2005 NCAA Division I Championships - BRACKET Announcement

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Committee
announced today the 64-team field for the 2005 NCAA Division I Women's
Volleyball Championship. Thirty-one conferences were awarded automatic
qualification, and the remaining 33 slots were filled with at-large
selections to complete the bracket.

The top 16 teams were seeded nationally and placed within four regions.
The teams tabbed as the top four seeds were University of Nebraska,
Lincoln; Pennsylvania State University; University of Washington; and
University of Arizona.

Team pairings were determined by geographical proximity, with the
exception that teams from the same conference were not paired during
the first and second rounds.

The Big 12 Conference led all conferences with seven teams selected.
Three conferences landed six teams including the Big Ten Conference,
Pacific-10 Conference and Southeastern Conference. Three teams, Penn
State, Stanford University and University of California, Santa Barbara,
have earned bids to all 25 championships. Four teams are making their
initial appearances in the tournament: State University of New York at
Binghamton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Jacksonville State
University and University of Alabama, Tusacaloosa.

In the 25-year history of the championship, nine schools have been
crowned champion, eight of which are in this year's bracket, including
the defending champion Stanford.

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 and 2000), University of Southern
California (1981, 2002, 03), Penn State (1999) and University of Texas
at Austin (1988).

First- and second-round matches will be played at 16 campus sites. A
list of the first-round match-ups follows.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Nebraska
Nebraska (28-1) vs. Alabama A&M (15-11)
American (25-9) vs. Duke (23-7)

December 2-3 at UCLA
UCLA (18-10) vs. Kansas (15-14)
Long Beach State (25-6) vs. San Diego (22-5)

December 2-3 at Louisville
Louisville (29-2) vs. Western Kentucky (31-2)
Kentucky (17-11) vs. Maryland (27-4)

December 1-2 at Florida
Kansas State (20-10) vs. Florida A&M (22-5)
Florida Atlantic (29-2) vs. Florida (30-2)

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Stanford
Stanford (25-5) vs. Nevada (18-12)
Santa Clara (23-4) vs. Sacramento State (26-8)

December 2-3 at Southern California
Pepperdine (17-11) vs. Brigham Young (25-3)
UC Santa Barbara (21-8) vs. Southern California (16-10)

December 2-3 at Ohio State
Ohio State (21-8) vs. Marshall (26-5)
Ohio (31-2) vs. Alabama (23-10)

December 2-3 at Utah
Utah (22-8) vs. Loyola Marymount (19-10)
Utah State (21-12) vs. Arizona (22-5)

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Colorado State
Washington (26-1) vs. Siena (20-11)
Colorado (15-12) vs. Colorado State (20-8)

December 2-3 at North Carolina
Purdue (23-8) vs. Virginia Commonwealth (22-11)
College of Charleston (30-1) vs. North Carolina (23-9)

December 2-3 at Wisconsin
Wisconsin (23-6) vs. Loyola (Illinois) (13-17)
Valparaiso (27-7) vs. California (18-10)

December 1-2 at Notre Dame
Northwestern (19-11) vs. Texas A&M (16-13)
Dayton (24-10) vs. Notre Dame (28-3)

STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Texas
Hawaii (25-6) vs. Texas State (17-14)
Texas (23-4) vs. LSU (21-7)

December 2-3 at Missouri
Arkansas (20-11) vs. St. Mary's (California) (19-9)
Missouri State (24-8) vs. Missouri (22-4)

December 2-3 at Tennessee
Minnesota (24-7) vs. Winthrop (28-5)
Jacksonville State (19-10) vs. Tennessee (21-8)

December 2-3 at Penn State
Cornell (19-5) vs. Long Island (25-13)
Binghamton (20-11) vs. Penn State (29-2)

Teams winning both matches will move on to regional play December 9 and
10. The pre-determined regional sites are Palo Alto, California; Omaha,
Nebraska; State College, Pennsylvania; and College Station, Texas. The
regional winners will advance to the semifinals and final hosted by
University of Texas at San Antonio at the Alamodone in San Antonio,
Texas, on December 15 and 17.


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