OMAHA, Nebraska — Too much Texas.
Ten years after, the Longhorns are the NCAA volleyball champions again.
Texas, the favorite all season, swept Louisville 25-22, 25-14, 26-24 on Saturday night for its fourth — third in the NCAA — national title.
The Longhorns clinched it on an ace by Keonilei Akana, a Nebraska transfer playing in front of a crowd of 16,952 in the CHI Center that was cheering hard for Louisville and its coach, former Husker Dani Busboom Kelly.
But Texas denied her becoming the first woman to coach a team to the NCAA Division I championship and the ACC of winning its first title.
“I’ve been coaching 22 years at Texas and I think another six years or seven years at USC prior to that,” Texas coach Jerritt Elliott said. “And I told my wife today this was the most important match I’ve ever coached in regards to the match I wanted to win the most because of the two women sitting beside me but also the 16 women that were battling every single day in our gym.
“As a coach, when you manage teams, there’s a lot of problems, sometimes. And this team I didn’t have one the entire season. Everybody gave. They were committed to the process. That’s because of our leadership.
“And why it was so important to me is because…
