Buckeyes Battle Seventh-Ranked Badgers in Madison, Fall in Five Sets

Wednesday, November 27

Madison, Wis.

8:30 p.m.

Ohio State

14-15,7-12Big Ten

No. 7 Wisconsin

22-6,16-3Big Ten

Ohio St.

Wisconsin

Buckeyes Battle Seventh-Ranked Badgers in Madison, Fall in Five Sets

11/27/2024 11:51:00 PM | General, Women's Volleyball

Box Score

Ohio State fought back against No. 7 Wisconsin after losing the first two sets to play five on Wednesday night.

Box Score | Season Stats

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women's volleyball team (14-15, 7-12 B1G) fell to No. 7 Wisconsin (22-6, 16-3 B1G) in five sets (23-25, 14-25, 25-21, 26-24, 12-15) on Wednesday night in Madison.

The first set was tight throughout, featuring 14 ties and seven lead changes, before Wisconsin scored the final four points to take the set by a 25-23 margin. The Badgers led the second set from start to finish and earned a 25-14 set win. The Buckeyes grabbed an early lead in the third set and held off a late Wisconsin push to earn a 25-21 set win. Ohio State fended off a Wisconsin match point and scored the final three points of the set to win by a 26-24 margin and force a fifth.

Grace Egan was the first Buckeye to reach 10 kills and finished the match with a career-high 22 kills. Emily Londot continued her double figure kill streak with 17 kills and Rylee Rader finished with 10 kills on a .588 hitting percentage. Emmi Sellman recorded a career-high 15 digs and Olivia Hasbrook (13), Londot (12) and Egan (10) joined her in double figures. This is Londot's 17^th double-double of the season and Egan's fourth.

How it Happened
Emmi Sellman opened scoring in the match, but a pair of back-to-back points saw Wisconsin up by a 7-5 margin. Ohio State responded with a 3-0 run before the Badgers scored two points to take the lead back. After being tied at 10, the Buckeyes scored five of the next six points to take a 15-11 lead into the media timeout. Wisconsin battled back to tie the set at 18. The teams alternated points before back-to-back Badger points gave them a 21-20 lead. Following an OSU timeout, the Buckeyes scored three-unanswered points to take a 23-21 lead, but the Badgers tied the set again at 23. Wisconsin scored the next two points to take the set by a 25-23 margin.

Wisconsin scored the first two points of the second set and got off to a quick 5-1 lead. The Badgers scored back-to-back points on a trio of occasions to increase their lead to 13-6 and force a Buckeye timeout. The teams traded pairs of points and Ohio State called a second timeout trailing 18-11. Wisconsin put together an extended 6-1 run to build its lead to 22-12 and sealed a 25-14 set win.

The Badgers scored first in the third set but the Buckeyes built an early 7-3 lead to force a Wisconsin timeout. The teams traded points before Ohio State put together a 5-0 run, amidst a second Badger timeout, to increase its lead to 21-12. Wisconsin responded with the next four points to cut its deficit to 21-16 and used a 3-0 run to get within three points at 23-20. Ohio State extended the match with a 25-21 set win.

Wisconsin scored first in the fourth set and Ohio State used a 4-1 run to take a 7-5 lead. The Badgers answered with the next four points to lead by two at 9-7 and the Buckeyes did the same to take the lead back at 11-9. Beginning with Wisconsin, each team scored three-unanswered points and OSU went into the media timeout with a 15-13 lead. The set was tied at 16 before a 4-0 Buckeye run gave Ohio State a 20-16 lead amidst a Wisconsin timeout. It was the Buckeyes turn to call timeout trailing 21-20 after a 5-0 Badger run. Ohio State faced a Wisconsin match point trailing 24-23 before back-to-back Londot kills led to a 26-24 Buckeyes set win and forced a fifth set.

The Buckeyes scored the first two points of the fifth set before the Badgers tied the set at three. Wisconsin used a 3-0 run to take an 8-5 lead into the media timeout. The Badgers extended that lead to 9-5 out of the media timeout and the teams traded points with the Buckeyes trailing by three or four points. Ohio State called timeout down by a 12-8 margin. OSU responded with the next two points to prompt a Wisconsin timeout with the Buckeyes trailing 12-10. Ohio State would get no closer than two points at 14-12 and lost by a 15-12 margin.

Highlights

Match Notes

This is the ninth ranked opponent the Buckeyes have faced this season.
This is the eighth five-set match Ohio State has played this season.
Grace Egan was the first Buckeye to 10 kills in the match, including the 400^th kill of her career, and finished with a career-high 22 kills. She also recorded 10 digs for her fourth double-double of the season.
Emily Londot has had at least 10 kills in every match this season and totaled 17 kills tonight. She added 12 digs for her 17^th double-double of the season. Londot entered the top-five in program history with 396 career block assists and the top-10 with 1,264 career digs.
Emmi Sellman recorded a career-high 15 digs.
Olivia Hasbrook earned her 26^th match of the season with at least 10 digs by recording 13 digs in tonight's match.
Rylee Rader recorded her eighth match of the season with 10 or more kills. She totaled 10 kills tonight and hit .588, committing no errors. This is the best hitting percentage in a five-set match this season by any Buckeye.
Mia Tuman totaled 54 assists, just one shy of her season-high and two shy of her career-high.
S1: The set featured 14 ties and seven lead changes with the latest tie coming at 23-23.
S3: Ohio State took a 3-2 lead early that it would not relinquish.
S4: The set included 15 ties and 11 lead changes as Ohio State scored the final three points to clinch a 26-24 set win.

Up Next
Ohio State wraps up the regular season at No. 15 Minnesota on Friday at 7 p.m. ET on FS1.

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