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Nebraska Sweep Missouri at the Second Attempt
Condensation stopped this fixture at Wrigley Field on 6 September with 43,067 watching. It was wiped, not resumed, and replayed in Lincoln on Wednesday.
Nebraska and Missouri got eighteen points into this match on 6 September at Wrigley Field, in front of 43,067 people, before condensation settled on the court and stopped it for good.
Neither school got to keep anything from that night. The scoreboard was wiped rather than resumed, the match was rescheduled for 23 September, and on Wednesday the two of them started again from 0-0 in Lincoln.
Nebraska won 3-0 (25-10, 25-17, 25-14) at John Cook Arena in front of 10,497 and finished non-conference play at 11-0. Missouri, who had travelled to close their own non-conference schedule, went home at 7-5.
Nebraska are ranked first in the AVCA coaches poll of 21 September, and they had led the abandoned version of this match 11-7 when the referees gave up on the floor.
Missouri Scored Forty-One Points All Night
Missouri hit .020 for the match and Nebraska hit .380, and Missouri had arrived in Lincoln at 7-4 rather than as a bad side.
A hitting percentage of .020 means a team killed almost exactly as many balls as it put into the net or outside the court. Missouri did that for three sets against the top-ranked team in the sport, and the first of those sets finished 25-10.
Andi Jackson had 10 kills, six blocks and an ace, which is most of a team block from one middle. Harper Murray also had 10 kills, Virginia Adriano 9, Bergen Reilly 29 assists and eight digs, Laney Choboy 11 digs and Olivia Mauch 10.
A Baseball Park Cost Everybody Eighteen Points
The eighteen points played at Wrigley on 6 September are gone. They do not sit in a record anywhere, and the 43,067 who saw them watched a match that officially never started.
That is more than four times the 10,497 who saw the whole thing on Wednesday, and it is the largest audience either of these programmes will play in front of this season.
Nebraska drew exactly 10,497 to this building on 10 September as well, for a sweep of New Mexico, which huskers.com recorded at the time as the most people who had ever watched a volleyball match in it. Two identical figures thirteen days apart is what a building at capacity looks like.
The Only Match Anybody Will Remember
Nebraska have now won eleven and lost none, and none of the eleven will outlast the one that a wet floor in a ballpark would not let them finish.
They get the Big Ten next, and Wednesday is the last night this season anybody can look at their record without also looking at who was on the other side of the net.
