With Authority!! Huskers Make Statement Sweeping Penn State

The Nebraska Cornhuskers proved why they are the team to beat not only in the Big Ten but in the nation by dismantling No. 16 Penn State in three sets, 25-6, 25-15, 25-13.

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The six points are the lowest the Nittany Lions scored at home since they faced this same Huskers team in 2018, when they only scored 11 points.

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The 34 points total was also the lowest in school history. 

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The Huskers hit a season high of .437, while limiting PSU to -.114, which was the second-lowest by an NU opponent since 2001. The lowest was -.132 by Louisiana-Monroe (12-24-91) in 2013.

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Cornhusker head coach Dani Busboom Kelly said her team was ready for the challenge. 

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“I felt like all week we were (locked in), which it’s easy for me to say now that we came out playing so well, but I thought our prep was so good, and our team was very focused,” she said during a post-match interview on Fox Sports. “I’m not surprised we had that kind of a match tonight.”

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She added, “I thought her sets to Virginia (Adriano) were excellent,” Busboom Kelly said about junior setter Bergen Reilly. “She was really showing confidence early when we got Teraya Sigler two swings early on the BIC, and she kills them. That’s a setter telling her team, ‘I trust everybody. We’re going to win this one.”

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Reilly set the tone early on for the Cornhuskers. She tallied 26 assists, eight digs, and three blocks. When the Nittany Lions got within two, that’s when the Huskers went on a run and never looked back. 

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