Oregon Ducks volleyball traveled to Palo Alto over the weekend, taking part in the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge, where they matched up against a couple of top-15 teams in Minnesota and Ohio State.
#10 Minnesota
The Ducks faced #10 Minnesota on Friday. Last year, Oregon to their unbeaten streak to Minneapolis and lost to Minnesota in four sets. The Golden Gophers are a perennial powerhouse that have only failed to reach the NCAA tournament once since 1999 (that was in 2014).
This year the teams were neck-and-neck, battling to five sets, with the Ducks dropping the contest 21-25, 25-23, 25-21, 20-25, 14-16.