The No. 4 Wisconsin Badgers (10-3 Big Ten, 20-3 overall) had a shot at revenge and a chance to reassert themselves on top of the Big Ten standings against the No. 9 Purdue Boilermakers (11-4, 19-5) on Friday night.
Instead, Purdue stunned Wisconsin with a 3-1 (20-25, 25-19, 22-25, 21-25) win, dropping the Badgers to a three-way tie for first place in a performance where the Boilermakers again simply outclassed the Badgers.
“We got outworked and that’s not something that happens too often for these guys,” head coach Kelly Sheffield said afterwards.