Nebraska Volleyball dominated in their second straight NCAA Tournament game against an old Big 12 opponent Friday night, as the Huskers swept Kansas in the NCAA Sweet 16, 3-0 (25-12, 25-11, 25-12). They’ll take on Texas A&M Sunday at 2PM in the Elite Eight.
The Huskers would keep KU to a season low .029 hitting percentage, while out-blocking Kansas 10-1 and out-digging the Jayhawks 48-30.
Nebraska would start out with a 4-0 lead in the first set, which would then be pushed out to a 12-3 lead. KU was forced to use both of their timeouts in the first fifteen points. Kansas would get to their closest point in the match being down 13-6, but Rebekah Allick would get four straight kills to push their lead back out to double digits. Nebraska would extend their lead in the first set to 21-8, while winning the set 25-12 on a kill from Taylor Landfair.
The second set was much closer than the first set early on, as Nebraska and Kansas were neck and neck through the first 16 points, with Nebraska leading 9-7, but a 5-0 run led by Harper Murray and Rebekah Allick kills, and a Virginia Adriano block. Nebraska’s lead would further push out to 20-9 after kills from Allick, Adriano, and Murraym and an ace from Lainey Choboy would end the second set.
The third set started quickly with two kills from Teraya Sigler, followed by Taylor Landfair and Andi Jackson kills to puck Nebraska’s early lead to 9-4. Nebraska would go on a blistering run leading 20-9 with kills from Murray, Jackson, and Manaia Ogbechie to push Nebraska’s lead out to that point, and the Huskers would close their dominant performance with a Landfair kill followed by a KU attack error.
Rebekah Allick was a perfect 1.000 on her hitting performance with 9 kills, while Andi Jackson had 9 kills and Harper Murray added 7. The Huskers also had six aces, with Olivia Mauch having three of them.
Texas A&M is 26-4 on the season with their reverse sweep of Louisville earlier in the evening. The Aggies defeated Campbell and TCU in the first two rounds of the tournament.
