MATCH PREVIEW
• The Nebraska volleyball team heads into the final two weeks of the regular season with another Friday-Sunday pair of matches. The sixth-ranked Huskers will play at Iowa on Friday at 6 p.m. before hosting No. 19 Purdue on Sunday at Noon.
• Friday’s match at Iowa will be streamed on B1G+ (subscription required).
• Sunday’s match vs. Purdue will be televised on BTN and streamed on FoxSports.com.
• The Huskers Radio Network will broadcast all the action on their radio affiliates, including 107.3 FM in Lincoln and AM 590 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
• With two weeks left in the regular season, the Huskers are in third place in the Big Ten standings at 14-2, behind Wisconsin and Ohio State at 15-1.
• Nebraska is hitting .249 as a team and is holding opponents to .125 hitting, which leads the nation. The Huskers rank 10th nationally at 2.76 blocks per set.
• In Big Ten matches only, Nebraska ranks first in opponent hitting percentage (.124), first in opponent kills allowed (10.96 per set) and first in opponent service aces allowed (0.65).
• Nebraska opened the season in a 5-1 system but has been in a 6-2 system since Sept. 1 against Loyola Marymount. Nicklin Hames (5.71 assists per set) and Anni Evans (4.35 assists per set) have run the 6-2 for the Huskers since Hames returned to the lineup on Oct. 14 against Penn State after a one-month absence with an injury.
• Hames, who is in her fifth season at NU, has 4,975 career assists and broke Fiona Nepo’s (1995-98) career assists school record on Oct. 22 at Illinois. Hames ranks sixth among active NCAA Division I setters in career assists. An exceptional defensive setter, Hames ranks second on the team in digs at 3.15 per set this season.
• Outside hitter Madi Kubik is averaging a team-high 3.23 kills per set and adds 2.26 digs per set. Kubik surpassed 1,000 career kills on Sept. 10 against Long Beach State, becoming the 24th Husker all-time to reach that mark.
• Outside hitter Whitney Lauenstein is averaging 3.04 kills per set and has a team-high 24 service aces….
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