The sellout crowd of 13,396 was an NCAA record for a regular-season volleyball crowd. It was the first time the Cornhuskers, who have sold out their last 100 matches at the NU Coliseum, have filled their basketball arena. The match sold out 12 days ago.

Hawai'i's Jamie Houston led all hitters with 16 kills. Tracy Stalls, second nationally in hitting percentage had 13 kills for the 'Huskers and hit .522. Sarah Pavan added 11.

Nebraska (19-0), the defending national champion, has swept its last 17 matches, winning 53 consecutive games. Seventh-ranked UCLA, the last team to beat the Rainbows (Sept. 3), is the only team to take a game off the Cornhuskers this season.

Hawai'i kept the crowd quiet and Nebraska in sight early. The first game was tied 11 times, the last at 14. But the 'Bows were already predictable. After Amber Kaufman buried the first point of the match, the Hawai'i middles would not get another kill until Juliana Sanders cut their deficit to 25-20.

Those two kills contrasted dramatically with Stalls, who had 6 kills in 10 swings. Not coincidentally, Nebraska's passing was nearly flawless and Hawai'i's far from it, flat-out giving the Cornhuskers — who did not have an ace in Game 1— five points with shanks.

The Rainbow Wahine out-blocked Nebraska 4-3 and kept the last two national players of the year — Pavan (3 kills, .111) and Christina Houghtelling (2 kills, negative .125) — from being a factor, yet were outscored 13-6 to end the game.

And, pretty much, the match. Nebraska scored the first eight points of the second game. It took Hawai'i five minutes, a timeout and a substitution (Kari Gregory for Kaufman) to get its first point. And only four straight 'Husker serving errors kept the second from becoming the 'Bows' worst game loss of the season.

The 'Bows' passing woes never disappeared. Neither did their deficit. Captain Tara Hittle did not get her first kill until early in the third game and a few shanks later Nebraska was ahead 13-8. The Rainbows did not have it in them to come back.