Where Wisconsin volleyball landed in the first AVCA Top 25 of the season

The Badgers are in the top three of the opening poll

It’s a new season of collegiate volleyball and the Wisconsin Badgers are once again expected to be near the top of the pack.

The Badgers came in at No. 2 in the first AVCA Top 25 poll of the season, and get things started on Saturday, August 19 as they take on the University of Illinois at Chicago. That matchup is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. CT and will be the season opener and home opener at UW Field House.

Only Texas was ranked ahead of Wisconsin to start the year, and the Badgers got 7 first place votes in the opening poll. Nebraska, Minnesota, and Penn State all cracked the top ten as the Big Ten was the only conference to have more than two teams present in the top ten of the opening rankings.