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Nebraska volleyball sets women’s sporting event attendance world record

Over 92,000 fans attended Wednesday night's women's volleyball match between Nebraska and Omaha, a world record for a women's sporting event. (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star/AP)
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At first, the idea seemed audacious. Holding a college volleyball match inside the University of Nebraska’s massive football stadium? What would it look like? Would enough people come?

“I think my brain started spinning,” Nebraska’s senior associate athletic director Brent Meyer recently said in an interview on the team’s website.