Lincoln Arneal

Lincoln Arneal

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I cover Nebraska volleyball for HuskersIllustrated, co-host the Volleyball State podcast, tweet national stories & write about pro volleyball. Email volleyballstate@gmail.com.

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Nebraska checks in at No. 2 behind Penn State for PrepDig’s top 2027 recruiting class. Michigan State (#9) is the only other Big Ten team in the top 10.

Harper Murray will make one more trip to her hometown this weekend as Nebraska plays at Michigan on Friday night. Murray will be welcomed back by almost 1,000 people associated with Legacy Volleyball Club. “It’s going to be a fun day,” Murray said. roundtable.io/sports/ncaa/...

roundtable.ioMurray Returns to Her Hometown for Legacy Night against MichiganThe NU senior outside hitter will play in front of almost 1,000 fans associated with her club team in her final trip to Ann Arbor

According to officials at AVCA, the National Freshman of the Year Award is only available to true freshmen, who are "competing in their first year of collegiate competition in their first year enrolled in college." Thus, redshirt freshmen are not eligible for the award.

Andi Jackson was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. This is the third time she's won the award (Oct. 28, 2024; Oct. 20, 2025) The senior middle blocker averaged 1.67 blocks per set against USC and UCLA and helped limit them to a .065 hitting percentage.

Jackson is the third Husker to win the award this season, joining Olivia Mauch (Oct. 19) and Manaia Ogbechie (Oct. 12). She's also one of four NU players to be named the league's player of the week: Ogbechie (Sept. 14), Jackson (Sept 28 & Oct. 5), Harper Murray (Oct. 12) and Teraya Sigler (Oct. 19)

LOVB Nebraska will return to Grand Island for two matches at the BigIron Events Center. They played a match at the arena last year in front of a sold-out crowd. Dates, times and opponents for both matches will be announced later.

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LOVB Nebraska announced that the team will play a match at the Bob Devaney Sports Center during the 2026-27 season. The match details and opponent will be announced later with LOVB Pro’s full schedule. Presale begins Wednesday, Nov. 18, with tickets going on sale to the public later that day.

Big Ten Weekly Awards 10/26 Player: Kennedy Martin, OPP, Penn State Defensive: Andi Jackson, MB, Nebraska Setter: Alexis Stucky, Penn State Freshman: Decelise Champion, OPP, Wisconsin

Nebraska and Pitt are unanimous 1-2 in this week's AVCA poll. Louisville is third and followed by Florida, SMU and Tennessee. Kentucky falls three spots to No. 7. Wisconsin is now No. 8 ahead of BYU, ASU. Michigan State returns to rankings at No. 25 ahead of its match with the Huskers on Saturday.

1 Nebraska (63) — 2 Pittsburgh — 3 Louisville — 4 Florida +1 5 SMU +2 6 Tennessee +3 7 Kentucky -3 8 Wisconsin -2 9 BYU +2 10 Arizona State -2 11 Purdue +1 12 Oregon -2 13 Penn State +3 14 Texas — 15 Kansas +2

16 TCU -3 17 Texas A&M +2 18 Stanford -3 19 Indiana -1 20 Washington +1 21 Minnesota -1 22 North Carolina +1 23 Vanderbilt -1 24 Baylor — 25 Michigan State NR

My ballot: 1. Nebraska (21-0) 2. Pitt (19-1) 3. Louisville (20-2) 4. Florida (17-2) 5. SMU (16-4) 6. Tennessee (16-3) 7. Kentucky (15-5) 8. BYU (17-1) 9. Wisconsin (14-6) 10. Arizona St (16-4) 11. Oregon (17-3) 12. Purdue (13-6) 13. Vandy (15-3) 14. Penn St (15-5) 15. TCU (15-5) 16. Texas (10-7)

LOVB Nebraska announced that the team will play a match at the Bob Devaney Sports Center during the 2026-27 season. The match details and opponent will be announced later with LOVB Pro’s full schedule. Presale begins Wednesday, Nov. 18, with tickets going on sale to the public later that day.

The Omaha Supernovas announced the creation of the MLV John Cook Invitational for next season. The Supernovas will play the Los Angeles Thunder on Sunday, Feb. 28 at John Cook Arena in Lincoln. Pre-sale tickets start Nov. 4, with general ticket sales beginning Nov. 12.

RPI Standings 10/26 1 Pittsburgh 0.75204 2 Nebraska 0.74188 3 Florida 0.71883 4 Wisconsin 0.71793 5 Louisville 0.71754 6 SMU 0.70478 7 Oregon 0.70458 8 Kentucky 0.70454 9 BYU 0.69559 10 Penn St. 0.69112 11 Arizona St. 0.69034 12 Tennessee 0.68586 13 Vanderbilt 0.67702 14 Washington 0.67270

15 Texas 0.66991 16 TCU 0.66947 17 UCLA 0.65858 18 Purdue 0.65834 19 Baylor 0.65678 20 Kansas 0.65481 21 Minnesota 0.64848 22 Indiana 0.64723 23 Western Ky. 0.64682 24 North Carolina 0.64553 25 Texas A&M 0.64505

Behind an 8-0 service run from Addison West, No. 23 North Carolina knocks off No. 15 Stanford 15-11 in the fifth set. Hampton led UNC with 15 kills while Taylor added 13 kills and 14 blocks. Blyashov had 20 kills and 12 digs for the Cardinal. Andrew with 14 kills and 11 blocks.

West added 11 kills for the Tar Heels. Cozza put up 17 assists and 16 digs while Behrendt added 27 assists. UNC outhit Stanford .154 Kurt finished with 12 kills for Stanford. Andrews had 7 kills and 8 blocks. Parks with 45 asst. The match finished with 3 straight service errors

No. 17 Kansas completes the reverse sweep against No. 24 Baylor, winning the final 3 sets 25-21, 25-21, 15-13. Nelson, Ptacek and Stanley all finished with 13 kills for KU. Dean added 11 kills as Messer had 53 assists. Aiono had 9 kills and 7 block. Rakhmanchik with 26 kills.

No. 16 Penn State picks up a 25-16, 22-25, 25-16, 25-21 road win over No. 18 Indiana. Martin put up 21 kills at a .514 clip for the Nittany Lions. Lauenstein added 14 kills. PSU hit .376 for the match as Stucky had 45 assists. Falduto with 4 aces. Tatum with 17 kills for IU.

No. 20 Minnesota sweeps No. 21 Washington 17, 17, 20. Wucherer put up 11 kills and 11 digs. Kinney added 10 digs while Crosson had 9 kills and 6 blocks. The Gophers hit .297. The Huskies hit .105 with 21 errors. Mateska and Wessels finished 9 kills each. Nguyen had 16 digs.

No. 6 Wisconsin dropped the first set against Michigan 25-20, but wins the next 3 25-20, 18, 22. (The match ended on four straight missed serves). Champion led the Badgers with 20 kills while hitting .341. Flanagan had 11 kills and Travis added 10. Demetrician had 20 kills for the Wolverines.

No. 9 Tennessee fights off No. 22 Vanderbilt 25-15, 20-25, 25-16, 25-22. Rogers led the Lady Vols with 18 kills while Dostic added 11. UT hit .254 for the match as Kerr had 40 assists and 14 digs. Vendy hit .144 with 25 hitting errors. Wunsch led the Commodores with 15 kills.

UPSET: No. 19 Texas A&M goes into Lexington and sweeps No. 4 Kentucky 20, 23, 21. Manning started at setter for the Aggies and tallied 36 assists. Stowers finished with 16 kills at a .314 clip and 10 digs. Ring added 12 kills. DeLeye had 14 kill and hit .353, but UK hit .163.

Opposite was the Wildcats weakness today as Thigpen and Watson combined for 1 kill, 8 errors on 18 attacks. Carr put up 6 kills and 6 blocks. Sharp added 6 kills and 7 blocks for the Aggies, who won a rematch of the national title match.

Nebraska received an all-around effort in its sweep of USC. Virginia Adriano had a season-best 13 kills and Keoni Williams stood out off the bench. “The urgency, no matter what the score is, and no matter who’s on the court, was really impressive tonight.” roundtable.io/sports/ncaa/...

roundtable.ioNebraska Ties Regular-Season Win Streak with Sweep Over USCWilliams, Adriano help the Huskers earned their 52nd-straight win in the regular season in a balanced, dominant effort

No. 11 BYU defending its home court with a 20-25, 25-14, 25-19, 25-23 win over No. 8 Arizona State. Callahan led the Cougars with 13 kills on a .476 hitting percentage. Mortensen and Little Chambers finished with 12 kills. BYU outhit ASU .261 to .160. Glover and Schalk had 13 kills each for ASU.

FINAL: No. 1 Nebraska cruises to a 25-12, 25-16, 25-13 win over USC. The Huskers hit .400 led by 14 kills from Murray (.462) and 13 from Adriano (.500). Jackson hit .500 with 8 kills. Reilly finishes with 34 assists and 8 digs. Mauch with 10 digs and 8 assists.

Williams finished with a career best 4 kills. Jackson added 4 blocks. USC hit .095, the third time this season they've been under .100. Ford led the Trojans with 7 kills and 2 blocks. Tvrdy had 5 kills and Douglas had a dig.

After the time out, Ryan Hunter checks in for Adriano and Campbell Flynn comes in for Reilly.

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It's not 18-9 Nebraska as Sigler is on a 7-0 run. She notched an ace before Adriano recorded her 13th kill of the match and is now hitting .500. USC is hitting .000 this set with just 3 kills on 24 attacks.

It's not 18-9 Nebraska as Sigler is on a 7-0 run. She notched an ace before Adriano recorded her 13th kill of the match and is now hitting .500. USC is hitting .000 this set with just 3 kills on 24 attacks.

Nebraska leads 15-9 at the third set media timeout. Murray is up to 11 kills on a .476 hitting percentage. Her 11th kill came on a first-touch kill as she tried to catch USC asleep. They failed to control it and got the point.

After USC closed to 8-7 after back-to-back NU hitting errors, the Huskers respond with 3 straight kills for an 11-7 advantage. NU is hitting .176 this set. Adriano leads the way with 11 kills. Murray has 9. USC has just 3 kills this set.

Taylor Deckert is back on the court at libero for USC to start the third set. Douglas played the entire second set and Deckert wasn't on the bench for most of it. Douglas remains the second libero on the bench.

Nebraska goes up 2-0 on USC after claiming the second set 25-16. NU hit .483 in the set. Adriano has 9 kills. Murray is hitting .533 with 8 kills and Jackson has 7 kills on 10 swings. Mauch with 9 digs and the only ace of the match. Ford leads the Trojans with 6 kills (.500).

Adriano goes with a two-handed push attack and is given the kill on a touch call. USC challenges saying they didn't touch it. The call is overturned and the Huskers' lead is now 20-14.

USC uses its first timeout down 19-13 to Nebraska in the second set. Williams with her fourth kill. Murray is up to 7 on 12 errorless swings. The Huskers are hitting .500 this set with 14 kills on 22 attacks. Ford and Wijay have joined Tvrdy in the 4 kill club for USC.

Nebraska is up 15-10 on USC at the second set media timeout. Quite the front row run for Williams as she terminates all 3 attacks. Jackson has 6 kills on 8 swings. NU is hitting .579 this set. Tvrdy has 4 kills to lead the Trojans, who are hitting .286 this set.

No. 10 Oregon pulls out a 24-26, 25-23, 25-19, 26-24 win over Ohio State. Donkers led five attackers in double-digit kills with 13. Crownover had 47 assists and 11 digs. Ohio State was up 21-18 in the second and 24-22 in the fourth, but couldn't close out either set.

USC libero Taylor Deckert took a third hard shot to the upper body/head last in the set. She was subbed out for Townsend. Skutt graduate Paisley Douglas will start the second at the libero after she changed jerseys between sets.

Nebraska runs away with the first set 25-12 on USC. The Huskers hit .471 led by 6 kills from Adriano. Murray added 5 kills. Reilly put up 13 assists as NU had 19 kills in the set. Mauch with 6 digs. Four Trojans recorded two kills as they hit .118.

Choboy with a pancake digs that is converted into a kill from Sigler. The Huskers are up 19-10 on USC in the first set. The Huskers are hitting .400 with 15 kills. Murray with 4 kills on 8 swings so far. Mauch already up to 6 digs.