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No. 1 Nebraska Volleyball Sweeps Iowa, Wins Big Ten Title Outright

No sharing of the league championship as Huskers stay undefeated

Kaleb Henry

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There will be no shared conference crown for Nebraska volleyball in 2023.

No. 1 Nebraska swept Iowa Sunday afternoon: 25-21, 21, 15. The win puts the Huskers up to 27-0 on the season and 18-0 in the Big Ten. With Wisconsin at three league losses and NU having just two matches remaining, Nebraska is the outright Big Ten Conference champion.

NU hit .233 for the match, holding Iowa to .121. The usual block for the NU defense was surprisingly absent, as the Hawkeyes won that category 8-6.

Merritt Beason hit a match-high 12 kills. The balanced attacking continued with Bekka Allick, Ally Batenhorst and Harper Murray all notching nine kills, while Andi Jackson had seven kills. Bergen Reilly handed out 37 assists during the sweep.

Nebraska heads on the road for the final two matches of the regular season: Friday at No. 3 Wisconsin and Saturday at Minnesota.

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Kaleb Henry
KALEB HENRY

Kaleb Henry is an award-winning sports reporter, covering collegiate athletics since 2014 via radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. His experience with Big Ten Conference teams goes back more than a decade, including time covering programs such as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, and USC Trojans. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated since 2021. Kaleb has won multiple awards for his sports coverage from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Prior to working in sports journalism, Kaleb was a Division I athlete on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Track and Field team where he discussed NCAA legislation as SIUE's representative to the Ohio Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. 

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