Growing pains don’t come without disappointment and the No. 5 ranked Wisconsin volleyball team was no exception to that sentiment Friday night in a packed Field House.
The Badgers took on an unranked Western Kentucky team that returned 10 players from the 2014 season, a 30-6 campaign that ended in a Conference USA Championship. They would take the season opener from the Badgers in four sets on a night Wisconsin raised its Big Ten Championship banner.
For a while it seemed that head coach Kelly Sheffield’s team would steamroll the Hilltoppers when they cruised to a 25-13 first set win.