Nebraska hosted Kansas State in the second round of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament on Saturday.

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The Huskers got on the board first thanks to Harper Murray.

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Virginia Adriano forced a Wildcat timeout after a solo block and a kill. Nebraska led 13-7.

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Nebraska won set 1, 25-17.

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Kansas State got on the board first, but the Huskers bounced back quickly.

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The Huskers won set 2, 25-21.

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The Wildcats got out ahead of the Huskers, but Andi Jackson was able to tie things up at five apiece.

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Adriano with a kill made it 18-12 Nebraska.

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With a 25-16 set 3 win, the Husker swept Kansas State to advance to the Sweet 16 for the 41st time in program history.

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Nebraska will play Kansas in the next round of the tournament. The time and date have yet to be announced.

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The Nebraska volleyball team enters the second round of the NCAA tournament after sweeping Long Island on Friday. The Huskers now face the Kansas State Wildcats, who defeated San Diego in five sets.

Nebraska’s offense ranks first nationally with a .352 hitting percentage. The defense is equally impressive, ranking first nationally in opponent hitting percentage at .125. 

Junior Harper Murray leads the team with 3.55 kills and 2.15 digs per set and a team high 28 aces. Setter Bergen Reilly runs the offense at an elite level with an average of 10.31 assists and 2.73 digs per set. Middle blocker Andi Jackson is averaging 2.75 kills per set on .467 hitting with 1.13 blocks per set. 

BOSTON, Mass – Boston College Women’s Track & Field began the indoor season at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday. Sydney Segalla highlighted the meet with a facility and school record.

Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener

• Ron-Niah Wright ran an 8.04 and Erin Finley ran an 8.47 in the 60m dash.
• Segalla clocked a 37.40 to win the 300m event. Her time broke the BU Track & Tennis Center facility record by 0.04 seconds and the BC school record by nearly 2 seconds.
• Gina Certo (38.65), Anna Sonsini (38.38), Anna Becker (39.19), and Ava Carter (40.22) also competed in the 300m, each setting top ten all-time marks.
• Kyla Palmer and Yaroslava Yalysovetska competed in the 600m. Palmer finished sixth place overall, recording a new personal best of 1:33.13 and moving to second all-time in BC program history. Yalysovetska finished in eighth place at 1:35.52.
• Iris Bergman ran a 4:52.06 in the mile for 13th place.
• Imogen Gardiner torched her 5000m heat, taking first place with a time of 15:40.39. Her time placed her ninth overall and put her second on BC’s all-time top ten list.
• Ella Fadil, Kyra Holland, and Molly FitzPatrick all set top ten program marks in the 5000m. Fadil ran a 15:53.04 for 26th place overall, while Holland finished 31st overall at 15:55.63, and Fitzpatrick finished 55th with a 16:08.26 mark.

Next Up: The Eagles return for the Suffolk Ice Breaker Challenge at the TRACK at New Balance on January 18.

AUSTIN, Texas. — The No. 3 Texas Volleyball team swept No. 25 Penn State (25-16, 25-9, 25-19). The Longhorns are now 25-3 on the season and will compete in the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the 20th-straight season. 

Longhorns saw junior Torrey Stafford record a match-leading 21 kills, along with five digs and three blocks. It marks Stafford’s fourth game hitting over .500 this season with a .556 hitting percentage. Freshman Abby Vander Wal added 10 kills and two blocks while hitting .474. Fellow freshman Cari Spears totaled nine kills with three blocks and three digs. Spears recorded her seventh game over .400 (.467) hitting percentage tonight. 

The Longhorns defense put up nine blocks, led by Nya Bunton and Ayden Ames, who each recorded four. It marks the fourth highest total for blocks in a three-set match for Texas. The Lions were limited to a .124 hitting percentage and finished 22 errors. Texas hit .452 as a team, its sixth time this season hitting over .400. 

Set One: Penn State was held to a .167 hitting percentage with four service errors and eight attacking errors. Stafford led the set with six kills while hitting .455. Ramsey Gary added five digs for the Longhorns on defense. 

Set Two: Texas dominated the second after extending the lead to 19-7 on an 11-0 run, with two consecutive block effort from Spears, Nya Bunton and Stafford. Texas took set two, 25-9. The Longhorns hit .700 while limiting the Lions at -.065. Spears notched six kills while Ella Swindle put up 10 assists. Texas totaled four blocks in the set, with Bunton contributing three. 

Set Three: The Longhorns completed the sweep over Penn State, winning the third set 25-19. Stafford registered 11 kills while hitting .611, and Gary added six digs on defense. Saturday’s win marked the 11th-ranked win of the season for the Horns. 

Texas will face off against No. 15 Indiana in the third round of the NCAA Tournament with the game time and date TBD. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Highlighted by nine top 10 finishes, Austin Peay State University’s track and field team concluded its first meet of the 2025-26 indoor season at Vanderbilt’s Winter Commodore Challenge, Saturday, at the David Williams II Recreation & Wellness Center.

Saturday’s events began with throws, as Emma Tucker highlighted Austin Peay’s performances in the weight throw with a sixth-place finish. The mark was Tucker’s first of two top 10 marks, as she also went on to finish eighth in the shot put later in the afternoon. Freshman China Giaimo paced the Govs in the shot put, recording an 11.98-meter toss in her first collegiate meet.

Madelyn Kocik also finished the day with a pair of top 10 performances, beginning with an eighth-place finish in the long jump with a 5.61-meter leap – her best mark since finishing second at the 2025 Atlantic Sun Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. A Portland, Texas native, Kocik later went on to finish fifth in the triple jump with an 11.97-meter mark – the second-best mark of her career and her longest jump since recording a 12.12-meter jump last season at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Challenge (Jan. 11).

Three Governors competed in the 600-meter for Austin Peay with all three finishing in the top 10. Sophomore Taylin Segree paced the trio with a 1:33.28 time and fifth-place finish, while Alexis Arnett (1:34.03) and Mia McGee (1:34.57) finished seventh and 10th, respectively. It was the first time that any of the Govs had competed in the 600 in their collegiate career.

Wrapping up the Govs’ events for the day, Taylah Upshaw placed fourth in the 1,000-meter, setting a personal best with a time of 3:01.03.

Up Next

Austin Peay returns to action in mid-January when it returns to Nashville to the Vanderbilt Invitational, Jan. 16-17, at the David Williams II Recreation & Wellness Center

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