Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos said Tuesday on the Husker Sports Network that NU’s 375-game sellout streak will have an “asterisk” in 2020 because Big Ten rules won’t allow fans — outside of player and staff families — to attend league games in October. Moos says it won’t change NU’s streak, because all of the season tickets were sold before the season.
Bill Moos also says he and Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta have requested the Huskers-Hawkeyes rivalry game be played on Black Friday, Nov. 27. The two teams are scheduled to meet the weekend of November 28th.
The NCAA Board of Directors on Tuesday approved the plan to move the NCAA volleyball tournament to the spring. The volleyball regular season will begin Jan. 22, with the NCAA Tournament selection show on April 4. The board approved the plans that were recommend by the NCAA Division I Council last week. The NCAA Final Four will take place April 23-25. The Final Four was scheduled to be in Omaha in December, and the city may still be the host in the spring. The tournament field would be reduced from 64 teams to 48, with 32 automatic qualifiers and 16 at-large selections
The UNK football team will play four non-conference games this fall. UNK, Missouri Western State and Pittsburg State have announced a nonconference scheduling alliance that allows the three Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) members to play a partial 2020 schedule beginning in late October. The Lopers, Griffons and Gorillas will each play two games against each other while filling the remainder of their schedules with other NCAA Division II and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) institutions. The Lopers, will host Chadron State (Nov. 7th) and Missouri Western State (Nov. 21st) and travel to Pittsburg State (Oct. 31st) and South Dakota Mines (Nov. 14th). Both Chadron and South Dakota Mines are members of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC). The alliance among MIAA member schools in football also allows MIAA cross country teams to run in several meets this fall. That schedule will be announced soon. Later this fall the MIAA league office will announce spring schedules for both volleyball and soccer. Those sports will play a conference schedule followed by an MIAA Championship tournament.
Tuesday High School Schedule
– KCHS Boys Tennis Triangular @ Harmon Park
– KCHS 2, Hastings 2
– KCHS 0, GICC 4
– KHS Softball vs. Lincoln Southwest (DH) @ Patriot Park
– Lincoln Southwest 16, Kearney 6
– Lincoln Southwest 13, Kearney 5
– KHS Volleyball vs. Lincoln High @ KHS
– Lincoln High def. Kearney, 17-25, 25-23, 27-29, 25-22, 15-11 (3-2)
– KCHS Volleyball @ Centura
– Kearney Catholic def. Centura, 25-19, 25-18, 25-14 (3-0)