Later Sunday night time, search for our Zoom with, amongst others, the chair of NCAA Division I committee, Danielle Josette of Marquette; Nebraska coach John Cook dinner, whose Huskers performed 17 of the 64 groups within the subject; Stanford junior exterior Elia Rubin, Pitt junior center Bre Kelley; Penn State coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley; and Minnesota coach Keegan Cook dinner, whose Gophers performed 13 of the groups on the bracket.
Two groups every from the ACC and Huge Ten grabbed the coveted prime 4 spots within the 2024 NCAA Event bracket.
ACC co-champion Pittsburgh (No. 1 total, 29-1) Huge Ten co-champion Nebraska (29-2), Huge Ten co-champion Penn State (29-2) and Louisville, second within the ACC (25-5), are the No. 1 seeds.
The No. 2 seeds went to Stanford (25-4), which tied Louisville for second within the ACC and is within the Louisville regional; SMU (24-7) which completed fourth within the ACC, two video games behind Stanford and is within the Pitt regional; Huge East-champion Creighton (29-2), which has gained 22 in a row and is within the Penn State regional; and Wisconsin (23-6), which completed third within the Huge Ten and is within the Nebraska regional.
The event begins Thursday with first-round matches additionally on Friday.
Each first-round match will probably be on ESPN+. ESPN may also proceed its unbelievable The Fifth Set wraparound present with Sam Gore because the full-time host. Will probably be on ESPN+ beginning at 4 p.m. Japanese Thursday and switches to ESPNU at 7 p.m. Paul Sunderland and Jennifer Hoffman will be a part of Gore and when the ref requires a sub, Nicole Branagh and Anne Marie Anderson will take their spots.
Pittsburgh, which gained the ACC, opens with Morehead State of the OVC. Morehead was the No. 4 seed within the Ohio Valley Convention Championship and misplaced the title match, however superior as a result of Lindenwood is ineligible to play within the event as a result of it’s in transition from Division II. The Pitt-Morehead State winner performs the UTEP-Oklahoma winner.
Nebraska performs SWAC-champion Florida A&M with the winner getting the winner of Miami, an at-large from the ACC, and Summit at-large South Dakota State.
Penn State performs MEAC-champion Delaware State. The winner performs the winner of Ivy League-champion Yale and North Carolina, an at-large from the ACC.
Louisville, coming off back-to-back losses to Pitt and Stanford to finish the common season, performs NEC winner Chicago State and the winner faces the winner of Missouri Valley Convention-champion Northern Iowa, which has gained 20 in a row, in opposition to Illinois, an at-large from the Huge Ten.
Of the so-called on-the-bubble groups, Washington and Illinois from the Huge Ten obtained in and so did Ole Miss of the SEC. Arizona of the Huge 12. Rice of the American Athletic and Wright State of the Horizon League didn’t.
In line with the ESPN choice present, the final 4 in had been NC State, South Dakota State, UTEP and Washington, and the final 4 out had been Arizona, Pepperdine, Rice and San Diego.
Convention breakdown
The next leagues obtained multiple group in:
ACC (9): Pitt, Stanford, Louisville, SMU, North Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State
Huge Ten (9): Nebraska, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Oregon, USC, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington
SEC (9): Kentucky, Texas, Florida, Missouri, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Ole Miss, South Carolina
Huge 12 (6): Arizona State, Kansas, Utah, Baylor, TCU, BYU
Simply 4 conferences exterior the massive 4 of the ACC, Huge 12, Huge Ten and SEC obtained multiple group in, and just one group every.
Atlantic 10: Loyola Chicago, Dayton
Huge East: Creighton, Marquette
Convention USA: Western Kentucky, UTEP
Summit League: South Dakota, South Dakota State
Price noting
— Streaking: Western Kentucky, which performs Minnesota within the Pitt regional, has gained a nation-best 24 in a row.
— Lone Star State: There are eight groups from Texas on the bracket, three groups from Texas alone in Austin, together with the Longhorns, who play Texas A&M-Corpus Christi with the winner getting the winner of UT Arlington, which has gained 20 in a row, vs. the Huge Ten’s USC. Different Texas groups within the subject are SMU, Solar Belt-champion Texas State, SEC at-large Texas A&M, and Huge 12 at-larges Baylor and TCU.
— 2022 USA Volleyball U21: Each single participant on that group that gained the Pan Am Cup, coached by Pitt’s Dan Fisher, is within the event: Nebraska’s Lexi Rodriguez, Rebekah Allick and Merritt Beason; Purdue’s Chloe Chicoine and Raven Colvin; Pitt’s Rachel Fairbanks and Bre Kelley; Stanford’s Elia Rubin,;Minnesota’s Mckenna Wucherer; Creighton’s Norah Sis; Florida’s Alexis Stucky; and Devin Kahahawai of Texas.
— Sisters: We could miss some at first look, however Texas A&M-Corpus Christi consists of freshman Virginia Van Der Werff. Faculty of Charleston has one in all her older sisters in junior Olivia Mae Van Der Werff, and Utah has fifth-year Amelia Van Der Werff. All of them performed at Lansing Excessive Faculty in Kansas. There may also be two Klikas within the NCAA Event, Pitt’s Emily and Wofford’s Laney; and two Reillys in Nebraska’s Bergen and Raegen of Illinois; two Shaffmastrers, Melani of Minnesota and Mabrey of North Carolina; two Petersons, Jadyn of Northern Iowa and Payton of Louisville; and two Starcks, each on Penn State, freshman Izzy and senior Anjelina.
Historical past
Texas swept Nebraska in 2023, giving the Longhorns back-to-back titles. Texas defeated Wisconsin 4 within the semifinals. Pittsburgh obtained swept by Nebraska because the Panthers made their third nationwide semifinal look in a row.
Simply 12 packages have gained because the NCAA started holding girls’s volleyball championships in 1981: Stanford (9 instances), Penn State (7), Nebraska (5), UCLA (4), Hawai’i (3), Lengthy Seaside State (3), USC (3), Texas (4), Pacific (2), Kentucky (1), Wisconsin (1) and Washington (1).
Kentucky of the SEC was the one group exterior of the Huge Ten or Pac-12 to win the crown since Texas of the Huge 12 gained in 2012 when the Wildcats gained within the spring of 2021.
The NCAA committee
The ten-member committee.
The chair is Danielle Josette, the Govt Affiliate Director of Athletics Marquette College. Josetti, who graduated from Creighton and obtained a grasp’s at Marquette, was a junior-college softball standout.
The 2 East members are Christian Bray, Senior Ladies’s Administrator at Harvard, and Kathy Litzau, SWA/Senior Affiliate AD at Wisconsin.
The South reps are Joeleen Akin, SWA at Georgia Tech, and Natasha Oakes, the SWA/Deputy AD at West Virginia.
The Southeast members are Cari Rosiek, SWA Affiliate AD at Coastal Carolina, and Jennifer Saxon, SWA/Govt Affiliate AD at Mississippi.
The West members are Stacy Kosciak, SWA/Deputy AD at Bowling Inexperienced, and Laura Alexander, SWA/Senior Affiliate AD at San Jose State.
The 2 Midwest members are Josetti and Julie Manning, SWA/Deputy AD at Minnesota.
