{"id":70973,"date":"2025-12-01T00:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70973\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:51:10","slug":"aggies-land-at-no-3-seed-in-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70973\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggies land at No. 3 seed in NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/tamu\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas A&amp;M volleyball<\/a> enjoyed a great season and now will be one of the higher-seeded teams in the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it may not be good fortune, exactly.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies earned a No. 3 seed Sunday. They now land in a bracket with top-seeded Nebraska, the five-time national champion and the only undefeated team left.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska volleyball (30-0, 20-0) wrapped up its undefeated regular season with a win over Ohio State (6-22, 3-17) in straight sets (25-16, 25-13, 25-20). The Huskers are the first team to go undefeated in the Big Ten since Penn State in 2009. Dani Busboom Kelly, a Nebraska graduate, took over the program for longtime coach John Cook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M made a run to the Sweet Sixteen last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies will face the Campbell Camels in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Since the Aggies are a top-four seed in their part of the bracket\u00a0Reed Arena will be home to the first and second round of the tournament. A&amp;M will travel for the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Texas A&amp;M beats Campbell, they will play the winner of Stephen F. Austin and TCU. The sixth seeded Horned Frogs played the Aggies in September and beat A&amp;M in five sets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&amp;M volleyball enjoyed a great season and now will be one of the higher-seeded teams in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3112,35730,33567,27,14539,29298,29,28],"class_list":["post-70973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-ncaa-volleyball","tag-ncaa-volleyball-tournament","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-volleyball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}