NCAA Tournament Second Round

Aggies Record (24-4)
Opponent: tcu (21-10)
RPI: 20
Date: December 6th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Beautiful Reed Arena - College Station, Texas
Streaming: ESPN+
Tickets: https://12thmanfoundation.evenue.net/event/VB25/NCAA2?RSRC=SIDEARM&RDAT=sgl
Stats: https://12thman.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary

Game Preview
The dance continues… Texas A&M advanced to the round of 32 in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament after a sweep of Campbell. The Aggies historic season continues on at 24-4 and will have one match standing in front of it and a return trip to the sweet sixteen.

Tomorrow night our Texas A&M Aggie Volleyball team will host TCU with a trip to the sweet sixteen on the line. The 3 seeded Aggies will face the 6 seed horned frogs and the Aggies will not only have the next weekend in mind but they will be seeking revenge after an early September loss in Fort Worth.

That match was a 5 set match that went TCU's way. It was an uncharacteristic performance that saw us struggle in serve receive and struggle defensively to contest TCU's up tempo and athletics pins. It was a rough day for Lednicky as she only had 14 kills in that 5 set match. We had 10 service errors as well to only 3 aces. TCU's best player (Hendrix) didn't have a good match either as she only had 10 kills. It was their freshman Samara Coleman who we couldn't slow down. They also really set the middles that match. It should be noted that game was played on a back to back road game for us in our 7th straight match away from Reed.

However, there's been so much volleyball played since then. The Aggies after that loss won 17 of their next 18 matches. TCU rose all the way to the top ten in the rankings, but slid down after an up and down conference season that saw them drop matches against weaker teams. They went 10-8 in conference play.

Today TCU swept Stephen F Austin, but after a dominant first set SFA pushed them to a 26-24 and 25-20 second and third set. It's an interesting note that Samara Coleman didn't play tonight against SFA and after our match she only got to double digit kills twice all season and in no matches since September. They've relied heavily on Even Hendrix. In their round 1 match up she had 19 kills. TCU held SFA to a .111 hitting clip.

As for us, we're a much different team than we were in September. The Lednicky we all know will be playing tomorrow and we'll be much better prepared for this match. I do want to see us come out much more motivated and control the match right out of the gate. If our defense rises up to the challenge I think we'll get our revenge and win this easily. We need to spread the ball around and it all starts with serve receive. With some great first touches and great setting, we can open up the TCU defense and get some lanes to hit into.

I think us playing them earlier will benefit our staff and our team. On a quick turnaround I think we'll be ready. I want to see some tough served and I want to see a block party in Reed Arena. Our fans have been amazing all year and tomorrow is the last party at Reed. You can make a difference. One thing missing in that first match was THE 12TH MAN. We earned the right to host and they'll have to walk into Reed Arena and take that sweet sixteen birth away from us… good luck doing that. BTHO tcu!!!

Stat Leaders - tcu (per set)
Kills
Evan Hendrix - 4.46
Becca Kelley - 2.93
Lauren Murphy - 1.93

Assists
Ella Foti - 5.49
Rosemary Archer - 4.85

Aces
Lauren Murphy - 0.25 (wow)
Samara Coleman - 0.23
Ella Foti - 0.21

Blocks
Sarah Sylvester - 1.26
Lauren Murphy - 0.79
Alexis Roberson - 0.70

Digs
Alice Volpe - 3.92
Evan Hendrix - 2.80
Ella Foti - 2.57

Stat Leaders - Texas A&M (per set)
Kills
Logan Lednicky - 4.01
Kyndal Stowers - 3.31
Emily Hellmuth - 2.73

Assists
Maddie Waak - 11.45

Aces
Ifenna Cos-Okpalla - 0.35
Maddie Waak - 0.27
Kyndal Stowers - 0.19

Blocks
Ifenna Cos-Okpalla - 1.68
Logan Lednicky - 0.85
Morgan Perkins - 0.78

Digs
Ava Underwood - 2.84
Logan Lednicky - 2.80
Kyndal Stowers - 2.18

Texas A&M Roster: https://12thman.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster

Texas A&M Stats: https://12thman.com/sports/womens-volleyball/stats/2025

Texas A&M Schedule: https://12thman.com/sports/womens-volleyball/schedule

TCU Roster: https://gofrogs.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster

TCU Stats: https://gofrogs.com/sports/womens-volleyball/stats/2025

TCU Schedule: https://gofrogs.com/sports/womens-volleyball/schedule

Drop a star for your predicted result

TEXAS A&M 3-2

tcu 3-2

tcu 3-1

tcu 3-0

Press release after last night's match:

https://12thman.com/news/2025/12/5/volleyball-no-3-aggies-sweep-campbell-to-advance-to-ncaa-tournament-second-round

Includes these game notes

-- Logan Lednicky climbed to No. 4 on Texas A&M's kill list after recording her 1,587th of her career.

-- Ifenna Cos-Okpalla recorded her 165th block of the year which is the most in a single season since 1999.

-- Emily Hellmuth broke the program record for hitting percentage in a postseason three-set match (minimum 10 kills) at .667 percent on the day.

-- The Aggies broke the postseason program record for team hitting percentage in a three-set match during the rally-scoring era with a .417 clip.

-- The aggies broke their postseason attendance record with 5,830 fans in the stands.

Good for them !!

I thought the attendence would be higher, especially with free admission for students, but it will probably be higher vs ranked and seeded TCU. Especially after the close early-season five-set loss to them.

At the 12th Man tailgate yesterday evening they said they would be set up again today. Hope so. They had my favorite beer.

I'm so sad. will miss tonight's game as well. I've been to every game this season and missing these last two... sigh.

I posted the 2 tix on the exchange forum if anyone is interested.

Anchorhold said:

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We need miss rev at the game to fulfill the prophecy of the collective one-eyed, sawed off, flyin' purple-people eater.

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Thank you for this!!

Gig'em Aggies BTHO TCU!

Is there any way someone might put this on YouTube?

SEC Network ridiculously showing College Football Final rolling every hour.

isn't an SEC game. It's an NCAA game and looks like all games this weekend are on ESPN+

It's time… BTHO tcu

How does the crowd tonight compare to last night? More in attendance?

Less but not a ton 10-15% maybe

KYNDAL STOWERS ACE

CROWD IS LOUD

IFENNA ACE

they are playing monster block for both teams?

Elko front row

AggieDO97 said:

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How does the crowd tonight compare to last night? More in attendance?

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About the same.

Come on Aggies!

TCU 10-8