Huskers Open NCAA Tournament vs. Delaware State – University of Nebraska

The Nebraska volleyball group was chosen because the No. 7 total seed for the 2022 Division I Girls’s Volleyball Championship on Sunday night time and can host the primary and second rounds on the Bob Devaney Sports activities Middle this Thursday and Friday. 
 
The Huskers, making their forty first straight NCAA Match look and internet hosting the primary spherical for the thirty seventh time, will open the match on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. towards Delaware State (24-6), champions of the Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention. The 4:30 p.m. match will function Kansas (18-10) of the Massive 12 Convention and Miami (19-10) of the Atlantic Coast Convention. Thursday’s winners will meet within the second spherical on Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.
 
Texas, Louisville, Wisconsin and Stanford obtained the highest 4 seeds. Ought to these groups all advance previous the second spherical, they’d host an NCAA Regional on Dec. 8-10. Nebraska is in the identical area as No. 2 Louisville, together with No. 10 nationwide seed Oregon and No. 15 nationwide seed Baylor. The Huskers would have a chance to host an NCAA Regional provided that they advance previous the opening two rounds and Louisville is upset within the first or second spherical.
 
Tickets to the primary and second rounds in Lincoln can be found for buy on-line at Huskers.com/tickets as of Sunday night time. First and second spherical matches will probably be streamed on ESPN+. Huskers Radio Community could have audio protection of all Nebraska matches on Huskers Radio Community associates, Huskers.com and the Huskers app.

Nebraska will probably be taking part in Delaware State for the primary time. The Hornets are making their first NCAA Match look after profitable the MEAC Match on Nov. 20, 3-1 over Coppin State. Thursday’s match will function the highest two defensive groups within the nation. Nebraska leads the nation with a .129 opponent hitting proportion, whereas Delaware State is second at .132. 
 
The Huskers, who completed the common season at 24-5 total, took second within the Massive Ten Convention this season with a 16-4 file. Nebraska holds a nation-leading streak of 10 straight NCAA Regional Last appearances and has received 5 nationwide championships (1995, 2000, 2006, 2015 and 2017). NU additionally ranks second in NCAA historical past in postseason wins (124-35) and profitable proportion (.778) over 40 earlier match appearances.
 
The 2022 Husker squad seems to be to return to the NCAA Semifinals for the seventeenth time in program historical past and second 12 months in a row after ending as runner-up final 12 months to Wisconsin in Columbus, Ohio. This 12 months’s NCAA Championship is ready for December 15-17 on the CHI Well being Middle in Omaha. The town of Omaha has served as probably the most frequent host of the NCAA Championship within the 41-year historical past of the match. Omaha has hosted the occasion 4 instances: 2006, 2008, 2015 and 2020. The Huskers received NCAA titles in Omaha in each 2006 (vs. Stanford) and 2015 (vs. Texas), and the Massive Crimson reached the ultimate 4 in 2008 earlier than dropping a five-set thriller to Penn State within the semifinals.
 
NCAA TOURNAMENT FIRST AND SECOND ROUND SCHEDULE
First Spherical – Thursday, Dec. 1
4:30 p.m. – Kansas vs. Miami
7 p.m.* – Nebraska vs. Delaware State
*or half-hour following the conclusion of the 4:30 p.m. match, however no earlier than 7 p.m.
 
Second Spherical – Friday, Dec. 2
7 p.m. – First Spherical Winners