-25	DUKE	PITT	Serve err	Duke
Set 2
1	1-0	DUKE	DUKE	Kill	Taylor Williams	set Nikki Quinn
2	1-1	DUKE	PITT×4	Serve err	Duke
3	1-2	PITT	PITT×4	Blocked	Nataly Moravec	blk Olivia Babcock, Abbey Emch
4	1-3	PITT	PITT×4	Kill	Olivia Babcock
5	1-4	PITT	PITT×4	Kill	Ayanna Watson	set Izzy Starck
6	2-4	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Taylor Williams	set Nikki Quinn
7	2-5	DUKE	PITT×4	Serve err	Duke
8	2-6	PITT	PITT×4	Blocked	Nataly Moravec	blk Olivia Babcock, Abbey Emch
9	2-7	PITT	PITT×4	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
10	2-8	PITT	PITT×4	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
11	3-8	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
12	3-9	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
13	3-10	PITT	PITT×3	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Taylor Williams
14	3-11	PITT	PITT×3	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Taylor Williams
15	4-11	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Nataly Moravec	set Nikki Quinn
16	4-12	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
17	4-13	PITT	PITT×3	Blocked	Ashby Zubchevich	blk Maaike Heilig, Izzy Starck
18	4-14	PITT	PITT×3	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Ashby Zubchevich
19	5-14	PITT	DUKE	Serve err	Pittsburgh
20	5-15	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Sophia Gregoire	set Haiti Tautua'a
21	6-15	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Nataly Moravec	set Nikki Quinn
22	6-16	DUKE	PITT	Attack err	Ashby Zubchevich
23	7-16	PITT	DUKE	Attack err	Sophia Gregoire
24	7-17	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Ayanna Watson	set Haiti Tautua'a
25	7-18	PITT	PITT	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Ayanna Watson
26	8-18	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
27	8-19	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
28	8-20	PITT	PITT×3	Bad set	Nikki Quinn
29	8-21	PITT	PITT×3	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Trinity Thompson
30	9-21	PITT	DUKE×3	Kill	Taylor Williams	set Nikki Quinn
31	10-21	DUKE	DUKE×3	Ace	Duke	aced Marina Pezelj
32	11-21	DUKE	DUKE×3	Attack err	Blaire Bayless
33	11-22	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
34	12-22	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Carlyle Johnson	set Nikki Quinn
35	12-23	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
36	12-24	PITT	PITT×3	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Taylor Williams
37	12-25	PITT	PITT×3	Blocked	Nataly Moravec	blk Maaike Heilig, Blaire Bayless, Izzy Starck
Set 3
1	0-1	PITT	PITT	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Trinity Thompson
2	0-2	PITT	PITT	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
3	1-2	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Mailinh Godschall
4	1-3	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Marina Pezelj	set Izzy Starck
5	1-4	PITT	PITT	Blocked	Ashby Zubchevich	blk Abbey Emch, Olivia Babcock
6	2-4	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nataly Moravec
7	3-4	DUKE	DUKE	Kill	Nataly Moravec	set Avery Hamlin
8	3-5	DUKE	PITT	Serve err	Duke
9	4-5	PITT	DUKE×3	Kill	Taylor Williams	set Nikki Quinn
10	5-5	DUKE	DUKE×3	Blocked	Olivia Babcock	blk Breonna Goss, Nataly Moravec
11	6-5	DUKE	DUKE×3	Ace	Duke	aced Blaire Bayless
12	6-6	DUKE	PITT	Serve err	Duke
13	7-6	PITT	DUKE	Serve err	Olivia Babcock
14	7-7	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
15	8-7	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Taylor Williams	set Nikki Quinn
16	8-8	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
17	9-8	PITT	DUKE	Attack err	Marina Pezelj
18	9-9	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
19	9-10	PITT	PITT	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
20	10-10	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
21	10-11	DUKE	PITT×3	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
22	10-12	PITT	PITT×3	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Marina Pezelj
23	10-13	PITT	PITT×3	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
24	11-13	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
25	11-14	DUKE	PITT×6	Serve err	Duke
26	11-15	PITT	PITT×6	Kill	Maaike Heilig
27	11-16	PITT	PITT×6	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Nataly Moravec
28	11-17	PITT	PITT×6	Kill	Maaike Heilig	set Izzy Starck
29	11-18	PITT	PITT×6	Attack err	Ashby Zubchevich
30	11-19	PITT	PITT×6	Kill	Blaire Bayless	set Izzy Starck
31	12-19	PITT	DUKE×3	Kill	Breonna Goss	set Nikki Quinn
32	13-19	DUKE	DUKE×3	Ace	Duke	aced Marina Pezelj
33	14-19	DUKE	DUKE×3	Attack err	Blaire Bayless
34	14-20	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Olivia Babcock	set Izzy Starck
35	15-20	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Ashby Zubchevich	set Nikki Quinn
36	15-21	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Maaike Heilig	set Izzy Starck
37	16-21	PITT	DUKE	Kill	Olivia Wayne	set Nikki Quinn
38	17-21	DUKE	DUKE	Kill	Olivia Wayne	set Mallorie Meyer
39	17-22	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Marina Pezelj	set Izzy Starck
40	17-23	PITT	PITT	Blocked	Olivia Wayne	blk Abbey Emch
41	18-23	PITT	DUKE×3	Kill	Olivia Wayne	set Nikki Quinn
42	19-23	DUKE	DUKE×3	Attack err	Abbey Emch
43	20-23	DUKE	DUKE×3	Ace	Duke	aced Marina Pezelj
44	20-24	DUKE	PITT	Kill	Abbey Emch	set Izzy Starck
45	20-25	PITT	PITT	Ace	Pittsburgh	aced Nataly Moravec

Score shown after each rally, Duke first.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

Pittsburgh def. Duke 3–0

14 kills in 3 sets for Olivia Babcock. Pittsburgh swept Duke.