Nancy Metcalf chipped in 12 kills and a match-high seven blocks for Nebraska, which has won 20 straight matches and 45 straight league contests. Junior setter Greichaly Cepero posted four kills, 32 assists, seven digs and three blocks while leading NU to a .287 hitting percentage.

Defensively, the Huskers out-blocked KU, 15-6, while holding them to a .066 hitting percentage.

Sarah Rome totaled 12 kills for the Jayhawks, who fell to 15-13 overall and 5-12 in the conference.

The Huskers out-blocked Kansas, 7-1, in game one and led, 27-12, before KU outscored them 4-1 to make it 28-16. A kill by Pilakowski forced a game-point situation for Nebraska. Rome twice held the Huskers off with kills before Holmquist secured the 30-18 first-game win with a kill.

Kansas took its late game-one momentum into the second game, taking a 14-10 lead behind three kills from Molly Scavuzzo. The Huskers cut KU’s lead to two with back-to-back kills from Pilakowski, and then took their first lead of the game, a 17-16 advantage, on another kill from Pilakowski. KU tied it with a block of Metcalf, and the score was tied six more times before the Jayhawks went up 26-25 on a block of Kropp. The block sparked a 4-0 KU run that forced a game-point situation for Kansas. But Pilakowski thwarted the game-point attempt with a kill, and the Huskers scored six straight to take the second game 31-29.

The Huskers easily won game three, leading by as many as 10. Kansas closed it to 23-16 with a kill by Scavuzzo, but the Jayhawks never got closer than that. Nebraska took the 30-19 win and the match on a kill by Ally Rebholz.

Nebraska returns to action Wednesday, Nov. 15, when it travels to Norman, Okla., to face the Sooners in a 7 p.m. match. Oklahoma was 2-25 overall and 1-13 in the Big 12 entering their Saturday night match at Texas Tech.