Taylor Simpson is no longer a part of the Nebraska volleyball team.

Since Nebraska's move from the Big 12 Conference in July, only one Husker coach has been able to bring home a title from the Big Ten Conference. After compiling a 17-3 record in conference play, John Cook's volleyball team won the Big Ten Championship.

Those glasses on Hannah Werth's face aren't just for looks.

Even though they're now a part of her volleyball uniform, at the beginning of this season the outside hitter from Springfield, Ill., decided she didn't need them.

By most programs' level of expectations, the Nebraska volleyball team had an extremely successful season.

Nebraska volleyball was on a tear.

It's class warfare in college athletics right now, and the proletariat is winning.

For the first time since 1993, Nebraska volleyball won't make it to the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

As Jackson State and Nebraska ran by the net to high-five before the start of the first round game of the Division I NCAA Volleyball Tournament at the NU Coliseum, the first few Huskers bent down to slap the hands of the opposition.

One down, five to go. The problem is, the next five will be much tougher than the first for the Nebraska volleyball team: NU faces longtime Big 12 nemesis Kansas State Friday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.