{"id":64836,"date":"2025-12-19T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64836\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:40:07","slug":"pitt-loses-to-texas-am-in-ncaa-volleyball-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64836\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitt loses to Texas A&#038;M in NCAA volleyball final four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitt lost 3-0 to Texas A&amp;M in the final four of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pitt-volleyball-louisville-ncaa-tournament-sendoff\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA women&#8217;s volleyball tournament<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1-seeded Panthers lost to third-seeded Texas A&amp;M in the national semifinal match at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Pitt&#8217;s season ended in the final four for the fifth consecutive season, while Texas A&amp;M is headed to its first-ever national championship.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>Pitt lost the first set 29-27, lost the second set 25-21, lost 25-20 in the third set. It was the first time this season that Pitt was swept.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An incredible season comes to an end in the National Semifinal,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pitt_VB\/status\/2001825657719083293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">Pitt volleyball posted to social media<\/a>\u00a0after the match.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt defeated UMBC, Michigan, Minnesota and Purdue to reach the final four. The Panthers finished the season 30-5, claiming at least a share of their fourth consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference title.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M will play the winner of Wisconsin-Kentucky on Sunday for the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitt lost 3-0 to Texas A&amp;M in the final four of the\u00a0NCAA women&#8217;s volleyball tournament\u00a0on Thursday. \u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1594,73,75,74,2553,14953],"class_list":["post-64836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-university-of-pittsburgh","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}