Wisconsin, Florida Set NCAA Volleyball Attendance Record

Taking part in within the Kohl Heart–residence of the college’s basketball groups–for the primary time in 24 years, the Wisconsin volleyball group set a NCAA regular-season attendance report with 16,833 followers within the constructing to observe the No. 4 Badgers tackle Sixteenth-ranked Florida on Friday night time. 

The largely pro-Wisconsin crowd was raucous all through the night and positively bought the prospect to observe high-quality play. The match spanned 5 units and lasted two hours and 41 minutes earlier than the Gators lastly sealed the win, 25–21, 25–18, 26–28, 25–13, 15–13.

“What a particular setting this was,” Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield mentioned, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “In some unspecified time in the future down the highway, this will likely be an evening that our gamers will always remember. To have the ability to play and other people stand the complete time, lifting us up once we want it, that’s what we’ve come to count on from Badger followers. It was only a actually particular setting.”

Florida improved to 9–2 with the win, whereas Wisconsin dropped to five–2. The Badgers will look to get again on observe of their last nonconference match of the season Sunday in opposition to Rhode Island.

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