Nebraska coach John Cook will be shocked if a team never loses a Big Ten match this season, but the Huskers have a clean league record at the halfway point of the Big Ten season with a 10-0 mark.

Now the schedule is getting fiercer for the Huskers in November, starting with Friday’s match at No. 8 Wisconsin (15-4, 9-1 Big Ten).

On Saturday evening Nebraska rallied for a four-set win against Michigan before 8,517 spectators at the Devaney Sports Center. The scores were 26-28, 25-17, 25-11, 25-21.

Nebraska’s nation-leading home winning streak now stands at 38 over three seasons.

In the league standings Nebraska and Penn State are tied at the top, with Wisconsin one match back.

Harper Murray led the Huskers with 17 kills and three ace serves.

Merritt Beason was a big reason why the match didn’t go to a fifth set, as she had each of Nebraska’s final four kills in a close fourth set, including on match point.

“I think (setter Bergen Reilly) does a great job of setting the hot hitter, and obviously Merritt was that at the end,” Murray said.

Beason finished with 16 kills on .370 hitting. Andi Jackson added 10 kills and five blocks.

Michigan outside hitter Allison Jacobs dominated at times and finished with 18 kills and a .300 hitting percentage. Nebraska was able to get some blocks on her in the final two sets.

“(Jacobs) hits from everywhere. She does a really nice job,” Cook said. “She was blowing it off our block. It’s so frustrating, because we’re undisciplined.”

Nebraska was better serving with six aces and four errors. Michigan served out 14 times.

After losing the first set, Nebraska won the next three. And in the third set the Huskers dominated, hitting .520 – just one hitting error on 25 attempts – and holding Michigan to .032.

Michigan also had a late lead in the fourth set, 18-15. Then Kennedi Orr came on to serve. Orr always seems to think she can take the Huskers on a run, and she did this time, serving a 4-0 run to give Nebraska a lead. That included a quick kill from Lindsay Krause, after she replaced Taylor Landfair.

“We got (Ella Demetrican) down the line there in that run. She did a really nice job on that,” Cook said of Orr’s serving run. “She also brings great energy when she comes in. And Lindsay came in a took a couple of big swings coming off the bench. That’s not easy to do.

“I felt like we had no energy out there, and the crowd got fired up when (Krause) came in and she brought energy. We ran four or five points there to win that thing. That’s why we call them game-changers.”

Michigan won the first set with a great showing from Jacobs, who had seven kills on 10 attempts in the set. Michigan won the extended set 28-26, getting the final point on a blast from Valentina Vaulet on the outside.

Nebraska couldn’t convert on two set points. Nebraska hit out seven times in the set and was blocked three times.

Nebraska came back with a great start to the second set. Murray served a 5-0 run that included two aces, and two kills from Murray, for an 11-4 lead. Murray had four kills in that set.

Nebraska finished with a .206 hitting percentage, and Michigan hit .150.

Michigan sophomore setter Morgan Burke from Omaha Skutt had 32 set assists and eight digs.

Michigan has already made a major improvement, going from seven wins all of last season to 16-4 this season.

Cook was really proud of Nebraska’s serve-receive unit for not conceding an ace.

But Nebraska’s hitting – 20 times the Huskers hit out – was disappointing.

“And they were some bad hitting errors. Like way out,” Cook said. “I don’t know if it was our focus. We never got in a great rhythm all night.”