NCAA Womens Volleyball

Huskers Ready for 300th Consecutive Sellout

Huskers Ready for 300th Consecutive Sellout


MATCH PREVIEW
• The fourth-ranked Nebraska volleyball team will celebrate its 300th consecutive regular-season sellout when it hosts Iowa on Friday at 6 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. 
• Friday’s match vs. Iowa will be televised on Nebraska Public Media and streamed on B1G+ (subscription required). 
• Sunday’s match at Ohio State 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.

CONSECUTIVE SELLOUT NO. 300

• All season and single-game tickets for the 2022 Nebraska volleyball season have been sold. The Huskers will celebrate their 300th consecutive regular-season sellout on Friday against Iowa. 

• The sellout streak dates back to 2001 at the approximately 4,000-capacity NU Coliseum. Despite moving into the 7,907-seat Bob Devaney Sports Center in 2013, the sellout streak continued. 

• Nebraska’s sellout streak is an NCAA women’s record. The Huskers have led the nation in attendance every season since moving into the Bob Devaney Sports Center in 2013. 

• Nebraska volleyball fans have continued to set the bar for attendance throughout the years: 

• Nebraska set a new school record for attendance – 8,632 – against No. 2 Stanford on Sept. 18, 2019. 

• A new NCAA attendance record was set at the 2021 NCAA Championship with 18,755 fans turning out to watch Wisconsin and Nebraska battle for the national title at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

• Eight of the top nine crowds in NCAA Volleyball history are all matches that have involved the Huskers.  

• When Nebraska played at Creighton on Sept. 7, 2022 at the CHI Health Center, a then-regular-season NCAA record crowd of 15,797 turned out to watch the Huskers defeat the Bluejays, 3-2. It shattered the previous regular-season record of 14,022 (set by Nebraska and Creighton in 2018). The record lasted nine days, however, as Wisconsin and Florida drew a crowd of 16,833 to the Kohl Center on Sept. 16. 

• Of the 14 largest…

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