[Husker] No. 1 and No. 26 teams competing any Husker fans notice?

[Brent Buckley]

Washington is the scarier team out there.  They swept Hawaii TWICE at
Hawaii, few teams do that.  They've swept Stanford and beaten them again.
The Pac 10 is probably a slightly stronger conference than the Big 12 so
their game has to stay sharp.

Hawaii isn't going to do it this year.  They over performed last year and
this year fell back to probably where they should have been last year.  The
WAC (weak athletic conference) really hurts them competitively.  Nebraska's
third string line up would probably go undefeated in the WAC.


> I will say I would really like to see them play Washington.  My family 
> and I went to the first match this season between UW and UH and saw 
> the second on TV here in Honolulu.  From what I've seen the Huskers 
> and Huskies are on another level above everyone else. Hopefully they 
> will be in opposite tournament brackets so they can meet in the 
> championship game and not some regional or final-four elimination 
> game.

The Huskies have been talking some smack:

    In an article in Wednesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington
    Husky outside hitter Sanja Tomasevic questioned Nebraska's
    ability.

    ``We know we're better,'' Tomasevic said in the article. ``We know
    if we do everything we should, we know we're going to crush them.''

    Yes, Washington is 20-0 and dominating teams just like the Huskers
    are, but Houghtelling said the comments were definitely recognized
    by the players.

    ``Washington's been talking some trash in the newspapers,''
    Houghtelling said. ``When people do that we just get motivated and
    want to go show them we're No. 1 for a reason.''
    [DN, 11/03/05]

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If the Huskers get good setting and do a decent job digging, NU should be
tough for any college team to handle.  I'm not sure how good a college team
would have to play to "crush" NU.