LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) – The top-ranked Nebraska volleyball team hosts an NCAA regional final for the third straight year on Sunday at John Cook Arena at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. No. 1 Nebraska will face No. 6 Texas A&M at 2 p.m. on ABC.
ABOUT THE HUSKERS
• Nebraska (33-0) finished the regular season undefeated for the third time in its history (1994 and 2000), losing just seven sets overall and one in the Big Ten.
• Nebraska’s 33-game winning streak is the second-longest winning streak in school history in the NCAA era. The Huskers have won at least 33 games in three straight seasons.
• The Huskers also hold a nation-best 63-game home winning streak, tied for the second-longest home winning streak in program history. Nebraska has won 29 consecutive NCAA Tournament games played at the Devaney Center, a school record.
• The Huskers won their third straight Big Ten title with a perfect 20-0 conference record. It was the Huskers’ first undefeated conference season since 2004 in the Big 12.
• Nebraska has now won 37 all-time conference titles, including six in the Big Ten (2011, 2016, 2017, 2023, 2024, 2025).
• The Huskers have won three straight conference titles for the first time since 2004-08.
• Dani Busboom Kelly became the first volleyball coach in Big Ten history to win the conference title in his first year as the school’s head coach. John Cook won a Big Ten title at Nebraska in his first year in the conference in 2011, but at the time it was his 12th season as head coach at Nebraska.
• Nebraska has hit over .400 nine times this season, a school record in the rally scoring era.
• Nebraska is 95-0 this season in sets when reaching the red zone (20 points) first.
• The Huskers have won 48 straight home sets, tied for the second-longest streak in school history, behind only the 52 straight home sets won during the 2001-02 seasons.
• NU’s offense ranks first nationally with a .355 hitting percentage. The Huskers haven’t hit better than .300 in a season since 2007 (.327). The school record for winning percentage in a season is .331 in 1986.
• The Huskers rank first nationally in opponent hitting percentage at .121. NU led the country in opposing hitting percentage in 2022 and 2023 and finished sixth in 2024.
• The difference between Nebraska’s winning percentage and that of the opponent is 0.234, by far the best in the country. The next closest are USA (.149), Pittsburgh (.145) and Wisconsin (.144).
• Nebraska ranks fourth nationally in kills per set with 14.69.
• The Huskers are seventh nationally in assists per set with 13.47.
• Nebraska ranks 16th nationally with 2.74 blocks per set.
• Over the last five seasons (2021-25), Dani Busboom Kelly is 153-15 for a .911 winning percentage, which is the best of any Division I head coach during that span.
• Nebraska is 13-0 against ranked opponents this season. The 13 wins against ranked opponents are tied for the second-most in school history, one shy of the school record (14 in 1998).
• Nebraska played 24 sets in the month of October and went 24-0. In just two sets, one opponent reached 20 points (at Purdue – 23 in the first set and at Michigan State – 20 in the third set).
• Nebraska swept 15 straight matches and won 48 straight sets from late September to mid-November. Both were the longest such streaks since the 2007 team swept 17 straight matches and won 53 straight sets.
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