“This tournament has been something else. I mean, it’s just balance, the competitiveness, seemingly every single match and then the number of five-setters that have already happened, barely halfway through. It’s just, it’s unbelievable.”
What Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield said.
We got what we wanted — well, not those who arrived early at the Devaney Center who were rooting for the upset — albeit a couple of rounds early, when Nebraska will play Sheffield’s Wisconsin on Sunday for a spot in the national semifinals.
Friday’s four round-of-16 matches went to form, but not without the twists and turns that have made this NCAA Tournament so exciting and unpredictable.
Nonetheless … Creighton ended Texas’s two-year hold on the NCAA volleyball championship trophy, Penn State got past Marquette, Wisconsin survived a tremendous effort by Logan Lednicky and Texas A&M, and Nebraska took care of Dayton.
On Saturday, Pittsburgh, the top seed in its regional, will play host to third-seeded Kentucky at 5 p.m. Eastern. Then Louisville, the top-seed in its regional, plays second-seeded Stanford in a 7:30 p.m. match that should be in Palo Alto because Stanford should…
