Another weekend is in the books and Nebraska volleyball continued its winning ways. The Cornhuskers are now 25-0 and easily the best team in the nation. They more than earned that title this past weekend, going on the road to two ranked teams' arenas and sucking the life out of them.
Nebraska showed no signs of weakness in its late Saturday night matchup against No. 12 Oregon, sweeping the Ducks with ease (25-13, 25-16, 25-20). The Cornhuskers held Oregon below 20 points in the first two sets and allowed it to reach that mark only once, in the third and final set.
The Huskers then had a quick turnaround, heading to Seattle to face No. 18 Washington for a Sunday afternoon first serve. Washington kept things a little more competitive but Nebraska still swept the Huskies (25-20, 25-13, 25-22) and remained unbeaten.
Two weeks ago, I tried to predict when the Nebraska volleyball team would suffer its first defeat of the 2026 campaign. This past weekend was what I ultimately settled on because it was a second straight weekend of playing on the road and came against two ranked teams, one of whom beat Wisconsin in Madison a few weeks prior.
The toughest regular season stretch is behind Nebraska volleyball
With Nebraska not only beating Oregon and Washington but dominating them on the road, a regular-season loss feels unlikely now. All the Cornhuskers have remaining on their 2026 regular season schedule is Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota, all being played in Lincoln. Minnesota's ranked No. 19 but Illinois and Iowa are unranked.
So, with all of that said, a second-straight undefeated regular season feels within reach for this Nebraska squad. Then again, the Huskers managed to go undefeated during the regular season last year as well and, sadly, we know how that turned out in the tournament.
The good news is that the loss to Texas A&M had a lot of crazy outliers, like Bergen Reilly getting sick and Allie Sczech getting injured during warmups. It's always possible that strange situations like that arise again but this Husker team is deeper in depth than any team we've seen before. That should help them come tournament time.
Dani Busboom Kelly took over as Nebraska's head coach last year and, so far, has yet to lose a regular season match since being at the helm. That's pretty darn impressive and, hopefully, this time around, the Huskers go all the way and get the job done this time around.
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