Two squads on a hot streak meet when Texas volleyball hosts Wisconsin in an Elite Eight match Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at Gregory Gymnasium in Austin.

The  top-seeded Longhorns (26-3) had yet to drop a set in three NCAA Tournament contests entering Sunday’s contest, but Wisconsin (27-4) held on for a 25-22 win in the first set. The Badgers fended off another late Texas run in the second set to win 25-21, and suddenly the Longhorns are a set away from the end of the season.

Follow along for live scores and updates from a NCAA Tournament first-round match between  the Texas Longhorns and the Wisconsin Badgers.

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In almost a carbon copy of set one, Wisconsin holds off another Texas rally and closes things out with a kill by Mimi Colyer (10 kills). Nebraska lost earlier today and we have another 3 vs. 1 upset brewing in Austin. Wisconsin leads 2-0.

In almost a carbon copy of set one, Wisconsin holds off another Texas rally and closes things out with a kill by Mimi Colyer (10 kills). Nebraska lost earlier today and we have another 3 vs. 1 upset brewing in Austin. Wisconsin leads 2-0.

The Badgers respond out of the timeout. So far, a tour de force for Wisconsin, which is the lone team left in the tournament carrying the Big Ten banner. Wisconsin leads 1-0.

More late-set drama, and Wisconsin takes a timeout. Texas is on a 3-0 run after back-to-back kills from Whitney Lauenstein. Big Hit Whit has had quite the comeback this NCAA Tournament. Wisconsin leads 1-0.

Madi Colyer is doing yeoman’s work on the left side for Wisconsin, but Carter Booth is the secret weapon in the middle with seven kills on 10 swings. Texas needs it block to figure out the Badger attack.  Wisconsin leads 1-0.

Texas coach Jerritt Elliott takes a timeout before things get too far south this set. Wisconsin setter Charlie Fuerbringer (22 assists already) has the Badger attack clicking, and Texas is looking from some of that Gregory mojo. Wisconsin leads 1-0.

Mimi Colyer closes out the first set with her sixth kill. Texas has been red hot throughout the NCAA Tournament but only hit .229 that set. They’ll need more from that fourth outside that rotates in.

Another Wisconsin timeout after back-to-back kills from Torrey Stafford and Nya Bunton. Longhorns on a 5-0 run.

Cari Spears rips a kill off the fingertips of the Wisconsin block, and Badger coach Kelly Sheffield takes a timeout. Wisconsin can’t let this one get away if it hopes for an upset.

Jerritt Elliott takes yet another timeout. Texas is off-balance right now; that Badger service game is doing a heckuva job in the first set. 

A block by Badger setter Charlie Fuerbringer and an attacking error from Whitney Lauenstein, and Texas HC Jerritt Elliott takes a timeout.

The Badgers withstood a brief early flurry from Texas and are settling in. Mimi Colyer has four kills on eight swings but has been blocked twice. She doesn’t shy away from the heavy swing.

Heavy artillery on both sides of the net so far. Abby Vander Wal (3 kills) has been active for UT; Texas HC Jerritt Elliott must like the matchup on the left side.

A hitting error by Wisconsin, and we’re off at Greg.

The winner of the final Elite Eight match between Texas and Wisconsin will join Pittsburgh, Kentucky and Texas A&M in the Final Four in Kansas City, Mo. Texas A&M stunned No. 1 Nebraska in an epic 5-set match Sunday. Either Texas or Wisconsin will play SEC champion Kentucky Thursday evening.

Where: Gregory Gymnasium in Austin

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Texas A&M volleyball experienced it all Sunday: surprising top-ranked Nebraska with a first-set win, then shocking the Cornhuskers by going up 2-0 with a second set win, then dipped in the third and survived a marathon fourth set to prevail in five, knocking off Nebraska 25-22, 25-22, 20-25, 35-37, 15-13 in Lincoln, Neb.

The Aggies (27-4) will face Pittsburgh in the Final Four national semifinals Thursday.

Kyndal Stowers’ 25 kills matched Nebraska’s Harper Murray’s 25, but the difference was the rest of the teams’ lineups. A&M got 24 kills from Logan Lednicky, including the winning kill on match point, but Nebraska’s next-highest scorer had 15. 

The Aggies hit .275 and had a season-high nine service aces.

Nebraska (33-1) hoped to repeat its Elite Eight comebacks of 2006 and 2008, when the Huskers started 0-2 before rallying to beat Minnesota and Washington in five sets. But the Aggies brushed off what could have been a letdown after missing out on three match points in the emotional fourth set to control most of the final set.

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These were our live updates throughout Sunday’s match:

Elite Eight live updates  

Two points away from the match, A&M’s 13-11 lead became 13-12 on a Kyndal Stowers miss, but Logan Lednicky put the Aggies to match point (14-11) with a big kill.

Nebraska’s Harper Murray saved one match point with a kill to make it 14-13 but then Lednicky put the match away with a kill.

Texas A&M has won 25-22, 25-22, 20-25, 35-37, 15-13.

The Aggies will play in the Final Four, opening against Pitt on Thursday.

Texas A&M is two points away from the Final Four.

Nebraska won two quick points out of the Huskers timeout on a Rebekah Allick kill and a Kyndal Stowers attack error, but a Stowers kill gave A&M a 13-10 lead.

But Nebraska’s Laney Choboy served an ace to make it 13-11, and the Aggies have called a timeout.

Texas A&M leads 12-7 in this fifth set.

The Aggies went up 11-7 on a Morgan Perkins kill and then went up 12-7 on a Taylor Landfair shot that went wide.

The Huskers have called their final timeout.

This fifth set is going Texas A&M’s way, but don’t forget that Nebraska has won the last two sets with its backs against the NCAA wall.

The Aggies have taken 5-3, 7-5, 8-6 and 9-6 leads in this fifth set.

Texas A&M couldn’t convert on three match points and Nebraska, after eight foiled set points, finally broke through for a manic 37-35 fourth set win to force the deciding fifth set.

Nebraska had captured momentum heading into Texas A&M’s timeout, and kept it going when a Kyndal Stowers attack error tied the match 19-19.

Stowers redeemed herself with a kill to put A&M up 20-19, but Nebraska challenged. The Huskers lost the challenge, but then tied it 20-20 on a Rebekah Allick kill. Harper Murray put Nebraska up 21-20 with a kill, but Stowers answered to make it 21-21. That became 22-21 A&M on a Murray miss wide, but it was tied again 22-22 on a Huskers point.

From there, it was a dizzying finish to the set:

• Mania Ogbechie’s kill made it 23-22 Nebraska, but the Aggies tied it 23-23 on an Ifenna Cos-Okpalla block off a Harper shot. Nebraska went up 24-23 on a Virginia Adriano kill, but Logan Lednicky made it 24-24 with her 19th kill.

• The Huskers went up 25-24 on a Teraya Sigler drop shot, giving them their second set point. A Lednicky kill tied it up 25-25, which Nebraska turned into a 26-25 advantage on a Bergen Reilly kill. Ogbechie, a freshman who hadn’t served all season, served wide to make it 26-26 (Nebraska was out of subs). The Huskers then went up 27-26 for their fourth set point, which again was denied on a Stowers kill for 27-27.

• Nebraska made it 28-27 (Allick), but a net error tied it up 28-28. A sixth set point was again foiled by a Cos-Okpalla block, tying it 29-29. Nebraska then went up 30-29 off a Lednicky miss, and it soon became a 31-30 Huskers lead. Lednicky made it 31-31 with a kill and the Aggies earned a match point off a Murray miss, 32-31.

• But Lednicky served into the net for 32-32. That forced Ogbechie to serve again, which she missed, to tie it 33-33. An Aggies kill from Stowers made it 34-33, which Nebraska tied 34-34 on an Allick kill. Nebraska went up 35-34 on a Stowers miss, which then was tied again on a Stowers kill.

• Nebraska went up 36-35 on a Murray kill, and then won the set on a Laney Choboy kill.

A 5-3 Nebraska run has the fourth set up for grabs.

Logan Lednicky’s 17th kill of the match put Texas A&M up 19-14, which Nebraska cut to 19-15 on a Rebeka Allick kill and then 19-16 on Bergen Reilly’s service ace. That then became 19-17 on a Kyndal Stowers attack error. And another Stowers attack error made it 19-18 and the Aggies have called their final timeout.

A third straight kill by Logan Lednicky made it a 16-10 lead for Texas A&M, which became a 17-11 lead on an Emily Hellmuth kill, which then led to an 18-12 advantage. A Morgan Perkins attack error made it 18-13, and a kill from Harper Murray made it 18-14.

Texas A&M has called a timeout.

Texas A&M came out of the Nebraska timeout with a quick point off a Huskers attack error, leading 11-7, but a Taylor Landfair kill stopped a 4-0 Aggies run. But Kyndal Stowers put A&M up 12-8, which Nebraska’s Harper Murray turned into 12-9 on another kill from her.

But a Huskers service error put A&M up 13-9, which Nebraska then cut to 13-10 off an Andi Jackson kill. The Aggies then pushed that lead to 15-10 on a pair of Logan Lednicky kills, and the Huskers have called their final timeout, trailing 15-10 and down 2 sets to 1.

This fourth set was back-and-forth, but Texas A&M has gained momentum. The Huskers were up 5-2 early, but a 4-1-run for A&M has given the Aggies a 10-7 advantage.

Nebraska, trailing 2-1 in sets, has called a timeout.

Texas A&M and Nebraska are headed to a fourth set.

The Aggies and Huskers traded points out of the A&M timeout to make it a 21-18 Nebraska lead, which became 22-18 after a Logan Lednicky shot that went wide.  A&M made it 22-19, but Kyndal Stowers’ serve then went long, giving the ball back to Nebraska, which then went up 24-19 after a Lednicky error.

On set point. Emily Hellmuth had a kill to make it a 24-20 score, but Harper Murray gave the Huskers the set with her 16th kill.

A&M’s timeout at 10-5 was a good move. A 4-0 run made it a 10-9 game, which the Huskers extended to 11-9 on a Harper Murray kill. Teraya Sigler’s service ace made it 12-9, but Ifenna Cos-Okpalla stopped the bleeding with a kill.

But a quick kill from Rebekah Allick and a Virginia Adriano kill made it 14-10. A&M, down to its final challenge, successfully challenged a net infraction that turned it into a 13-11 game which soon became 14-12 after Emily Hellmuth’s ninth kill of the match. The Huskers and Aggies went back and forth from there 16-15 Nebraska, 17-15 Nebraska and then 18-15 Nebraska after a Kyndal Stowers attack error.

But Stowers made up for it with a kill for 18-16, then Tatum Thomas’s service ace made it 18-17.

An Allick kill made it 19-17 and Murray made it 20-17 on her 15th kill.

The Aggies, up 2-0 in sets, have called timeout at 20-17.

Nebraska, facing a do-or-die situation in the third set, doesn’t look like it will go down easy.

The Huskers have jumped out to a 9-5 lead in the third set after a Harper Murray kill, a Bergen Reilly ace and a Virginia Adriano kill.

A&M has called a timeout, trailing 10-5.

The Aggies won the first two sets 25-22, 25-22.

Texas A&M is one set away from advancing to the Final Four after shocking No. 1 Nebraska by taking the first two sets in their NCAA regional final in Lincoln, Neb.

After taking a timeout leading 24-22, Logan Lednicky’s kill down the line gave the Aggies the set.

Through two sets, Emily Hellmuth and Kyndal Stowers each have 10 kills to lead the Aggies. Lednicky has seven. A&M is hitting .292 to Nebraska’s .275 and has eight aces to Nebraska’s three.

Up 24-20, Nebraska won back-to-back points to cut A&M’s lead to 24-22.

The Aggies have called a timeout.

An Emily Hellmuth kill (her eighth of the match) put Texas A&M up 20-16, which became 21-16 after a Nebraska attack error. The Huskers cut that to 21-17 off a Taylor Landfair kill. Kyndal Stowers’ eighth kill made it 22-17. Nebraska cut it to 22-18, but Stowers made it 23-18. Logan Lednicky made it 24-20.

Nebraska called a timeout trailing 14-11 in the second set, but the break didn’t do the trick. Texas A&M has battled for a 19-15 advantage off kills from Morgan Perkins and Emily Hellmuth, and the Huskers have called another timeout.

The Aggies have eight aces so far. That’s a season high.

After dropping the first set 25-22, Nebraska opened the second set with an ace, but soon the set followed the first-set storyline: back and forth, with A&M getting the advantage on the longer points but the Huskers faring better up front at the net. 

Taylor Landfair crosscourt shtot made it 11-10 Nebraska, but the Aggies ralled for a 14-11 lead.

The Huskers have called a timeout.

Texas A&M has made a big statement in this match, shocking Nebraska by taking the first set 25-22.

The Aggies trailed 15-10, then went on a 10-0 scoring run to turn their deficit into a 20-15 lead.

From there, it was back and forth. An Emily Hellmuth service error made it 22-21, and Morgan Perkins’ kill put A&M up 23-21. The Cornhuskers answered to make it 23-22, but Kyndal Stowers’ kill made it 24-22 and then the Aggies won the set on a service ace.

Hellmuth and Stowers are leading the way early; they both have five kills to lead the team.

It was only the third time Nebraska has dropped the opening set all season.

Where: John Cook Arena at Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb.