In Wisconsin's last game at the Fieldhouse until November, the UW volleyball team had some milestones to try to achieve in front of the home fans before hitting the road for four straight games.

The Badgers (15-2, 7-1 Big Ten) did that and more in manhandling the Indiana Hoosiers (8-11, 1-6) Friday night 30-14, 30-25, 30-12.

After dominating the Hoosiers in the first game, No. 8 Wisconsin survived a second-game scare by coming from behind 22-24 to win eight of the last nine points. They carried that momentum into the third game to clinch the sweep.

"It's a lot of fun when we're doing the little things," senior co-captain Aubrey Meierotto said. "The second game was a little chaotic; we just didn't have the right chemistry. But it's a lot of fun when everything is rolling right."

Meierotto, an outside hitter, has helped the Badgers roll right for a long time in Madison. She became the 15th Badger in history to hit 1,000 career kills on Friday, and it came at an essential point in the match, with the teams tied 19-19 in the second game.

"[The milestone] feels good," Meierotto said. "I'm really glad … that it happened here [at home]. I thought it was pretty neat."

UW head coach Pete Waite also reached a personal achievement with the Indiana win, posting his 100th conference victory in his seventh season at Wisconsin.

"A hundred wins in the Big Ten is something different," Waite said. "I learned when I came here that this is a tough conference, and you have to battle all the time.

"We work hard as a staff, we work hard as a team … trying to get better. So I don't look at a certain number of wins, but it's a nice milestone."

Wisconsin's balanced attacking game was at it again with even better numbers. Three UW outside hitters had at least 10 kills, led by Meierotto and junior Maria Carlini with 15 each. Freshman Audra Jeffers added 10 more.

Impressively, six Wisconsin players posted a hitting percentage of at least .400, helping UW set a season-high team average of .413. The Badgers smacked 62 kills while tallying just 12 errors.

And all of this happened while UW starting setter Jackie Simpson had the night off. Junior Katie Lorenzen came in and controlled the Badger offense against Indiana, with a season-best 50 assists.

"I thought this was an opportunity to let [Katie] start and get some playing time," Waite said. "It's much different being a starter than coming off the bench. This was her shot to take the team for the night, and she did a good job."

"I just try to take the same attitude every time, to just focus on getting our team going and stopping the other team, so I try not to get more nervous when I'm starting or anything like that," Lorenzen added.

Perhaps most impressive about the Badger attack was stymieing middle blocker Mandy Eberle of the Hoosiers. Eberle came into the match ranked third in the Big Ten with 1.55 blocks per game, but left the Fieldhouse without a single solo or assist on the block. Wisconsin out-blocked Indiana 10-4 as a team overall.

"I think it says a lot for our passing, our defense, and our setter distributing the ball," Waite said. "We've got routes going all the time, there are ways that we pull blockers one way while going the opposite direction, and … that makes it hard for them.

"I just think there were times they were really spinning as blockers trying to keep up with the pace of our offense."

Meierotto attributed the UW offensive eruption to Lorenzen's style in the passing game to keep Indiana off-balance during the entire match.

"A lot of it had to do with Katie's setting, getting a lot of one-on-ones [against their defense], and that makes it harder for their split blocks," she said.

In other Badger statistics, sophomore libero Jocelyn Wack continued her double-digit digs streak, now up to 48 matches, with 14 digs. Lorenzen and sophomore Megan Mills assisted Wack on the defense with eight digs each.

Sophomore Taylor Reineke continued to defeat teams in surprisingly quiet fashion. The 6-foot-3 middle blocker hit seven kills without an error, and keyed the blocking with five blocks, all assisted.

With a shortened week of practice, Lorenzen said that the Badgers did a nice job of taking care of what needed to be done against one of the Big Ten's weaker teams.

"We focused on [the match on] Wednesday, and then we were able to come out and have a good practice yesterday, and then come out and win this game tonight."