{"id":84087,"date":"2025-12-11T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84087\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:52:11","slug":"predictions-for-texas-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84087\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions for Texas, Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each team has a tough road to maneuver if it wants to play for a national title\u00a0Dec. 21 in Kansas City, Mo. The Longhorns, seeded No. 1 in their part of the bracket, are hosting this weekend’s games after taking down Florida A&M<\/a> and defending champion Penn State<\/a> last week in Austin. Up first is No. 4 Indiana on Friday. The winner of that match will play Sunday against either Stanford<\/a> or Wisconsin<\/a>, teams that the Longhorns beat earlier this season.<\/p>\n

For A&M, it hosted the first two rounds as a No. 3 seed, dispatching Campbell <\/a>and TCU<\/a>. Now, the\u00a0Aggies are playing in the Nebraska Regional hosted by the mighty Cornhuskers. They’ll get Louisville on Friday before a potential Sunday matchup with top-seeded Nebraska or Kansas.<\/p>\n

So who will win this weekend’s games? And the national title? Two of American-Statesman staffers make their predictions, differing slightly on the Elite Eight and Final Four.<\/p>\n

Here are our bracket predictions:<\/p>\n

Thomas Jones covers Texas volleyball for the Statesman. He has the Longhorns making an impressive run, but not quite hoisting the trophy at season’s end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Round of 16 winners
Texas
Wisconsin
Arizona State
Kentucky
Nebraska
Louisville
Purdue
Pittsburgh
Quarterfinal winners
Texas
Kentucky
Nebraska
Pittsburgh
Semifinal winners
Texas
Nebraska
National champion
Nebraska<\/p>\n

Zoe Collins Rath, the Statesman’s sports producer, has covered both Texas and Texas A&M volleyball this season. Here’s what she thinks:<\/p>\n

Round of 16 winners
Texas
Wisconsin
Creighton
Kentucky
Nebraska
Louisville
SMU
Pitt
Quarterfinal winners
Texas
Kentucky
Nebraska
SMU
Semifinal winners
Nebraska
Kentucky
National Champion
Nebraska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each team has a tough road to maneuver if it wants to play for a national title\u00a0Dec. 21…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35730,33567,22542,27,14539,29298,29,537,1074,28],"class_list":["post-84087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ncaa-volleyball","tag-ncaa-volleyball-tournament","tag-sec-volleyball","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-texas-a-m-aggies-volleyball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-volleyball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84087","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=84087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}