diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansModel.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansModel.scala
index 9d115afcea75..4c5794fbffc8 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansModel.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansModel.scala
@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ class BisectingKMeansModel private[clustering] (
 
   @Since("2.0.0")
   override def save(sc: SparkContext, path: String): Unit = {
-    BisectingKMeansModel.SaveLoadV1_0.save(sc, this, path)
+    BisectingKMeansModel.SaveLoadV2_0.save(sc, this, path)
   }
 
-  override protected def formatVersion: String = "1.0"
+  override protected def formatVersion: String = "2.0"
 }
 
 @Since("2.0.0")
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ object BisectingKMeansModel extends Loader[BisectingKMeansModel] {
         val model = SaveLoadV1_0.load(sc, path)
         model
       case (SaveLoadV2_0.thisClassName, SaveLoadV2_0.thisFormatVersion) =>
-        val model = SaveLoadV1_0.load(sc, path)
+        val model = SaveLoadV2_0.load(sc, path)
         model
       case _ => throw new Exception(
         s"BisectingKMeansModel.load did not recognize model with (className, format version):" +
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansSuite.scala
index 35f7932ae822..4a4d8b5c89de 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/BisectingKMeansSuite.scala
@@ -187,11 +187,12 @@ class BisectingKMeansSuite extends SparkFunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
 
     val points = (1 until 8).map(i => Vectors.dense(i))
     val data = sc.parallelize(points, 2)
-    val model = new BisectingKMeans().run(data)
+    val model = new BisectingKMeans().setDistanceMeasure(DistanceMeasure.COSINE).run(data)
     try {
       model.save(sc, path)
       val sameModel = BisectingKMeansModel.load(sc, path)
       assert(model.k === sameModel.k)
+      assert(model.distanceMeasure === sameModel.distanceMeasure)
       model.clusterCenters.zip(sameModel.clusterCenters).foreach(c => c._1 === c._2)
     } finally {
       Utils.deleteRecursively(tempDir)