Nebraska improved to 13-0 with a Friday sweep at No. 16 Penn State. Here are three quick sideouts on the match and the Huskers.
Historic domination
Penn State scored the first two points of Friday’s match. And then Nebraska won 20 of the next 23 rallies.
The Huskers’ annihilation of Penn State sent you scrambling for a media guide. The six points the Nittany Lions recorded in the first set were their lowest of the rally-scoring era.
Nebraska’s .437 hitting percentage was a season high. And with Penn State committing 10 more attack errors (26) than their kill total (16), it may be hard to find a lower hitting percentage in PSU program history than -.114.
Only three Penn State players recorded kills in the match, which lasted just 78 minutes. The brevity threw Fox for such a loop that it needed to play about 30 minutes of nearly uninterrupted commercials to meet their advertising obligations in the two-hour broadcast block.
Rebekah Allick backed it up
Nebraska didn’t seem afraid that anything they said this week would show up on Penn State’s bulletin board. Especially not when Rebekah Allick said on Wednesday she had “a grudge” against the Nittany Lions beating the Huskers in last year’s Final Four.
The storyline of the week became revenge. And Allick took it. The senior from Waverly is making a case for a first-team All-American season. Her team-high nine kills and .615 hitting percentage on Friday were the latest piece of evidence…