Nature is healing. Texas is winning volleyball matches again.

The Longhorns’ three-match losing streak that felt like an aberration? It’s now been offset with a three-match winning streak, all on the road no less.

A solid win at Mississippi State followed by three-set weekend sweeps of Auburn and Alabama put a spring in coach Jerritt Elliott’s step again as Texas (15-6, 10-3 SEC) is marching toward the postseason.

And what’s more impressive, Madisen Skinner is starting to crank it up. Skinner had a season-high 25 kills against MSU and followed that with an eye-popping 23 against Auburn.

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Skinner had 14 kills against Alabama, but Jenna Wenaas slammed home 10 kills of her own as the Horns hit .357 as a team.

Skinner simply didn't look like her normal All-American self as Texas dropped five-set matches to Texas A&M, Missouri and Oklahoma. 

Elliott has gone away from the 6-2 system rotation that was working for a while — until it wasn’t — and back to the 5-1. These last three matches, Elliott is leaning on setter Averi Carlson, the Baylor transfer, to carry Texas through. Carlson had 45, 41 and 35 assists in the last three matches, all of which the Horns cruised to victory.

With these three wins, Texas has managed to stay in the hunt for the regular-season title, right alongside Kentucky and Florida. Hosting first- and second-round NCAA tournament games are still possible, but the Horns have almost no margin for error.

Texas has one final road game during the regular season: a trip to Oklahoma on Friday. It’s the return match after the Sooners clipped the Horns in a five-set thriller on Nov. 3. That was OU’s first win in the series in a decade.

Then, Texas closes out the regular season with home matches against Tennessee (Nov. 27) and Ole Miss (Nov. 30).