Playing in the Kohl Center–home of the school’s basketball teams–for the first time in 24 years, the Wisconsin volleyball team set a NCAA regular-season attendance record with 16,833 fans in the building to watch the No. 4 Badgers take on 16th-ranked Florida on Friday night.
The largely pro-Wisconsin crowd was raucous throughout the evening and certainly got the chance to watch high-quality play. The match spanned five sets and lasted two hours and 41 minutes before the Gators finally sealed the win, 25–21, 25–18, 26–28, 25–13, 15–13.
“What a special environment this was,” Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield said, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.