Huskers Back at Home to Face Long Beach State

• Fresh off a thrilling 3-2 win over No. 17 Creighton in front of a regular-season NCAA record crowd at the CHI Health Center, the Nebraska volleyball team returns home for a 3 p.m. match against Long Beach State on Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. 
• Saturday’s match will not be televised but will be streamed at BigTenPlus.com (subscription required). 
• The Huskers Radio Network will broadcast all the action on their radio affiliates, including 107.3 FM in Lincoln and 105.9 FM in Omaha. A live audio stream will be provided at Huskers.com and the Huskers app. John Baylor is in his 29th season doing play-by-play for the Husker volleyball program. Lauren (Cook) West, a former All-America setter for the Huskers, will provide color commentary.

NOTING THE HUSKERS

• Outside hitter Whitney Lauenstein is averaging a team-high 3.70 kills per set with a team-leading .365 hitting percentage to go with 1.05 blocks per set. Lauenstein had a career-high 25 kills on .385 hitting in the win at Creighton. It was the most kills by a Husker in a match since Mikaela Foecke had 27 kills in the NCAA Championship match against Stanford in 2018. 

• Outside hitter Madi Kubik is averaging 3.55 kills per set and 2.25 digs per set. Kubik enters Saturday’s match with 996 career kills and is four away from becoming the 24th Husker all-time to record 1,000 career kills at Nebraska. 

• Middle blocker Kaitlyn Hord is averaging 1.45 kills and a team-best 1.60 blocks per set, which is the best block average by a Husker since 2005 (Melissa Elmer, 2.17). Hord ranks among the NCAA active career leaders in three categories. Entering the week, the grad transfer ranked No. 2 among active NCAA Division I players in career blocks (548), blocks per set (1.32) and is No. 3 in career hitting percentage (.408). 

• Lindsay Krause had a career-high 16 kills in the victory at Creighton and averages 2.29 kills per set for the Big Red.

• Senior Nicklin Hames has been the leading setter for the Husker attack since switching to a 6-2 system on Sept. 1. Hames has averaged 7.09 assists per set in the last three matches to go with 2.95 digs per set this season. Hames is one ace away from joining Allison Weston at No. 10 on the all-time career aces chart at Nebraska. In the match at Creighton, Hames moved to fourth in school…