Consecutive matches against top-five opponents don’t appear on the schedule regularly. The last time the University of Wisconsin volleyball team faced two such opponents. They lost both matches.
Those were two of the Badgers’ three losses in their impressive 2014 campaign where the team finished 31-3 before losing in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.
This past week, the Badgers easily could have fallen to 6-6 on the year upon facing powerhouses No. 5 Penn State and No. 2 Nebraska in a four-day stretch. But their electric offense, led by AVCA National Player of the Week junior Sydney Hilley, carried them to back-to-back wins and the first home sweep Nebraska has suffered since 2014.