National championship vb game

[HuskerPower52]

Nebraska be Stanford. Stanford leads 1-0.

 

[Smotis]

Took the 2nd set. 1-1 now!

 

[Smotis]

2-1 stanford. Crappy 3rd set.

 

[iruletheskool]

3rd set was ugly

 

[Smotis]

4th set was ugly for stanford. 2-2!

 

[Smotis]

Terrible overturn call by the refs

 

[NE1tm2nv]

Terrible overturn call by the refs

That call sealed the deal.
The girls went farther than I thought they would.

Congrats ladies. Very good show tonight.

 

[Smotis]

That call sealed the deal.
The girls went farther than I thought they would.

Congrats ladies. Very good show tonight.

Yeah, to say there was definitive proof that that ball was in is pretty bs.

 

[HuskerPower52]

There's absolutely no way to tell if that ball was in or not

 

[corn train]

Like vibe? Wtf is going on

 

[Alum-Ni]

Post-Match Notes: Nebraska vs. Stanford

- The loss snapped Nebraska's 13-match winning streak, as the Huskers (29-7) finished as NCAA runner-up for the fourth time in school history (1986, 1989, 2005, 2018)

- Nebraska fell to 5-4 all-time in the NCAA Final, including a 4-2 record under John Cook. The Huskers had been victorious in their last three NCAA Final appearances (2006, 2015, 2017) before Saturday's loss

- The Huskers' school-record postseason winning streak was snapped at 11 straight victories, as Nebraska suffered its first postseason loss since a 2016 NCAA Semifinal defeat to Texas

- Nebraska dropped to 113-32 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. The Huskers' 113 postseason victories and .779 winning percentage both rank second in NCAA history behind Stanford (125 wins, .801 winning percentage).

- John Cook fell to 72-15 in the NCAA Tournament at Nebraska. Including his seven seasons at Wisconsin, Cook is 80-19 in his NCAA Tournament career

- Nebraska lost to the No. 1-ranked team for the first time since a 3-1 loss to top-ranked Texas in the 2013 NCAA Regional Final. The Huskers had won their last three matches against the No. 1 team, including postseason wins in two of the past three seasons (Washington in the 2015 Regional Final and Penn State in the 2017 NCAA Semifinal)

- Nebraska defeated Stanford 25-15 in the fourth set, holding the Cardinal to its lowest-scoring set of the season

- Nebraska's two seniors who were with the program each of the last four years -- Mikaela Foecke and Kenzie Maloney -- finished with a 21-2 record in their NCAA Tournament careers. Foecke and Maloney played in more postseason sets and matches and won more NCAA Tournament matches than any other players in Husker history

- Foecke and Maloney finished with a 52-3 combined record in the months of November and December

- Foecke had a career-high 27 kills in the match on a career-high 71 swings. The 27 kills tied for the second-highest total by a player in a five-set NCAA Final. Foecke also had 11 digs, posting her fourth straight double-double.

- In her three career NCAA Finals, Foecke totaled 66 kills on .301 hitting. She had at least 19 kills in all three of her NCAA Finals matches

- Foecke has 129 kills in her career NCAA Semifinals/Finals matches. That total ties for third in NCAA history.

- Foecke served up nine aces in her career in NCAA Semifinals/Finals matches. That total ranks in a tie for eighth in NCAA history

- In her overall NCAA Tournament career, Foecke totaled 309 kills and 26 aces. Her 282 postseason kills and 25 aces both rank second in Nebraska postseason history

- Foecke finished her outstanding career with 1,684 career kills. Foecke ranks third all-time at Nebraska in kills, including second in the rally-scoring era (since 2001)

- Foecke also totaled 135 service aces in her career, the seventh-most in Nebraska history and the fourth-highest total in the rally-scoring era

- Foecke finished her senior season with 514 kills, tied for the eighth-highest total in Nebraska history and third during the rally-scoring era. Foecke joined Sarah Pavan (2006) and Kelsey Robinson (2013) as the only Huskers to have 500 kills in a season during the rally-scoring era (since 2001)

- Foecke also had 46 service aces in 2018, the fifth-highest total by a Husker in the rally-scoring era

- Kenzie Maloney finished with 86 digs in her career in NCAA Semifinals/Finals matches. That total ranks in a tie for fourth in NCAA history and is the most in the rally-scoring era

- Maloney finished her career with 229 digs in the NCAA Tournament to rank third on Nebraska's postseason career digs list

- Maloney had 84 digs in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, the fourth-highest total in Husker postseason history

- Maloney finished her career with 1,406 digs, ranking fifth all-time at Nebraska

- Maloney had 536 digs in her senior season, the fourth-highest total in Nebraska history. Maloney averaged 4.03 digs per set -- the eighth-highest total in school history -- to become the fifth Husker to average 4.0 digs per set in a season

- Lauren Stivrins hit .615 in the match. That ranks as the second-highest total in NCAA Finals history (minimum 20 attempts) behind Pacific's Elaina Oden, who hit .690 in the 1986 NCAA Final

- Stivrins hit .421 in 2018 to become the fifth Husker to hit over .400 in a season and the first since Brooke Delano in 2010. Stivrins' .421 attack percentage was the third-highest mark in school history and ranked second during the rally-scoring era

- Jazz Sweet had 10 kills, her first match with double-figure kills since Oct. 24 at Ohio State

- Nicklin Hames had a career-high 62 assists against Stanford. She finished her freshman season with 1,395 assists, which ranks as Nebraska's third-highest season total during the rally-scoring era

- Callie Schwarzenbach finished the season with 177 blocks, a Nebraska freshman record and the eighth-highest total by a Husker in the rally scoring era

- Mikaela Foecke and Lauren Stivrins were both named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team. Foecke made the team for the third time in her career