Both WAC Champion Hawai`i and New Mexico State earned spots in the 2007 NCAA Volleyball Tournament field. Both teams will play on Nov. 30. The Rainbow Wahine will travel to Louisville, Ky. to face Tennessee State at 4:00 p.m. in the first round. Hawai`i earned the No. 11 seed in the field. New Mexico State will travel to Austin, Texas to take on LSU at 6:00 p.m. in the first round.
Click Here for the NCAA Volleyball BracketHawai`i was awarded the No. 11 seed after winning the automatic NCAA bid at the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. UH is making its 26th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and their 15th in a row. This is the fourth-straight season and fifth in the last seven years where the Rainbow Wahine earned a top 16 seed but will not host the first and second rounds. Hawai`i has advanced to the NCAA Regionals in each of the last nine tournaments.
Tennessee State (20-13) qualified for the NCAA Tournament by winning the Ohio Valley Conference. Host Louisville (22-7) will face Middle Tennessee (33-2) in the other first round match in the subregional at 7:00 p.m. The winners of the two matches will play at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1.
The Aggies faced No. 4 Texas earlier this season, losing 3-0. The Longhorns were an automatic qualifier from the Big 12 Conference and will take on Texas State, the automatic qualifier out of the Southland Conference, in the second match on Friday at 6:00 p.m. If NMSU defeats the Tigers, they will play the winner of the Texas-Texas State match on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 6:30 p.m.
In the 26-year history of the championship, ten schools have been crowned champion, nine of which are in this year’s bracket, including the defending champion Nebraska.
Additional past winners making the field are Stanford (1992, 94, 96, 97, 2001, 04), University of Hawaii, Manoa (1982, 83, 87), Long Beach State University (1989, 93, 98), University of California, Los Angeles (1984, 90, 91), Nebraska (1995, 2000, and 2006), University of Southern California (1981, 2002, 03), Penn State (1999), Texas (1988) and University of Washington (2005).
First- and second-round matches will be played at 16 campus sites. A list of the first-round match-ups follows.
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA REGIONAL
November 30 and December 1 at Stanford, California
*No. 1 Stanford (27-2) vs. Santa Clara (19-11)
Minnesota (18-12) vs. Sacramento St. (28-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Athens, Ohio
Purdue (18-13) vs. *Ohio (26-5)
Xavier (24-10) vs. No. 16 Cal Poly (21-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Manhattan, Kansas
*No. 9 Kansas St. (22-8) vs. Tulsa (27-8)
Oregon (20-10) vs. Missouri St. (25-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Clemson, South Carolina
Alabama (15-14) vs. *Clemson (28-3)
Alabama A&M (15-9) vs. No. 8 UCLA (20-10)
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA REGIONAL
November 30 and December 1 at Los Angeles, California
*No. 5 USC (25-4) vs. Pepperdine (18-10)
Long Beach St. (25-6) vs. UNLV (24-5)
November 30 and December 1 at Queens, New York
Princeton (22-3) vs. Delaware (30-4)
Long Island (23-13) vs. *No. 12 St. John’s (N.Y.) (31-3)
November 29 and 30 at Gainesville, Florida
*No. 13 Florida (27-2) vs. Col. of Charleston (26-7)
Florida A&M (18-7) vs. Oklahoma (21-9)
November 30 and December 1 at Austin, Texas
New Mexico St. (26-5) vs. LSU (24-7)
Texas St. (21-11) vs. *No. 4 Texas (24-3)
UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL
November 30 and December 1 at University Park, Pennsylvania
*No. 3 Penn St. (28-2) vs. Siena (24-7)
Albany (N.Y.) (23-9) vs. Cleveland St. (23-8)
November 30 and December 1 at Ann Arbor, Michigan
*Michigan (22-10) vs. Miami (Ohio) (20-10)
Illinois St. (21-11) vs. No. 14 Colorado St. (22-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Louisville, Kentucky
No. 11 Hawaii (26-5) vs. Tennessee St. (20-13)
Middle Tenn. (33-2) vs. *Louisville (22-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Seattle, Washington
BYU (21-7) vs. Mississippi (25-7)
Missouri (17-12) vs. *No. 6 Washington (26-3)
MADISON, WISCONSIN REGIONAL
November 30 and December 1 at Madison, Wisconsin
*No. 7 Wisconsin (25-4) vs. Northern Iowa (22-10)
Iowa St. (17-13) vs. San Diego (21-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Durham, North Carolina
*Duke (24-6) vs. American (26-7)
Liberty (27-8) vs. No. 10 California (22-7)
November 30 and December 1 at Dayton, Ohio
*No. 15 Dayton (32-1) vs. Lipscomb (20-11)
Kentucky (22-9) vs. Michigan St. (19-13)
November 30 and December 1 at Lincoln, Nebraska
Wichita St. (26-5) vs. Western Ky. (27-8)
South Dakota St. (25-10) vs. *No. 2 Nebraska (27-1)