{"id":285682,"date":"2026-05-09T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:01:08","slug":"nebraska-volleyball-to-play-unlv-and-texas-in-las-vegas-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285682\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska volleyball to play UNLV and Texas in Las Vegas showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska <a href=\"https:\/\/huskers.com\/news\/2026\/05\/8\/huskers-to-face-unlv-texas-in-players-era-showcase-in-vegas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:volleyball will play;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;volleyball will play&quot;}\" class=\"link \">volleyball will play<\/a> in the first-ever Players Era Volleyball Showcase in Las Vegas to open the 2026 regular season.\u00a0The two-day event will be held on Saturday, Aug. 29 and Sunday, Aug. 30 at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Huskers will play UNLV on Aug. 29 and <a href=\"https:\/\/longhornswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas<\/a> on Aug. 30. TCU is the other team participating in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska has never played UNLV in volleyball. The Huskers are 33-25 all-time against Texas and haven&#8217;t played the Longhorns since losing in the 2023 NCAA Championship match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying in the first volleyball Players Era event is an exciting opportunity for our program,&#8221; Head Coach\u00a0Dani Busboom Kelly\u00a0said. &#8220;Nebraska wants to be at the forefront of new events and opportunities for our players and our sport. Having the opportunity to face our long-standing rival, Texas, is the icing on the cake. Not only will Vegas be an amazing location to start our season, playing UNLV and Texas will set a tone from the beginning. We want to thank MGM and the Players Era for believing in volleyball and Nebraska to make this event possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska will play at AT&amp;T Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 27 in the Spikes Under the Lights exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CornhuskersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@CornhuskersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@CornhuskersWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> @CornhuskersWire<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CornhuskersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Nebraska news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cornhuskers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/cornhuskerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/cornhuskers\/volleyball\/2026\/05\/09\/nebraska-volleyball-players-era-showcase-las-vegas-texas-unlv\/89996382007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nebraska volleyball to play UNLV and Texas in Players Era Showcase;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nebraska volleyball to play UNLV and Texas in Players Era Showcase&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nebraska volleyball to play UNLV and Texas in Players Era Showcase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebraska volleyball will play in the first-ever Players Era Volleyball Showcase in Las Vegas to open the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13843,9933,1924,27,29,28,25294,5670],"class_list":["post-285682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-huskers","tag-las-vegas","tag-nebraska","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-unlv","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}