They broke the attendance record Friday and midway through the third set No. 4 Wisconsin turned into a competitive match, but in the end No. 16 Florida prevailed in five before 16,833 fans in Madison’s Kohl Center.
It’s now the largest regular-season crowd to watch an NCAA volleyball match, breaking the record set by Nebraska and Creighton in Omaha earlier this month.
It was one of three upsets of AVCA ranked teams Friday, as Texas A&M beat No. 21 Western Kentucky and UCF swept No. 23 Kansas.
Saturday’s schedule is equally loaded.
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Florida beat Wisconsin 21-25, 18-25, 28-26, 25-13, 13-15 as both teams hit .115. Wisconsin was down 19-13 in the third set before turning things around. Wisconsin, however, was up 8-5 in the fifth before Florida ran off four points in a row.
Florida got 21 kills from Merritt Beason, who had two assists, three aces, two blocks and eight digs. Wisconsin’s Danielle Hart, who had eight blocks, and Sarah Franklin had 10 kills each …
Top-ranked Texas improved to 8-0 with a sweep of High Point. Texas hit .365 as Madisen Skinner led with 13 kills while hitting .458 to go with three blocks and eight digs …
Eighth-ranked San Diego (8-1) swept visiting UCLA (6-3). Katie Lukes had 17 kills, hit .412, and had two assists, a block and nine digs …
No. 11 Penn State swept Howard … No. 12 Pittsburgh swept at Tennessee … No. 14 Baylor won twice, sweeping Sam Houston and then McNeese … No. 18 Washington swept both North Texas and Montana State …
Texas A&M (7-3) hit .452 and knocked off WKU (11-2), which lost despite hitting .354. Caroline Meuth had 17 kills with one error in 26 attacks for A&M and added an sssist, an ace, two blocks and five digs. Earlier Friday WKU beat Tennessee Tech in four and Paige Briggs had 23 kills with no errors in 33 attacks and Lauren Matthews had 12 kills with one error in 25 swingsd as their team hit .490 …
No. 22 Pepperdine continued to knock off bigger programs, this time beating Washington State in five after losing the third set 31-29. Rachel Ahrens had 18 kills, 10 digs and four blocks …
UCF is 7-2 after winning at Kansas (9-2) behind McKenna Melville, who had 23 kills, hit .352, and had two asists, three aces, six blocks and nine digs …
No. 24 Arkansas beat visiting NC State in four …
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