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Wolverines to Head to No. 7 Wisconsin Seeking Second Straight Upset
10/3/2025 12:25:00 PM | Volleyball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan volleyball team (11-3, 1-2 Big Ten) will travel to Madison, Wis., on Sunday (Oct. 5) to face No. 7 Wisconsin (10-1, 3-0 Big Ten) inside UW Field House. The match will be broadcast live on Big Ten Plus.
Notes
• U-M enters the matchup fresh off an upset win over No. 10 Minnesota. The Wolverines hit .383 overall and topped .400 in each of the final three sets, including .444 in the second frame. Michigan held the Gophers to a .093 hitting percentage and below .100 in the last three sets. It was Michigan's first ranked win under head coach Erin Virtue and the program's first since 2022.
• Michigan ranks 12th nationally and fifth in the Big Ten in hitting percentage, with three Wolverines placing in the conference's top five individually: Serena Nyambio is third in the league, hitting .435 with 88 kills on 168 swings; Jenna Hanes ranks fourth at .414 (76 kills on 152 swings); Lydia Johnson is fifth at .408 (117 kills on 238 swings).
• Johnson has emerged as one of U-M's top performers this season after limited action her first two years. She surpassed 100 kills on the year with 10 against Michigan State, then added 14 versus Minnesota. Among Big Ten players with more than 100 kills, Johnson leads in hitting percentage and is one of only two in the conference's top 15.
• Nyambio is enjoying a standout final season, leading the team and ranking second in the Big Ten with a .435 hitting percentage. She also leads U-M with 53 blocks after pacing the Wolverines in both categories last season (.331 hitting, 114 blocks). Nyambio has recorded at least two kills and two blocks in every match, with season highs of 15 kills and seven blocks. Her .305 career hitting percentage currently ranks fifth in program history.
• In her sixth season, Allison Jacobs is averaging more than four kills per set and leads Michigan with 193 total. She is hitting .253 while contributing 18 aces (a career high), 86 digs, 18 assists and 22 blocks. Jacobs recorded double-digit kills in the first eight matches and 10 of the first 11 this year. After a slow start to Big Ten play, she bounced back with 20 kills against Minnesota.
• Morgan Burke, U-M's primary setter since her freshman season, has started 58 consecutive matches. She posted a season-high 42 assists against Minnesota as the Wolverines shifted to a 5-1 system, adding four kills, two aces, 20 digs and four blocks over the last two matches. Burke sits at 1,980 career assists, just 20 shy of becoming the 10th player in program history to reach 2,000.
• Sophomore Ella Demetrician has broken into the starting lineup, earning starts in each of the last seven matches. In those contests, she has recorded 67 kills, 38 digs and three aces, with five double-digit kill efforts. After totaling just 28 kills in limited action across the first seven matches, Demetrician has improved her hitting percentage by nearly 75 points from her freshman season while adding over a kill per set.
• Wisconsin is 10-1 overall and 3-0 in Big Ten play, with its only loss coming to No. 5 Texas. The Badgers have yet to drop a set in conference action, sweeping Rutgers, Iowa and Illinois. All-time, Michigan is 21-63 against Wisconsin. The teams last met on Oct. 20, 2024, a four-set Badger win, while U-M's last victory in the series came in Madison on Nov. 4, 2018.
