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Led by undefeated overall No. 1-seed Nebraska, the college volleyball elite will begin their quest for the 2025 national championship on Thursday, when the first round of the\u00a064-team NCAA Division I tournament<\/a>\u00a0hits courts nationwide.<\/p>\n

The Huskers are still chasing a perfect season, entering the 2025 title hunt on a 30-0 run having dropped just six sets all season \u2014 including losing just one set since September 16th.<\/p>\n

“I was expecting us to be great, but certainly not undefeated,” said Nebraska alumna and first-year Cornhusker head coach Dani Busboom Kelly<\/a> on a recent episode of the Welcome to the Party<\/a> podcast. “They continue to exceed our expectations.”<\/p>\n

Busboom Kelly’s roster is loaded with the kind of experienced connection that only comes when the core of players have competed together for three straight seasons \u2014\u00a0an increasing rarity in the transfer portal and NIL era.<\/p>\n

That said, this core has unfinished business on the national stage, with the superstar junior trio of middle blocker Andi Jackson, outside hitter Harper Murray, and setter Bergen Reilly \u2014\u00a0all AVCA Player of the Year semifinalists<\/a> \u2014 looking to bring the first NCAA trophy in eight years back to Lincoln.<\/p>\n

“It’s such a special row, because we just know that all of us have been through thick and thin together and our bond is so strong,” Jackson told USA Today Sports<\/a> earlier this week. “[And Busboom Kelly] gives us so much confidence and we know that with her as our coach, we just can play fearless.”<\/p>\n

\"SMUElite teams like No. 2-seeds SMU and Stanford will look to upend Nebraska en route to the 2025 NCAA volleyball championship. (Matthew Huang\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Stacked tournament field looks to spoil Nebraska’s season<\/p>\n

Even with their “fearless” play, a host of stellar opponents await Nebraska in the NCAA tournament gauntlet, hoping to play spoiler \u2014\u00a0including Busboom Kelly’s previous program, the Louisville Cardinals<\/a>, who await the Cornhuskers as the No. 2-seed in their own regional quadrant.<\/p>\n

Fellow No. 1 seeds Texas, Kentucky, and Pitt will also chase their eventual chance at the Huskers via their own regionals, where the Longhorns could see arguably the stiffest competition from both No. 2-seed Stanford \u2014 the winningest program in NCAA volleyball history \u2014\u00a0and defending champion and No. 8-seed Penn State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With tickets to the 2025 Final Four in Kansas City on the line, the NCAA volleyball bracket’s 64 squads will start serving at 16 campus sites on Thursday.<\/p>\n

How to watch the first round of the 2025 NCAA volleyball tournament<\/p>\n

This year’s NCAA volleyball finale begins when No. 5-seed Colorado takes on unseeded American University at 3 PM ET on Thursday, kicking off a two-day first round of 32 matches \u2014\u00a0with No. 1 Nebraska looking to handle Long Island University in their initial tournament tilt at 8 PM ET on Friday.<\/p>\n

All games<\/a> in the early rounds of the 2025 Division I tournament will air live<\/a> on ESPN+<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by undefeated overall No. 1-seed Nebraska, the college volleyball elite will begin their quest for the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,4233,138137,104807,144357,4653,535,82,575,143580,630,112610,56438],"class_list":["post-326529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cba","tag-cba-deadline","tag-cba-negotiations","tag-draft-combine","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-revenue-sharing","tag-sports","tag-sports-business","tag-team-housing","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-revenue","tag-wnbpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}