With a different formula from the last few matches, No 3 Minnesota (13-2, 7-0) picked up its seventh win to open conference play and eighth win in a row as they swept No. 7 Illinois (15-3, 4-3); 25-22, 25-19, 25-20.
For the last three matches, Minnesota has been offensively balanced and low error. Friday night that wasn’t the case but they got an explosive performance from Alexis Hart who finished with 15 kills, hitting .364.
As for the errors, Hugh wasn’t overly concerned, “It was an uncharacteristically high error performance for us. And maybe that’s just because we’ve been playing very low error volleyball, so maybe we kind of regressed to the mean.