A booming thud seemed to cement the redemption rout. Before a raucous crowd littered with red in Penn State’s Rec Hall, the No. 1 Husker volleyball team was on the verge of decisively taking the first set from the team that had blocked them from a national title appearance one year earlier.
Nebraska needed one more point. Then came the thud — an arching volley smacked down to the court with such force that the Nittany Lions had no time to react.
“How fitting that it ends that way from Rebekah Allick,” exclaimed the announcer on the Oct. 3 telecast…