Friday's winner will advance to the NCAA tournament (Gil Talbot).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A trip to the NCAA tournament will be on the line Friday night as the Harvard women's volleyball team hosts Yale in a one-match playoff at the Malkin Athletic Center. First serve is schedule for 7 p.m. and the match will be available for free live on the Ivy League Digital Network.

Ticket Information
Admission is free. Tickets will be distributed starting at 6 p.m.  There will be a block of tickets for Harvard and Yale students (Student ID required) until 6:30 p.m. At 6:30 p.m., any undistributed student tickets will become general admission. Tickets guarantee admission until 7 p.m. Tickets not redeemed for admission prior to 7 p.m. will only be honored based on capacity.

Free for Harvard Students!
Harvard Athletics will be giving away free Beat-Yale t-shirts and pizza to Harvard undergraduate students with a valid HUID in the Malkin Athletic Center beginning at 6 p.m. Students can also check in with the CrimZone Rewards App for points.

Ivy League Digital Network
After an incredibly successful inaugural year that saw over 1,000 events streamed live, The Ivy League Digital Network has returned for 2014-15, providing fans with unprecedented coverage of the Ivy League.

Multiple subscription options are available to fans including school-specific and league-wide passes. To learn more about the Ivy League Digital Network or to sign-up today, click here.

Social Stream
Use the all new Social Stream on GoCrimson.com to stay connected with the Crimson on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram this year. The Social Stream brings the conversation from all three platforms into one convenient location, allowing fans of all Harvard Athletics teams to monitor the action in real time.

How We Got Here
Harvard and Yale finished the regular season tied for the Ivy League title with identical 12-2 records, setting up Friday's one-match playoff to determine which school will earn the Ancient Eight's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Crimson has earned the right to host the match at the Malkin Athletic Center by virtue of sweeping Yale during the regular season.

This marks the fourth time in Ivy League history that a playoff has been needed, with the last coming in 2010 when Penn defeated Yale. Three of the four playoffs have involved just a single, winner-take-all match for the League's automatic bid.

The Ivy title is the second all-time for Harvard, having also won in 2004 when it was a four-way share resulting in a playoff. It is Yale's eighth title all-time, including five in a row and six in the last seven seasons.

Last Time Out
On the night they were recognized in front of family and friends for all their contributions over the past four years, Harvard volleyball's senior class of Kristen Casey and Caroline Walters led the team to a share of the Ivy League title with a 3-1 win over Cornell at the Malkin Athletic Center.

Walters finished the match hitting .667 with a season-high 15 kills and three blocks. Casey, meanwhile, totaled six digs and matched her career-high with three service aces.

Sophomores Corinne Bain and Grace Weghorst each registered a double-double in the victory, with Bain turning in 23 assists, 11 digs, eight kills and three blocks. Weghorst scored a match-high 16 kills to go with 12 digs, and also added two aces. Hannah Schmidt contributed 27 assists to help the Crimson to a combined .321 hitting percentage, with Caroline Holte notching eight kills, a .500 percentage and four blocks. Sindhu Vegesena, meanwhile, came up with 17 digs as Cornell (6-18, 3-11 Ivy League) was limited to a .192 percentage.

Raising The Bar
With a 19-4 record entering Friday, Harvard has turned in its highest win total since 1999 (20-13) while setting a new program mark for best win percentage (.826). This stands as the 10th time in program history that the Crimson has reached 15 wins and is the sixth time it has done so under head coach Jennifer Weiss. The 19 wins, meanwhile, stand as the fourth-most in program history.

With a 12-2 record against the Ivy League, Harvard has also set a new standard for most conference wins.

Cream of the Crop
Penn, Princeton and Yale had combined to win each of the last seven Ivy League titles and own a total of 32 conference championships amongst themselves. Harvard flipped the script on the perennial title contenders, however, going 6-0 against the trio for the first time in program history.

Just Keep Winning
Harvard has won each 11 straight matches to close out the regular season, marking the program's longest win streak since taking 13 in a row in 1997. 

All-Around Performer
Sophomore Corinne Bain possesses a unique skillset which allows to her impact the game in every facet. The Manhattan Beach, Calif., native currently ranks among the Ivy League's leaders in kills (12th, 2.61), assists (5th, 6.52), digs (15th, 3.09), blocks (20th, 0.59), hitting percentage (11th, .265) and service aces (1st, 0.46).

Tripling Up
Sophomore Corinne Bain has recorded an Ivy League record 10 triple-doubles this season, the most in the NCAA according to the most recent data made available by the AVCA. Bain became the first member of the Crimson to ever record a triple-double last season when she finished with six, ranking as the second highest total by a freshman in the nation.

Feeling Honored
Sophomore Corinne Bain earned her fourth Ivy League Player of the Week honor of the season on Nov. 11 after helping the Crimson to wins at Princeton and Penn. Bain's four awards are the second most in the conference this season, behind only Princeton's Kendall Peterkin who boasts five.

Along with her four player of the week honors, Bain has also been named to the Ivy League Honor Roll six times, receiving recognition from the conference each week of the season. As a freshman, the Manhattan Beach, Calif., native was named player of the week once and rookie of the week five times.

Nationally Known
Senior Caroline Walters was recognized as both the Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week and the Ivy League Player of the Week on Sept. 23. The San Mateo, Calif., native led the Crimson to a pair of wins the previous weekend, averaging 3.11 kps and 1.11 bps while hitting .422 against Northeastern and Boston College.

Walters' selection as the Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week marked the first time a member of the Ivy League had garnered the award on the women's side. Senior DJ White of the Harvard men's volleyball team earned the honor in 2013, becoming the first Ivy Leaguer overall to be named national player of the week. Walters' Ivy League Player of the Week honor, meanwhile, was the first of her career.

Getting In on the Act
Sophomore Grace Weghorst earned her first career Ivy League Player of the week honor Nov. 18 after averaging 3.86 kps, 2.71 dps and hitting .344 as Harvard defeated Columbia and Cornell to clinch a share of the program's first Ivy League championship since 2004. She scored 11 kills while hitting at a .333 clip on Friday versus the Lions, and recorded her fifth double-double of the season with 16 kills, 12 digs and a .351 percentage against the Big Red.

The award marked the second time Weghorst has been recognized by the conference office after having been named rookie of the week once in 2013.

Rookie on the Rise
Freshman Paige Kebe was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Oct. 14 after averaging 3.75 kps, 1.50 dps and hitting .281 in wins at Cornell and Columbia. Kebe's weekend included a career-best 22-kill performance at Columbia, with six of her kills coming in the fifth and deciding set.

Kebe's 22 kills against the Lions represent the third most by a member of the Crimson since 2008.

Can You Dig It?
Junior Sindhu Vegesena earned the starting role for the Crimson at libero and did not disappoint in the team's first weekend of action, averaging 5.91 dps in three matches at the Harvard Invitational and being named to the all-tournament team. Vegesena registered 22 digs in Harvard's first match of the year, a thrilling 3-2 victory over Santa Clara, before setting a new career-high with 34 digs in a 3-0 win over Central Connecticut State.

Vegesena's 34 digs against CCSU were the most by a member of the Crimson in a three-set match since 2008, the last year for which match-by-match statistics are available, and rank as the most in a three-set match in the NCAA this season.

Cardiac Crimson
The Crimson has displayed a flare for the dramatic this season en route to its 19-4 record. Harvard has trailed after the midway point in 24 of the 57 sets it has won, including a 21-14 deficit against Northeastern which resulted in a 25-23 victory.

Additionally, the Crimson has gone a full five sets on seven occasions, and has come out victorious in each.

Double-Doubles

Honors and Awards

Climbing The Charts
Several members of the Crimson are etching their names in the Harvard record book. For complete information, click here.

Home Court Advantage
Harvard has posted a 9-2 record at the Malkin Athletic Center this year, matching last year's squad for the best home court record in program history. The Crimson women, led by the senior class of Kristen Casey and Caroline Walters, have gone 31-13 at home over the past three years while the men's team has gone 25-7.

Behind the Crimson
GoCrimson.com spent a day with the women's volleyball team, beginning at 8 a.m. with the team's lift and concluding at 7:00 p.m. with a team meal. Go behind-the-scenes to see what a typical day is like for the Crimson.

Continuing the Momentum
Harvard finished the 2013 season with a 14-9 overall record and 9-5 in Ivy League play, good for second place in the Ancient Eight. The Crimson's 14 total wins and nine conference victories marked the most for the program since 2004, while its 9-2 record at home was a program best.

On The Sidelines
Harvard women's volleyball head coach Jennifer Weiss returns for her 22nd season at the helm of the Crimson. Weiss' has led Harvard to 284 wins during her tenure, and has guided the Crimson to Ivy League titles in 2004 and 2014. She has mentored 52 All-Ivy honorees, six Ivy League Rookie of the Year recipients and coached the program's first two-time Ivy League Player of the Year in Kaego Ogbechie '05.

Weiss is joined on the sidelines by second-year assistants Arturo Rivera and Jeffrey Aucoin.