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BYU men's volleyball: Cougars overcome Santa Barbara challenge to advance to the MPSF championship match

The Cougars were pushed to the brink by a very good Gaucho team before coming together in the fifth and final set in Thursday's thrilling MPSF semifinal match.

“They gave us all we could handle, and congrats to them for doing that. But fortunately things came through at the end.”

PROVO — Things were bound to get tougher for the BYU men's volleyball team the further it got into the postseason, and such was the case during Thursday's MPSF semifinal match against Santa Barbara. The Gauchos fought the Cougars to the bitter end, with the Cougars still managing a thrilling win of three sets to two (25-18, 25-22, 23-25, 24-26, 15-12.