The matches are part of a larger Big Ten/SEC challenge in which all 18 Big Ten teams and all 16 SEC teams will square off beginning Tuesday, Sept. 1 and culminating with the event at Wrigley Field. As part of the Husker volleyball team’s trip to Chicago, Nebraska will also face DePaul at Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Friday, Sept. 4. Tickets for the match at Wrigley Field will go on sale to Husker Volleyball season ticket holders on April 6 at 10 a.m., and to the general public on April 9 at 10 a.m. Ticket information for the Wrigley Field match can be found at www.cubs.com/bigtenvolleyball .

The Huskers begin their spring schedule on Saturday, April 11 at 1 p.m. as Nebraska faces Iowa State at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. Pregame coverage will begin at 12:30 p.m. on B-107.3.

Tickets will go on sale to the public March 26 at Chadron State’s Dan Beebe Stadium, including a limited number of courtside seats for $50, with the rest of the Chicoine Center in Chadron sold on a general-admission basis at $30 per seat. Fans must buy in person and are limited to four tickets per person.

Nebraska has played spring matches in North Platte, Scottsbluff, Grand Island, Norfolk, Wayne, Ogallala, Kearney, McCook, Central City and Ord since 2007. The Huskers have also announced spring matches against Iowa State on April 11 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., and against Creighton on April 17 at D.J. Sokol Arena in Omaha.

Sioux Falls is the hometown of Nebraska senior setter Bergen Reilly. The Huskers can schedule one more spring match. The match will be broadcast on B-107.3.

Nebraska last year played a spring match at home against Kansas, then a match against South Dakota State in Ord, Neb. The Huskers typically play one match in rural, out-state Nebraska, though that match has not yet been announced yet.

The match at the Bluejays will be broadcast on B-107.3.

Reilly set the Huskers to a school-record .351 hitting percentage, as the Big Red concluded their season with a 33-1 overall record and 20-0 mark in Big Ten play en route to a third straight conference title.

Reilly averaged 10.47 assists per set and 2.70 digs per set. She also totaled 73 kills, 67 blocks and 19 aces.

Reilly was named Big Ten Player of the Year, as well as Big Ten Setter of the Year and All-Big Ten First Team for the third time. NU’s .351 hitting percentage ranks first nationally and is the best hitting percentage by a Big Ten team since 2009 Penn State.

Kyndal Stowers led Texas A&M with 25 kills on .327 hitting. Logan Lednicky tallied 24 and six blocks. Emily Hellmuth registered 13. Morgan Perkins had a team-leading nine blocks. Nebraska was led by Harper Murray’s 25 kills. Rebekah Allick added 15. The Aggies outhit the Huskers, .275-.270, outblocked them 17-8, outserved them nine aces to eight.

Set one started as so many have for Nebraska this season, with a decisive early surge. The Huskers built an early 10-3 lead. But then Texas A&M started chipping away, winning five of the next six rallies to get back into the set, cutting Nebraska’s lead to 11-8. The Huskers led 15-10 before the Aggies ran 10 straight points with Ifenna Cos-Okpalla serving. Cos-Okpalla served for two aces in the last three rallies of the run. Nebraska won five of the next six rallies to slice the Aggies’ lead to 21-20, but A&M was able to stem the tide. The teams traded points until the Aggies won the set with back-to-back points.

In the second set, the Huskers won the first point before Texas A&M scored the next four. The Aggies held the lead until Nebraska scored four straight points with Murray serving to take an 8-6 lead. A&M tied the set at nine and at 10. Then after a Husker point, Texas A&M ran four straight points to build a 14-11 lead. The Aggies scored three of the next four to open the advantage to 17-13. The Huskers pulled to within two twice, but got no closer and Lednicky notched a kill to finish the second set.

The third set began with another Husker surge, as Nebraska took a 7-4 lead early on. A three-point NU surge opened the lead to 10-5, before Texas A&M answered, scoring four straight points to cut the NU lead to 10-9. The Aggies were able to pull within one four separate times, but were never able to equal Nebraska. The Huskers pushed the set to the brink by winning four of the next five points, opening a 24-19 lead. A&M fought off one set point, but Murray terminated to clinch set three for Nebraska.

Texas A&M got off to the stronger start in the fourth set, building a 5-2 lead. The Huskers won five of the next seven points to even the set at seven. The Aggies ran four straight points to build an 11-7 lead. Texas A&M took five of six points in a stretch to open the lead to 18-11 before Nebraska won three straight points to shrink the A&M lead to 18-14. After a Lednicky kill, the Huskers ran five straight points to tie the set at 19. The teams traded points to tie the set at 20. The set was tied at 21, then Murray’s attack went out-of-bounds to give the Aggies a 22-21. Murray rapidly atoned with a kill to tie the set at 22. Manaia Ogbechie followed a kill to give Nebraska the 23-22 lead, but a Murray attack was blocked by A&M to tie the set at 23. Virginia Adriano’s kill brought up set point for Nebraska, but Lednicky terminated again to tie the set at 24. A Sigler tip found floor to give the Huskers a 25-24 lead, but Lednicky again scored to even the set at 25. Reilly scored on a setter dump to make it 26-25 NU, but Ogbechie, making her first serve of the season, served out of bounds. A&M returned the favor with a service error to put Nebraska ahead, 27-26. A Stowers kill evened the set at 27, but Allick again gave Nebraska the lead on a slide, 28-27. On the fifth set point for the Huskers in the fourth, Nebraska was called for a net violation to tie the set at 28. Allick blocked the next Aggie attack to give NU its sixth set point, but Murray’s attack was blocked to tie the set at 29. After a wild shot landed for a Nebraska point, Texas A&M won the joust at the net to tie the set at 30. An Ogbechie kill gave NU its seventh set point chance, but Lednicky’s kill tied the set at 31. A Husker attack error gave the Aggies their first set point chance, but Lednicky served into the net to tie the set at 32. Ogbechie served long to give A&M a 33-32 lead, but the Aggies’ service error tied the fourth at 33. Stowers tipped for a kill to give the Aggies their third match point chance, but Allick terminated on a slide to tie the set at 34. A Texas A&M attack error gave Nebraska its eighth set point, but Stowers got the kill to tie the set at 35. Murray snuck a roll shot through the Aggies’ defense to give NU a 36-35 lead, and Adriano hammered a shot off the A&M block to win set four.

Set five started close, with the set tied at one, two and three. A three-point run by Texas A&M built a 5-3 lead. After back-to-back Nebraska points tied the set at five, the Aggies scored five of the next six points to build a 10-6 lead. After a Texas A&M service error, two more Aggies points pushed the lead to 12-7. Nebraska scored five of the next six to cut A&M’s lead to 13-12. A Lednicky kill brought the Aggies to match point, but a Murray roll shot cut A&M’s lead to 14-13. Lednicky terminated to send the Aggies to the national semifinals.

The loss brings to a shocking end what had been one of the most dominant seasons in Nebraska athletics history, in which the Huskers lost just one set in Big Ten play and rolled to 33 straight wins to start the season. The No. 1 national seed in the NCAA bracket, the Huskers were picked by many to win the national championship, but fell short of the title.

While the Aggies’ win over Louisville was hotly contested, the Huskers’ win over Kansas was not. The Jayhawks never led in any of the three sets and only twice had the score tied in a set: in both the second and the third sets, 1-1. Nebraska won the next point in both sets and dominated from there.

The Huskers’ middle blockers set the pace for NU. Rebekah Allick and Andi Jackson both notched nine kills each. Neither committed an error. Allick hit a perfect 1.000 for the match, nine kills on nine attacks, while Jackson was nine-for-15, hitting .600 for the match while not committing an error. Jackson had five blocks while Allick had three. Harper Murray added seven kills and a team-leading 10 digs. Bergen Reilly, playing through an illness, registered 30 set assists, while Olivia Mauch notched three service aces. Three Kansas players had six kills each to lead their efforts. Nebraska outhit KU, .450-.029, outblocked it 10-1 and outserved it six aces to one.

The tone was set early. After the start of the match was delayed nearly an hour by Louisville vs. Texas A&M going five sets, the Huskers bolted out of the gate. Nebraska took a 4-0 lead on a kill from Allick and two blocks from Jackson. After a Jayhawks sideout, the Huskers ran six straight points to balloon the lead to 10-1. Included in the run were two aces by Mauch. From there, Kansas drew no closer than to within seven points of the Huskers for the set.

Nebraska also got things going quickly in the second set. After the teams traded points on the first two rallies, the Huskers notched three in a row to take a 4-1 lead. After two straight Jayhawks points, Nebraska scored three more in a row to lead, 7-3. The Huskers kept a two-point cushion between themselves and KU before taking control of the second set with a five-point run keyed by two kills and a block by Allick to push the advantage to 14-7. After back-to-back Kansas points, the Huskers buried the Jayhawks with six straight points with Teraya Sigler serving to open a 20-9 lead. After back-to-back KU points, Nebraska finished off Kansas with a five-point run, punctuated with a Laney Choboy ace.

Set three started similarly, with the Huskers opening leads of 5-1 and 8-2. Nebraska gradually pulled away, removing all doubt of a sweep with a four-point run to lead 20-9. The Jayhawks scored three of the next four points before another four-point run by the Huskers clinched the sweep.

Nebraska now advances to the regional final, trying to advance to the national semifinals for the third straight year. The Huskers will take on Texas A&M Sunday, with pregame coverage starting at 1 p.m. and first serve at 2 p.m. at John Cook Arena. The match can be heard on KLIN and B-107.3.