What happened at Bank of Colorado Arena on Friday night?

Oh, well, just an incredibly exciting and competitive evening of college volleyball in University of Northern Colorado’s season-opening match against the University of Washington.

The answer to the question is pretty simple beyond this for UNC coach Lyndsey Oates, whose team pulled out a reverse sweep to defeat Huskies in five sets.

Washington, a member of the Big Ten Conference — a major, Power 4 conference in the current college sports landscape — also played its first match of the year. The Huskies won the first two sets 25-22 and 25-23. UNC, the defending Big Sky Conference regular season champion, rallied for wins in the next three sets, 25-16, 25-23 and 16-14 in the fifth.

Washington finished ninth in the 18-team Big Ten la

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