MADISON— The No. 3 Wisconsin Badgers (9-1 Big Ten, 17-1 overall) looked dead in the water, down big in the third set and heading to 2-1 down in the match with the Field House crowd — and Badger performance — falling flat.
But in an epic match that was the longest in Wisconsin history, clocking in at 179 minutes, the Badgers found a spark of life in the fourth set and clobbered the No. 14 Penn State Nittany Lions (7-3, 14-6) in the fifth set to win in a 3-2 thriller that spoke volumes on the team’s grittiness.