Big Ten members Nebraska and American sports as a whole experienced a historic day on Wednesday, when the Cornhuskers’ women’s volleyball team played in front of a crowd of 92,003, setting a new world attendance record for women’s sports events.
Part of the festivities of the ‘Volleyball Day in Nebraska’, an event held to celebrate the popularity of the sport in the state, the duel between Nebraska and Omaha was played outdoors at Memorial Stadium, the college’s American football venue, in Lincoln, which also had the biggest crowd in its 100-year history.