Though the Cats dropped two games this weekend, senior libero Kate Nobilio surpassed the 2,000-dig mark, becoming the fifth player in Big Ten history to do so.

Both of the Wildcats' first two Big Ten wins were five-set nail biters at Welsh-Ryan Arena this weekend. What Northwestern's wins really had in common was a whole lot of Sabel Moffett.

Despite losing its first four conference games and sitting in last place in the Big Ten, Northwestern is not quite ready to be labeled as the underdog.

Resiliency was in short order as Northwestern dropped every set en route to a pair of losses to Penn State and Ohio State in its conference opener this weekend. "It was a matter of execution," coach Keylor Chan said. "We scouted and we knew what they were going to do, and that was in our control, but we did not come out and execute.