The No. 23 Western Kentucky volleyball team closed out its final match before opening Conference USA play with a win over a red-hot St. John's team on Saturday.
The Lady Toppers used a strong defensive performance to snap the Red Storm's eight-match winning streak with a 3-0 (25-14, 25-21, 25-14) straight-set victory at E.A. Diddle Arena in the WKU Volleyball Invitational.
"I always talk about there's three levels of defenses in our game – there's serving, there's blocking and there's floor defense – and to do the job we did today against St. John's, you have to be pretty good at all of them and we were," WKU head coach Travis Hudson said.