A volleyball sign hangs in the stands before the game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Omaha Mavericks at Memorial Stadium. A volleyball sign hangs in the stands before the game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Omaha Mavericks at Memorial Stadium. Credit: Dylan Widger-USA TODAY Sports
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The biggest game in Lincoln, Nebraska tonight doesn’t have anything to do with the football team.

The Nebraska women’s volleyball team will be taking part in a one-of-a-kind event at Memorial Stadium that has the school so excited that they canceled classes for the day in preparation.

The No. 4 Nebraska Cornhuskers will take on the Omaha Mavericks at 7 p.m. inside the football stadium where they look to break the NCAA attendance record.

The largest attendance for an NCAA volleyball game is 18,755 people but the world record for attendance for a women’s sporting event is 91,648. Nebraska will breeze past that first one and hopes to break the second one as well. That record was set last year for a Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and Wolfsburg.

“Yes, we believe that goal will be attained,” Nebraska athletics director Trev Alberts told USA TODAY Sports. “I think the number is going to be pushing closer to 95,000.”

As part of the festivities, Wayne State College will take on University of Nebraska-Kearney beforehand at 4:30 p.m.

Videos and photos from inside the stadium have started to hit social media and fans are thrilled with the overwhelming number of people on hand to watch a women’s volleyball match.

Naturally, the reactions from around the sports world have been extremely positive and exciting.

[USA Today, Nebraska Volleyball]

About Sean Keeley

Along with writing for Awful Announcing and The Comeback, Sean is the Editorial Strategy Director for Comeback Media. Previously, he created the Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and wrote 'How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way to Brainwash Your Child Into Rooting for Syracuse.' He has also written non-Syracuse-related things for SB Nation, Curbed, and other outlets. He currently lives in Seattle where he is complaining about bagels. Send tips/comments/complaints to sean@thecomeback.com.

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