Volleyball Falls to Ohio State - Michigan State University Athletics

Saturday, November 7

East Lansing, Mich.

6 PM

Michigan State University

17-7,7-7Big Ten

Ohio State

11-13,4-10Big Ten

Team	1	2	3	4	5	Final F
Ohio St.	19	25	26	25	15	3
Michigan St.	25	22	28	22	9	2

Photo by: Ynhi Le

11/7/2026 9:50:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score Ohio State 3, MSU 2

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State volleyball dropped a five-set contest (19-25, 25-22, 26-28, 25-22, 15-9) to Ohio State Saturday night at the Breslin Center.

MSU drops to 17-7 overall and 7-7 in the conference with the result, while Ohio State moves to 11-13 and 4-10.

The Spartans hit .259 for the match and held the Buckeyes to .240 hitting while leading in kills (65-63), digs (71-62) and total blocks (13-8). The teams were even in service aces with four apiece.

MSU was led in kills by freshman outside hitter Madi Andrews, who posted a career-high 18 while adding eight digs and a service ace. Senior middle blocker Zora Hardison put up a career-high 17 kills on .378 hitting and tied junior middle blocker Breccan Scheck with a team-best five total blocks. Sophomore opposite Bianca Mumcular added a season-high 11 kills.

Redshirt sophomore setter Malayah Long tallied her fifth double-double of the season with a team-high 49 assists and 10 digs. Senior libero Lia Schneider also added 10 digs.

MSU called a timeout early in the first after Ohio State jumped out to a 7-3 lead. The Buckeyes stretched their lead to five with a service ace out of the timeout, but MSU responded with a 5-1 run with a pair of blocks and kills from Alanna Bankston, Scheck and Mumcular to get within one at 9-8 before tying the set at 10-10 with a Scheck service ace. MSU then fired off five-straight points with kills two Andrews kills, a pair of Buckeye errors and a block from Long and Hardison to take a 15-12 lead at the media timeout. OSU got back within two with a kill out of the timeout before taking a timeout of its own after back-to-back MSU kills from Hardison and Scheck helped the Spartans to an 18-14 lead. The Buckeyes called another timeout at 23-17 after two-straight MSU points and stopped a pair of MSU set points at 24-17 and 24-18, but a kill from Mumcular finished off the set to give the Spartans the first, 25-19.

After the Buckeyes got within one in the second set at 4-3, MSU used kills from Bankston and Andrews and blocks from Mumcular, Andrews and Scheck to force an OSU timeout at 8-3. MSU then called a timeout of its own after the Buckeyes went on a 7-3 run to get within a point at 11-10. Back-to-back OSU points helped the Buckeyes take a 13-12 lead, but a pair of Bankston kills and a Long kill gave the Spartans a two-point, 15-13 advantage at the media timeout. The teams traded points back-and-forth in the following points until back-to-back OSU points helped the Buckeyes to a 21-19 lead to force an MSU timeout. OSU finished off the set with a kill after the Spartans stopped a pair of set points to take the second, 25-22.

The Spartans forced an OSU timeout after 3-0 run with a Long kill, Ky Clayton service ace and OSU attack error at 9-4 early in the third. After the Buckeyes tied the set at 13-13, MSU used a Buckeye attack error and Hardison kill to retake a two-point lead at the media timeout at 15-13. OSU tied the set at 19-19 with a kill, but a 3-0 MSU run in response with a Schneider libero kill, OSU error and Mumcular helped the Spartans force a Buckeye timeout at 22-19. MSU continued its run out of the timeout with a Hardison kill to make it 23-19 and got to set point at 24-20 with a Hardison kill. The Buckeyes tied the set back up three times, but an Andrews kill followed by a Buckeye attack error finished off the set for MSU in extras, 28-26.

In a back-and-forth start to the fourth set, OSU took a two-point advantage with a kill for a 15-13 lead at the media timeout. MSU tied the set out of the timeout with a Mumcular kill and OSU attack error at 15-15 and again at 17-17 with an Andrews kill. The Spartans were forced into a timeout after OSU responded with back-to-back points to take back a two-point lead at 19-17 and took another timeout at 23-21 after a service error. MSU cut the OSU lead to one with a Hardison kill out of the timeout, but OSU responded with back-to-back points to force a fifth set, 25-22.

MSU called a timeout after OSU opened a 4-0 lead to start the fifth. The Spartans then forced OSU into a timeout of its own after a 3-0 with three-straight Andrews kills to cut the Buckeye lead to three at 9-6. Another Andrews kill out of the timeout made it 9-7 in favor of the Buckeyes, but OSU finished off the set with a 6-2 to seal the match, 15-9.

Up next, MSU hosts Purdue on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. inside the Breslin Center on B1G+.