Nebraska won for the 22nd time in a row as the No. 2 Huskers beat visiting No. 16 Minnesota in four sets in the Big Ten on Thursday.
There were no upsets and there were four five-set matches and, incredibly, none resulted in reverse sweeps in this season of the reverse sweep.
Line of the day: Red-hot Tori Hester had a season-high 35 kills in Troy’s Sun Belt loss to App State. She hit .291 and had four assists, an ace, nine digs and a block. It’s the third match in a row in which she’s 30 or more kills.
And the AVCA pared its national-player-of-the-year list to 14.
It’s all in this edition of Volleyball Today:
NCAA volleyball Friday
Two SEC teams riding winning streaks square off in the ACC when No. 21 Florida, which has won seven in a row, goes to No. 25 Missouri, which has won nine in a row. No. 13 Texas is at Auburn, Georgia is at Tennessee, Mississippi State goes to Alabama and Arkansas is at Ole Miss.
The only match of the eight in the ACC involving two ranked teams has No. 1 Pittsburgh home for No. 22 Florida State. Third-ranked Louisville is home for Duke, No. 9 SMU is home for Miami, No. 7 Stanford is home for Virginia Tech, No. 16 Georgia Tech is home for Syracuse, Boston College is at…
