And through the first 16 rallies of the match, each team had already won for an epic amount of time.

It was a sign of things to come in a slugfest between two top-10 teams that lasted three hours.

Nebraska got the final blow – Merritt Beason did – and won in five sets. The set scores were 25-22, 22-25, 23-25, 25-22, 17-15.

Look again at how close each set was, with the margin never more than three points.

Nebraska finished with 74 kills and Purdue had 68.

Nebraska’s 12-game winning streak will last at least one more day, as will its 35-game home winning streak.

Beason led the Huskers with 22 kills. Harper Murray added 17 kills and Andi Jackson had 14.

Purdue outside hitter Eva Hudson had 26 kills and Chloe Chicoine had 22.

Nebraska passed the test playing a top-10 opponent for the first time in Big Ten play. Overall, the Huskers are 5-0 against top-10 teams.

Purdue fell to 1-4 against top-10 teams.

Nebraska faced a 2-1 deficit and had to win the fourth set to continue playing. Nebraska got kills from Beason and Taylor Landfair in the fourth set and won the set 25-22.

Chicoine kept going in the fifth set, and her three quick kills in the set gave Purdue an 8-7 lead.

Nebraska tied the match at 10 after Beason put together one of the best kills of the match with a blast in a tight corner, and Jackson scored after a quick set up the middle.

The biggest moment came during a rally when Purdue couldn’t convert some nice swings. So Jackson instead ended it with, you guessed it, a kill down the line on the slide attack for her 13th kill of the match.

Nebraska scored the final three points of the game, the last coming on Beason’s 22nd kills of the game.

Jackson was the star of the first set, going 5 for 5 on kills and having one block. Neither team gained much of an advantage until Nebraska did in crunch time when Merritt Beason served up a 3-0 run for a 23-20 lead. Then Jackson crushed another kill on the slide attack for a 24-21 lead.

On set point, Beason got the kill after charging the back row straight through the middle of the Purdue defense.

Purdue had four blocks in the set and got five kills from Chloe Chicoine. But in a close set, the Boilermakers committed four service errors, while Nebraska had none.

In the second set, Purdue jumped out to a 19-13 lead when Nebraska made hitting errors. Nebraska staged a small comeback, fighting off Purdue’s first three set points before the Boilermakers won the set 25-22 to tie the match.

The third set was a slugfest, with 17 kills for Nebraska and 16 for Purdue. Nebraska let a late 21-19 lead slip away due to a strikeout.

Purdue won the final two points on Nebraska’s hitting error and a kill from Hudson to win 25-23. The Boilermakers had a 2-1 match lead.

Read the full story later tonight on Omaha.com