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Nebraska Volleyball named Number One in preseason coaches poll

John Cook and company start the 2022 season with high expectations

The American Volleyball Coaches Association has released its Preseason Division I Women’s Volleyball Coaches Poll, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers are Number One. The Huskers are coming off a 26-8 overall record and were the National Runner-Ups falling to the Wisconsin Badger in the National Championship game three games to two.

This announcement comes on the heels of Nebraska being selected to finish second in the Big Ten overall by the conference’s volleyball media partners behind Coach’s Poll Number Three, Wisconsin. 2022 is the perfect season for the Cornhuskers to be a high-profile program at the top of the rankings. During the Big Ten’s first ever volleyball media days, the league announced that they will have a record-setting 55 Big Ten volleyball matches televised nationally on the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and FS1. Exposure for the program will be at an all-time high.

The Number One ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers Volleyball team starts their 2022-23 season in Lincoln at the Devaney Center against Texas A&m Corpus-Christi.

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Wisconsin volleyball set another record in their championship match

The Badgers set a different kind of record in their national championship match

Wisconsin volleyball set all sorts of firsts in their championship match against Nebraska, the most important of which being their first national championship in program history.

With two passionate Big Ten fan bases meeting at the summit, viewers were locked in as a champion was crowned. Wisconsin and Nebraska drew 1.19 million viewers in their five-set thriller on Saturday. That number has since been confirmed to be a collegiate volleyball record for viewers.

Nebraska area news anchor Bill Schammert of 1011 NOW provided some context to the numbers. Wisconsin’s national championship match against Stanford drew less than half of that total, while Stanford’s championship matchup with Nebraska did not reach 1 million viewers in 2018.