Wisconsin-Texas Leads a Packed Sunday of Top 25 Volleyball

Sunday’s NCAA volleyball schedule is much deeper than one marquee matchup. Thirteen matches involving Top 25 teams stretch across the day, but the centerpiece comes in Austin, where #6 Wisconsin visits #9 Texas in another major early-season test for two programs that have spent September measuring themselves against some of the best teams in the country.

Wisconsin’s record does not tell the story of its season particularly well. The Badgers opened 1-3 after facing four consecutive Top 10 opponents in Kentucky, Louisville, Stanford and Pittsburgh, but have begun turning that difficult start into momentum. They beat Florida in five sets, swept Auburn and then rallied past Texas A&M in another five-set match Friday, winning the final five points of the fifth set to complete the comeback. Sunday gives Wisconsin another opportunity to show that the team emerging from that opening gauntlet may be considerably more dangerous than its early record suggested.