LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dan Meske didn’t try to sugarcoat it, with his No. 6-ranked volleyball team heading into the ACC’s California road swing over the weekend.

“Cal is a massive trap match for us,” he warned last week. “It's very natural for our team to think about the Stanford match and, you know, national TV and all those different things. We played them in the Elite Eight. But Cal is going to be really, really good.”

What happened?

Louisville volleyball went into that “trap” in Berkeley on Friday night, hit .371, held Cal to a .000 hitting percentage, and posted a 25-5 second set — the most lopsided of the rally-scoring era.

Then on Sunday, the real fireworks.

Louisville took out No. 4 Stanford on its home court, 3-1, ending a 20-match home win streak and outplaying the Cardinal in ne

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