Volleyball Today: Huskers sweep; six NCAA bids claimed with 16 more on the line Sunday

Nebraska dominated Wisconsin, sweeping the Badgers again, to win its 25th match in a row and get one step closer to an unbeaten Big Ten season.

Arizona State beat Colorado to clinch the Big 12’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid.

Rutgers snapped its 17-match losing streak and won’t go oh-fer in the Big Ten after winning in four at Northwestern.

Six teams — New Hampshire, FGCU, Charleston, Yale, Chicago State and UT Arlington — won their respective conference tournaments and the automatic bids that went with them.

Sunday 16 more teams will win conference titles and some of them may be most unlikely NCAA participants after a rash of mid-major upsets Saturday.

There were reverse sweeps: Florida Atlantic pulled it off in its American Athletic tourney upset of Rice, and Wyoming did it to visiting Nevada in the Mountain West by the wacky scores of 22-25, 15-25, 25-7, 25-13, 15-9.

A conference-by-conference breakdown of Saturday’s results and what’s ahead Sunday follows.

On the sand, Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg took silver at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge in Chennai, India, after compatriots Molly Shaw and Toni Rodriguez won bronze.

And the Canadian men’s national-team coach has moved on.

It’s all in this edition of Volleyball Today:

NCAA volleyball regular season

Big Ten

The big result was second-ranked Nebraska’s 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 domination of visiting No. 6 Wisconsin. For more on the Huskers side of things, click here, and for the Wisconsin recap, click here.

On the other end of the B1G spectrum, Rutgers won 23-25, 25-17, 25-23, 25-23 at Northwestern to improve to 6-23, 1-17. The Scarlet Knights have two more chances to match last year’s B1G mark of 2-18. 

Tenth-ranked Purdue swept visiting No. 20 USC, No. 14 Oregon swept at Michigan, 

Minnesota swept visiting Iowa, Michigan State did the same to visiting Maryland, and UCLA won in four at Illinois.

The two Sunday matches have No. 5 Penn State — now 1.5 games behind Nebraska — home for Washington and Indiana at Ohio State.

Big 12

Eighth-ranked Arizona State improved to 28-2, 16-1 as it clinched at least a tie for the league title with a four-set win at Colorado. It’s the first conference title…