- One of the most exciting Big Ten Conference races in recent memory will culminate this week, as No. 3 Wisconsin, No. 5 Nebraska and No. 8 Ohio State all will face one another with a chance to earn the Big Ten championship. The Big Ten Network will televise both matches played by Wisconsin and Nebraska live this weekend — their head-to-head matchup Friday in Lincoln (8 p.m. ET), as well as a Saturday night doubleheader when the Badgers visit OSU (7 p.m. ET) and the Huskers play host to No. 9 Minnesota (9 p.m. ET), with the latter being the final match of the Big Ten regular season.
- This week’s Big Ten schedule is jam-packed with five Top 25 matches, four top-10 contests and a top-five blockbuster between No. 3 Wisconsin and No. 5 Nebraska. Already this season (even before this week’s matches), there have been 15 top-10 contests to feature at least one Big Ten team, with seven of those coming in conference play.
- The 2022 NCAA Tournament Selection Show will be televised live Sunday (Nov. 27) at 7:30 p.m. (ET) on ESPNU. Wisconsin is the defending NCAA national champion, edging Nebraska, 3-2 in an all-Big Ten Conference final (before a record crowd of 18,755 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus). In addition, eight conference schools were selected to participate in last year’s NCAA Tournament and five earned top-16 national seeds. At least one Big Ten program has reached the NCAA national semifinals (Final Four) each year since 2007, with at least one member institution advancing to the NCAA national championship match 12 times in that 15-year span. What’s more, the Big Ten has sent two representatives to eight of the past 10 NCAA Final Fours (since 2012). Current Big Ten schools have won a total of 12 national championships (10 while competing as a member of the conference).
- No. 3 Wisconsin is going in search of its fourth consecutive Big Ten Conference title and ninth all-time, which would place the Badgers in elite company. Only twice has a school captured four Big Ten volleyball championships in a row, and both times it was Penn State (eight from 2003-10 and four from 1996-99), which also has a conference-best 17 titles all-time (the most recent coming in 2017). The only other school to…
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