Michigan State University
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Wisconsin
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Volleyball Falls to No. 11 Wisconsin
11/14/2025 9:53:00 PM | Volleyball
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State volleyball fell in three sets (25-17, 25-21, 28-26) to 11th-ranked Wisconsin Friday night inside the Breslin Center.Â
MSU drops to 18-7 overall and 8-7 in the Big Ten with the result, while Wisconsin improves to 19-4 and 12-3.Â
Wisconsin hit .398 for the match and led in kills (51-to-35), digs (37-23) and total blocks (13-6). MSU held a 3-2 edge in service aces.Â
Junior outside hitter Taylah Holdem led MSU in kills with 11 on .261 hitting and added one solo block and a service ace. Junior outside hitter Karolina Staniszewska posted nine kills, while junior middle blocker Zuzanna Kulig hit .385 and recorded six kills. Sophomore middle blocker Carmen Waye had a team-high three total blocks. Â
Junior libero Lia Schneider tallied a team-best eight digs and was one of three Spartans to post a service ace, joining Holdem and redshirt freshman setter Malayah Long. Long provided a team-high 17 assists.Â
Wisconsin used a pair of MSU errors and a block to take a 6-3 lead in the first before the Spartans used a 4-2 run, capped off by a Waye solo block, to tie the set at 8-8. After a Badger kill, the Spartans tied the set again at 9-9 with a block from Waye and Bianca Mumcular before a 4-1 Badger run forced an MSU timeout at 13-10. Wisconsin extended its lead to four with a kill out of the timeout before a Waye and Staniszewska block, Holdem kill and Wisconsin error got the Spartans within one at 14-13. Wisconsin followed with three-straight points to take a 17-13 lead and extended its lead to six at 22-16 with another 3-0 run. A Badger service error cut the deficit to five at 22-17, but Wisconsin closed the set with three-straight points to take the first, 25-17.Â
After the Badgers took a 3-1 lead to start the second set, a pair of kills from Staniszewska and a Wisconsin attack error gave MSU a one-point edge at 4-3. Wisconsin tied the set at 4-4 and 5-5 before the Spartans took the lead by a pair with kills from Mumcular and Holdem. A Wisconsin service error, Holdem solo block and Badger attack error gave MSU a three-point lead at 11-8, but Wisconsin responded with a 7-2 run to take a 15-13 lead at the media timeout. Back-to-back Wisconsin kills gave the Badgers an 18-13 before a Kulig kill, two kills from Holdem and a Wisconsin error helped the Spartans to a 4-0 run and one-point lead at 19-18. The Badgers tied the set at 19-19 and again at 20-20 before using three-straight kills to take a 23-20 lead and force an MSU timeout. A Badger service error got the Spartans within one out of the timeout at 23-21, but a kill and MSU error helped Wisconsin finish off the second set, 25-21.Â
MSU got out to a 7-3 lead in the third set after an Evie Doezema kill and continued to hold the lead early in the set, using a kill from Kulig, Long service ace and Kulig solo block for a 3-0 run to take a 15-11 lead at the media timeout. The Badgers got within two at 16-14, but MSU responded with a 3-0 run with a Wisconsin service error, block from Mia Hood and Doezema and Staniszewska kill to force a Wisconsin timeout at 19-14. The Badgers used a kill out of the timeout and back-to-back kills after a service error to then force the Spartans into a timeout of their own at 20-17. The Badgers followed with back-to-back points out of the timeout to close the gap to a point at 20-19 before a Wisconsin service error and Holdem kill extended the MSU lead back to three at 22-19. The Badgers called a timeout and went on a 4-1 run out of the break to tie the set at 23-23 before taking their first lead of the set with a kill at 24 to get to their first match point. MSU staved off the match point and used kills from Staniszewska and Holdem to fight off two more Wisconsin match points, but the Badgers put down back-to-back kills to take the set and match in extras, 28-26.Â
Up next, MSU travels to Ann Arbor to face Michigan on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. on B1G+.Â
