{"id":180763,"date":"2025-09-25T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180763\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:14:12","slug":"big-ten-announces-discover-volleyball-challenge-university-of-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180763\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Announces Discover Volleyball Challenge &#8211; University of Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Ten Conference and Big Ten Network announced Wednesday they are launching a newly created In-Season Volleyball Challenge. Partnering with Discover, the official credit card of the Big Ten Conference, the inaugural Discover In-Season Volleyball Challenge will debut during the 2025 regular season conference schedule starting Oct. 1, encompassing all 18 Big Ten Volleyball programs. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Select conference matches played during the month of October will count toward the Discover In-Season Volleyball Challenge. Each team will play five designated challenge matches throughout the month, with the winner determined by the highest win total across the five games.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska&#8217;s five matches include: at Penn State (Oct. 3), Washington (Oct. 10), at Michigan State (Oct. 17), Northwestern (Oct. 24) and at Wisconsin (Oct. 31).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Format Overview:<\/p>\n<p>All weekday matches in the month of October (weeks 2-6 of the conference schedule) will count toward the Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Weekday is defined as Wednesday through Friday<br \/>\nStart date \u2013 Wednesday, October 1<br \/>\nEnd date \u2013 Friday, October 31<\/p>\n<p>Tiebreak Procedures:<\/p>\n<p>Two Teams Tied<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head results (Challenge\u00a0matches only).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, winning percentage against common opponent\/(s) (Challenge\u00a0matches only).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, highest percentage of total sets won during\u00a0Challenge\u00a0matches (total sets won\/total sets played).\u00a0<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, highest percentage of total points won during\u00a0Challenge\u00a0matches (total points won\/total points played).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, the team with the highest ranking in the latest published NCAA Women\u2019s Volleyball RPI will be declared the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Three or More Teams Tied<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head results among the group (Challenge\u00a0matches only).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, winning percentage against common opponent\/(s) (Challenge\u00a0matches only).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, highest percentage of total sets won during\u00a0Challenge\u00a0matches among the group (total sets won\/total sets played).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, highest percentage of total points won during\u00a0Challenge\u00a0matches among the group (total points won\/total points played).<br \/>\nIf a tie still exists, the team with the highest ranking among the group in the latest published NCAA Women\u2019s Volleyball RPI will be declared the winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Ten Conference and Big Ten Network announced Wednesday they are launching a newly created In-Season Volleyball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[24319,69004,2806,12695,10595,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-180763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-huskers","10":"tag-nebraska","11":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","12":"tag-nu","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}