how we doing everybody time for sports I'm Forest Tucker Kentucky volleyball is opening their season in a star studded fashion tonight in Lille but they're not playing the Cardinals y'all they're playing the 2023 National finalist Nebraska the Corn Huskers are the opponent on tap to open Craig Skinner team season now there are three things right here you see some numbers we want to let you know about as this game counts down to the first moments now number one here first pretty funny right it's the first time that the this team will play in the avca first serve showcase the wild cats are getting that honor on the back of the 21 to8 season they had that also featured an 18 game winning streak during that season pretty good because Craig skner team had to turn it around they did that with the 18 game winning run now the second thing you need to know is five the Corn Huskers are five-time NCAA champions in volleyball they had the chance to capture their sixth last season but they lost to Texas in the final 3 to nothing then despite that the corn hus were always ranked inside the top five teams in 2023 now we're to the last one the last thing I need to know is that these two teams played each other last season this was the score three sets to one Kentucky lost that game in Lincoln it was the last time again that they had played the most recent meeting and versus ranked teams Kentucky was 9- s Nebraska of course being one of them at that point now we're going to be live in Louisville at 5 and 6 to bring you the very latest from this Kentucky team you see them there in preseason and training there are a lot of returners a couple players who are not with the team anymore we're going to give you that rundown but until then this has been good afternoon Kentucky Sports there's more of that coming up on the other side of this break