Huskers Host Stanford Tuesday Night

• The No. 2 Nebraska volleyball team faces its first top-10 opponent this season with a showdown against No. 9 Stanford on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. 
• The Nebraska-Stanford match pairs two of the most consistent NCAA volleyball programs of all-time. Nebraska and Stanford are the top two programs in the country in most weeks ranked in the AVCA Poll and most weeks ranked in the Top 10. 
• Tuesday’s match will be televised on BTN with Larry Punteney and Emily Ehman on the call. The match will be 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

• The Huskers are hitting .279 as a team and holding their opponents to .107 hitting, the No. 2 mark in the nation. 

• Nebraska ranks sixth nationally in kills per set (14.30) and 16th in assists per set (12.91). 

• Outside hitter Whitney Lauenstein is averaging a team-high 3.74 kills per set with a team-leading .367 hitting percentage to go with 1.09 blocks per set. Lauenstein had a career-high 25 kills on .385 hitting in the win at Creighton last week. 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 3.43 kills per set and 2.13 digs per set. Kubik surpassed 1,000 career kills over the weekend, becoming the 24th Husker all-time to reach that mark. 

• Middle blocker Kaitlyn Hord is averaging 1.43 kills and a team-best 1.57 blocks per set, which ranks 12th nationally. Hord ranks among the NCAA active career leaders in three categories. Entering the week, the Penn State grad transfer ranked No. 2 among active NCAA Division I players in career blocks (558), blocks per set (1.32) and is No. 3 in career hitting percentage (.405). 

• Lindsay Krause had a career-high 16 kills in the victory at Creighton last week and averages 2.25 kills per set for the Big Red.

• Senior Nicklin Hames has been the leading…