Nebraska volleyball will play its Big Ten opponent in 2025 at Pinnacle Bank Arena

John Cook has more attendance records in his brain.

The Purdue Boilermakers may have fallen in five sets to the Huskers on Oct. 11, but they beat Nebraska for a different reason. In a game against Indiana on October 19, the Boilermakers gathered 14,876 spectators at Mackey Arena, home of the Purdue basketball team, breaking the attendance record for a Big Ten game set in 2004 when Illinois drew 10,927 spectators against Minnesota played.

Not to be outdone, the Nebraska head coach wants to break that record in 2025.

When John Cook spoke with Lauren Cook-West on her podcast “Kicking Back with the Cooks” on the Huskers Radio Network about the record set by Purdue, he said, “I immediately texted Troy (Dannen), our athletic director said, “Okay, the game continues.”

“Next year we will definitely go to the PBA (Pinnacle Bank Arena) so we can get that record too,” Cook said.

Cook continued: “We want to keep every record. I think our fans are excited, so we have to play a Big Ten match in the PBA arena.”

Pinnacle Bank Arena is the home of the Nebraska men's and women's basketball teams and seats 15,500. The current PBA record for a volleyball game was set in 2016 when the U.S. national team packed 10,213 fans into the building.

Nebraska continues to push the limits of its current home venue, the Bob Devaney Sports Center. A new attendance mark of 9,198 was set in a five-set thriller against Wisconsin last season.

Nebraska has been part of a string of attendance records, including the current world record for attendance at a women's sporting event (92,003), set on August 30, 2023, when the Huskers played the University of Nebraska-Omaha at Memorial Stadium, home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football.

The Huskers have also competed in the 11 most attended women's volleyball events in NCAA history.

Before the Huskers aim for more attendance records, they must continue their winning streak in 2024. Nebraska is at home this weekend, hosting Illinois on Friday and Michigan on Saturday.

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