College volleyball ” Cougars seeded at No. 13.
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UNCW (24-7) earned the No. 3 seed in the CAA Championship Tournament and eventually earned a spot in its first title match since 1988.
The victor of the showdown between the Bobcats and the Cougars will square off with the victor of Friday’s 7 p.m. ET tilt between Western Kentucky (31-3) and Arizona (19-13) on Saturday (Dec. 5) in a 9 p.m. ET second-round matchup. The victor will take on the victor of the Gophers (26-4) and Jackson State (15-21), which will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
The victor of the Marquette/Northern Iowa match will advance to the second round on Friday.
Stanford is 22-6 overall this season and went 16-4 in Pac-12 Conference play. The pre-determined regional sites are Austin, Texas, Des Moines, Iowa, Lexington, Ky., and San Diego, Calif. All regional semifinal matches will be shown on ESPN3.
The Aggies will take on No. 8 Stanford on the Cardinal’s home floor in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night in Palo Alto, Calif. The NCAA Tournament field was announced Sunday night. It is Texas A&M Corpus Christi’s first ever appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Huskers will face Harvard, the Ivy League Champions, before taking on the victor of the Kansas State-Wichita State match. This time, they possess a deep, athletic and relatively young roster, a group that dropped its only two matches to Big 12 champion Texas. “We lost to them last year, but we’re a year older and we feel we have the capabilities to play with any conference”. MI defeated the Rutgers Scarlet Knights by a 3-1 score in Big Ten Conference play on October 14, while Santa Clara defeated Rutgers early in the season by a 3-0 score (Aug. 29). The NCAA Tournament begins on Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 3-5. First and second rounds will be broadcast across the ESPN Family of Networks, while regional semifinals will be telecast on ESPN3/ESPNU and regional finals available on ESPNU.
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The at-large bid is UNI’s third in the history of a program that still hasn’t gone three consecutive seasons without a trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1991.
