The No. 19 Western Kentucky volleyball team knew its next stop would be Omaha, Neb., for the NCAA Tournament, but that didn’t make the wait to see the bracket any easier.
Over an hour after the tournament’s selection show was scheduled to begin, WKU learned it would face Jackson State in the first round on April 14 at 9:30 p.m.
“Man, they kept us in suspense for a while,” WKU coach Travis Hudson said. “Glad we were an automatic selection to the tournament because we were in that last bracket that comes up and that’s always nerve-racking.