Nebraska will meet Creighton in a spring match Friday at 7 p.m. at D.J. Sokol Arena in Omaha, giving the longtime in-state rivals another chance to test themselves after another season spent among the nation’s best. Nebraska Public Media will televise the match, with a stream available on the network’s YouTube page.
Larry Punteney and Kirsten Bernthal Booth will handle the Nebraska Public Media call, while Matt Coatney and Lauren Cook West will be on the Huskers Radio Network broadcast across volleyball affiliate stations, Huskers.com and the Huskers App. It is the kind of matchup that has become familiar lately: both teams reached the NCAA Regional Finals last season and finished in the top 10 of the AVCA Poll, and three of the last four meetings have gone five sets.
Nebraska won the most recent meeting mentioned in the source, a 3-2 victory over Creighton at CHI Health Center Omaha last September before 17,675 fans. That crowd remains the largest regular-season volleyball-only indoor crowd in NCAA history, a reminder of how quickly this matchup can become much bigger than a spring date on the calendar.
The Huskers enter with Bergen Reilly coming off a 2025 season in which she was named AVCA Setter of the Year, Big Ten Player of the Year, Big Ten Setter of the Year, All-Big Ten First Team and AVCA West Region Player of the Year. She finished with 3,723 career assists and became the second player in Big Ten history to be named Big Ten Setter of the Year three times.
Nebraska’s front line and back row also carry plenty of weight into the match. Harper Murray earned AVCA All-America and All-Big Ten First Team honors for the third straight year after leading the Huskers with a career-best 3.54 kills per set on a career-high.295 hitting percentage. Andi Jackson was selected to the AVCA All-America First Team for the second straight year, won AVCA Middle Blocker of the Year and led the nation with a.467 hitting percentage, while Laney Choboy averaged a team-high 2.71 digs per set.
Creighton brings its own record of recent parity to the rematch, and the setting adds another layer. D.J. Sokol Arena holds 3,000, far smaller than the crowd that packed Omaha for the teams’ last regular-season meeting, but the edge between these programs has rarely been about the building. Nebraska volleyball has made a habit of turning this series into a late-set grind, and Friday’s spring match gives both teams another chance to show where they stand before the next season starts to matter for real.
