Reddit Wars: Did Everyone In Nebraska Attend The NCAA Volleyball Game??

NCAA volleyball shocked the world on Wednesday night with record number of spectators watching and people are talking.

NCAA volleyball matches typically see about 15-20,000 spectators, so it was a big moment when 92,003 people turned out to watch the University of Nebraska host a match against the University of Nebraska-Omaha at Lincoln Memorial Stadium. It was the largest crowd to watch a women's sporting event in history!

The previous world record for attendance at a women's sporting event was set during a UEFA Women's Champions League soccer semifinal in 2022 between Barcelona and Wolfsburg with 91,648 fans in attendance, according to CBS News.

Wednesday night's crowd in Nebraska also broke the record for the most people to watch an NCAA regular season volleyball match. The previous record was when Wisconsin played Florida last September in front of a crowd of 16,833 fans.

A thread started by Reddit user I_Like_To_Go_InDepth with just a video clip of the volleyball match, had more than 1,000 people leaving comments about the big record-breaking event.

Many took to the comments to leave facts about the record-breaking game, some left their support and praise for the event, and others just had jokes to share.

"I'm always surprised at how many people live in Nebraska."

~Candidately

"I think this is everyone in Nebraska except for the people running casinos, lol."

~Th0m45D4v15

"Literally nothing else to do there."

~nkfish11

"The story is Nebraska vs Creighton (another college in Nebraska) set the volleyball attendance record. Days later Wisconsin (one of Nebraska’s rivals) vs Florida beat that attendance record.

After Wisconsin took the record, John Cook, head coach of Nebraska volleyball, joked about selling out Memorial Stadium to beat the record. With standing room around the court the attendance could reach world record levels.

Nebraska does not like to lose in little things. They will always win polls, sellout to the same stadium for football, and in this case rally together to set a record.

Note: Memorial Stadium was the only venue above the record Wisconsin set. Nebraska has another indoor venue but it wasn’t large enough. So instead of trying for close to 20k fans they stretched it to 92k. Pretty insane, but awesome."

~TheButteredCat

"Omaha has 500,000. Lincoln has 300,000. The next two biggest have around 50,000 each. So, on Husker game days (and nights like tonight), our stadium turns into our third biggest city. Love this state!"

~tomcody84

"There's nothing to do there but sports and corn farming."

~CarlSpackler-420-69

"They are also insanely talented athletes and amazing to watch if you enjoy competitive sports at all. Nebraska volleyball has had numerous women on the USA Olympic team and multiple National Championships. Their games regularly sellout and the atmosphere there is on par with football games."

~stereocup

"Nearly 2 million people live in Nebraska

When THAT stadium is full, it's the 3rd Largest city in Nebraska.

It has also sold out its stadium for every football game (excluding spring training, I have been corrected) since 1962."

~igillyg

"Imagine how crazy it would be to be one of the volleyball players. Playing in front of 92003 people. That's nuts."

~Country_Gravy420