Volleyball Today: Huskers sweep Wisconsin; Miami, Mizzou score upsets; Athletes Unlimited

What a Friday in NCAA Division I volleyball:

— No. 2 Nebraska not only won for the first time since 2013 at Wisconsin, the Huskers swept the No. 7 Badgers;

— Unranked Miami, which earlier this season upset then-No. 1 Texas, was down 24-22 in the fourth, came back to win the set 31-29 and then upset No. 6 Stanford by winning the fifth 16-14; 

— Unranked Missouri won in five at No. 7 Texas and is tied with the Longhorns and Kentucky atop the SEC at 7-2; 

— There were, of course, reverse sweeps on a day when most matches were done in three sets. Youngstown State pulled off a reverse sweep against visiting Oakland in the Horizon League, Central Michigan did it at Ohio in the MAC and Evansville did it to visiting Illinois State in the Missouri Valley.

Lines of the day: Speaking of Evansville, NCAA kills leader Giulia Cardona, the Argentinian senior who hits outside for the Purple Aces, had 34 kills, hit .453, and had two aces, three blocks and eight digs. Cardona, who has had 30 or more kills six times this season, has 518 kills, well ahead of Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (437 kills), who had 19 Friday in a sweep of UC Santa Barbara.

UC Riverside won its Big West match in five at Long Beach State as Trinity Sheridan had 31 kills, hit .324, and had 10 digs and three blocks, one solo. 

James Madison lost in five to Sun Belt-leading South Alabama, but Bre Reid had 28 kills, an ace, 13 digs and two blocks.

Baylor’s Elise McGhee had 24 kills — eight kills per set — in a Big 12 sweep of Colorado, hitting .475, and added eight digs and two blocks.

Duke’s Mailinh Godschall had 37 digs and three assists in a five-set ACC loss to Georgia Tech.

And Jayln Stout, the 5-foot-10 setter for Coastal Carolina, had 15 kills with one error in 34 attacks, 19 assists, an ace, 18 digs and a block in the Chanticleers’ four-set Sun Belt win over Georgia Southern.

Athletes Unlimited started its last weekend of its season. The details follow in this edition of Volleyball Today:

NCAA volleyball Saturday

There’s one ACC match when No. 4 Louisville goes to Notre Dame, a team it swept this past Wednesday.

In the Big 12, No. 8 Kansas is home for West Virginia. No. 13 Arizona State goes to No. 22 Utah, No. 23 BYU is home for Arizona and UCF goes to Texas Tech.

No. 12 Oregon is home for UCLA in the Big Ten, which also has No. 10 Purdue at Rutgers and Indiana…