NCAA volleyball: Stanford upsets Nebraska; Florida, Baylor, Marquette, WKU all win

Sleeping giant Stanford is fully awake.

This past Saturday, the Cardinal won at then-No. 3 Minnesota.

Tuesday, No. 9 Stanford did it again, winning at No. 2 Nebraska and serving notice with a 27-25, 25-22, 19-25, 27-25 victory that it’s one of the teams in the peleton trying to catch Texas.

It was one of 28 matches on Tuesday’s NCAA women’s volleyball schedule that included No. 16 Florida sweeping visiting Florida State, No. 14 Baylor sweeping North Texas, No. 19 Marquette sweeping Green Bay, and No. 21 Western Kentucky sweeping at Tennessee.

Jacksonville State won again and is 10-0.

There are 12 matches on the Wednesday schedule, highlighted by No. 3 Louisville at No. 13 Kentucky. It will be shown at 7 Eastern on ESPN, a significant TV milestone for the college game. Among the other matches  Wednesday, No. 25 Illinois plays Eastern Illinois for the first meeting between the schools since 2005 and the Illini’s first trip to Charleston since 1995; Kansas State heads to Kansas City; New Mexico, off to a 7-1 start, is home for Northern Arizona; Kennesaw State is home for UAB; and American plays host to Morgan State.

You can find the viewing links on the VolleyballMag.com TV & Streaming Listings page.

STANFORD BEATS NEBRASKA: The Devaney Center at Nebraska was stuffed to the rafters with 8,385 fans as Stanford dealt the Huskers (7-1) their first loss. 

It was not a pretty match, not with Stanford having 23 serving errors and hitting .211, while Nebraska had 14 serving errors and hit .166. But it was hyper-competitive between two teams that will be in the hunt in December.

Kendall Kipp led Stanford with 15 kills, an assist, an ace, four blocks and seven digs and had seven of those serving errors. Elia Rubin had 13 kills, two assists, two aces, two blocks and seven digs. Caitie Baird had 10 kills, an assist, two blocks and eight digs. Sami Francis had eight kills, five blocks and three digs, and McKenna Vicini had six kills in nine errorless attacks, an assist, five blocks and three digs. Setter Kami Miner had three kills, 41 assists, an ace, two blocks and 14 digs. Libero Elena Ogiivie had 21 digs and six assistss. 

Madi Kubik had 13 kills for Nebraska to go with an ace and 15 digs. Whitney Lauenstein had 11 kills, two aces, three blocks and seven digs. Lindsay Krause had nine kills, an assist, two blocks and two digs. Maggie…