Question marks surrounding the Wisconsin volleyball program swirled for a week.
The Badgers had suffered two losses to conference rivals Penn State and Ohio State.
Then, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, then-No. 7 Illinois came to the UW Field House. A loss would have dropped the Badgers 0-3 in conference play, and could have potentially demoted them out of the top 25 rankings for the first time in nearly two years.
“Our demise has been greatly exaggerated,” head coach Kelly Sheffield joked after the match. “Not sure what that means. I heard it one time.”
What demise?