{"id":93662,"date":"2025-12-19T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93662\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:48:08","slug":"texas-am-volleyball-stuns-no-1-pittsburgh-with-sweep-advances-to-national-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93662\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M volleyball stuns No. 1 Pittsburgh with sweep, advances to national title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Kyndal Stowers and Logan Lednicky combined for 34 points to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a> to a 29-27, 25-21, 25-20 sweep of Pittsburgh on Thursday, punching their ticket to the national championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Stowers led with 18 points and 16 kills on a 53% kill rate, while Lednicky had 16 points and 14 kills on a 45% kill rate. It was Lednicky\u2019s 22nd consecutive match with double-digit kills. Maddie Waak had 47 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The No. 3 seed Aggies (28-4) advance to the final for the first time in program history after never advancing past the Elite Eight. En route to the final, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/2025\/12\/14\/texas-am-volleyball-nebraska-ncaa-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/2025\/12\/14\/texas-am-volleyball-nebraska-ncaa-tournament\/\">the Aggies knocked off two No. 1 seeds in a previously undefeated Nebraska team<\/a>, and Pitt, along with No. 2 seed Louisville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Pitt had not been swept a single time this season before Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsday.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsday.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Olivia Babcock, a finalist for American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Year, led the Panthers (30-5) with 25 points, finishing with 22 kills and a 54% kill rate. No other Panthers player had double-digit points. Brooke Mosher had 31 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas A&amp;M will play the winner of Wisconsin and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsday.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/2025\/12\/18\/complete-predictions-texas-am-miami-alabama-oklahoma-other-first-round-cfp-matches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Complete predictions: Texas A&amp;M-Miami, Alabama-Oklahoma, other first-round CFP matches<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsday.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/2025\/12\/18\/texas-am-aggies-miami-hurricanes-college-football-playoff-prediction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M prediction: Can Aggies outduel Hurricanes in first round of CFP?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Texas A&amp;M coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Kyndal Stowers and Logan Lednicky combined for 34 points to lead Texas A&amp;M to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,3688,154,27,260,29,28,5670],"class_list":{"0":"post-93662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-am-aggies","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-volleyball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93662","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=93662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}