No. 1 Nebraska swept Iowa 25-12, 25-15, 25-17 on Saturday at John Cook Arena at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, Nebraska Athletics announced. The Huskers are 27-0 and 16-0 in the Big Ten. Iowa is 13-17 and 2-14.
The university said it is Nebraska’s seventh 27-0 start in program history. The Huskers hit .457 as a team and held Iowa to a .026 hitting percentage. It was the fourth straight match Nebraska has hit .400 or better, the first time the program has done that in the rally-scoring era, the official recap said.
Senior Andi Jackson led the attack with nine kills on .750 hitting. Harper Murray also had nine kills. Virginia Adriano and Skyler Pierce each had six. Bergen Reilly finished with 35 assists and three blocks. Manaia Ogbechie and Pierce led the team with four blocks each.
Nebraska hit .682 in the first set, .400 in the second and .345 in the third. Iowa led 7-4 in the third set before a 6-0 Nebraska run. The official notes also list a school-record 58-match regular-season winning streak, dating to 2024, and a 65-match regular-season home winning streak, including 63 in a row at John Cook Arena.
The regular-season finale is at home against Minnesota on Tuesday, Nov. 17. First serve is 7:30 p.m. on BTN, the university said.
Featured image: Photo: Joyce N. Boghosian. Public domain. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nebraska_volleyball_2007.jpg. File photo of the 2006 NCAA champion Nebraska volleyball team at the White House in 2007, not from Senior Day against Iowa.
