NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship
The NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship was, before 2012, the only tournament that determined the NCAA championship of American college men's volleyball. It remains as the NCAA's top-level men's volleyball championship, following the 2012 establishment of a Division III championship.
Schools from the Pacific Coast region have dominated this sport, in particular UCLA. Al Scates, the coach at UCLA, has won more NCAA Titles (19) than any other coach. Pepperdine has the second most titles with 5
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Competition structure [edit]
The competition structure of men's volleyball is dramatically different from that of most sports sponsored by the NCAA. In most sports, teams are divided into three divisions:
- Division I, generally consisting of large universities that devote the most resources to athletics; these schools offer substantial numbers of athletic scholarships to attract team members (with a few voluntary exceptions, most notably the Ivy League).
- Division II, generally consisting of smaller institutions; these schools are also allowed to offer athletic scholarships, but in substantially smaller numbers.
- Division III, generally consisting of smaller schools and a few large institutions that prefer to focus on academics; schools in this group are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships
Before the 2011–12 school year (2012 championship), men's volleyball did not have an official divisional structure; even now, that structure is truncated. The National Collegiate Championship remains as the NCAA's top-level championship, but Division III members now have their own championship, officially known as the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship.
With the introduction of an official Division III championship, schools in that division are no longer eligible for the National Collegiate Championship. The only exception is Rutgers–Newark, whose men's volleyball program is a grandfathered scholarship program, and can compete for the National Collegiate Championship.
This structure differs from that of the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship, in which separate tournaments are conducted for all three divisions, mainly because there are far more NCAA member schools offering women's volleyball than the men's game. All schools that sponsor men's volleyball and are members of either Division I or II, plus Rutgers–Newark, are allowed to offer financial aid for the sport that is equivalent to a maximum of 4.5 full scholarships.
Before the creation of the NCAA Division III championship in 2012, an unofficial men's volleyball championship tournament was conducted that was open only to Division III men's volleyball programs. For sponsorship reasons, it was known as the "Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship Tournament (Final Four)". Though it never occurred, a NCAA Division III school could, before 2012, qualify for the at-large bid to the National Collegiate Championship. Only NCAA Division III teams from the EIVA were able to earn an automatic bid.
There are three general regions for men's volleyball: "West", "Mid-West", and "East". The three major conferences that currently represent these regions are the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA), and Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA). The other conferences include Conference Carolinas, New England Collegiate Conference,[1] the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Teams from the ECAC are members of the NECVA. Members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), a separate athletics governing body whose members are primarily smaller institutions, regularly play matches against NCAA teams.
Because of the historic lack of an official divisional structure in men's volleyball, the three major conferences have member schools that normally participate in all three NCAA divisions. The 13-member MPSF men's volleyball league, otherwise made up entirely of Division I schools, has two Division II members, California Baptist and UC San Diego. The eight members of the MIVA are equally divided between Division I and Division II schools, although one of the D-II schools will move to Division I in July 2013. The eight members of EIVA consist of seven Division I members plus Rutgers–Newark, the only remaining Division III school competing for the National Collegiate Championship. The sizes of the conferences have fluctuated over the years as new men's volleyball programs arise and other programs are dropped from their schools. The creation of the men's Division III national championship led to several D-III schools leaving the EIVA.
Currently, each of the three major conferences ((MPSF), (MIVA) and (EIVA)) receive an automatic bid to the Final Four with one additional at-large bid. The remaining bid is an at-large bid that may be awarded to any team in Division I or II (including Rutgers–Newark). Generally, the best team not receiving an automatic bid (usually from one of the three major conferences) receives the at-large bid.
Members [edit]
Division I [edit]
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
George Mason University
Harvard University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark
Sacred Heart University
Saint Francis University of Pennsylvania
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Ball State University
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Loyola University Chicago
Ohio State University
Grand Canyon University (NCAA Division II)
Lewis University (NCAA Division II)
Quincy University (NCAA Division II)
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Brigham Young University
California State University, Northridge
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
California State University, Long Beach
University of the Pacific
Pepperdine University
Stanford University
University of Southern California
University of California, San Diego (NCAA Division II)
Division II [edit]
Conference Carolinas-NCAA Division II
Coker College (SC)(began sponsoring men's volleyball in 2012-13)
Belmont Abbey (NC)(began sponsoring men's volleyball in 2012-13)
Erskine College (SC)(began sponsoring men's volleyball in 2012-13)
Barton University (NC)
Lees-McRae College (NC)
Mount Olive College (NC)
Limestone College (SC)
Pfeiffer University (NC)
King College (TN)
Division III - North East Collegiate Volleyball Association [edit]
CUNYAC
Baruch College
Brooklyn College
City College of New York
Hunter College
Lehman College, City University of New York
Medgar Evers College
New York City College of Technology
York College
Metro
Lancaster Bible College
Kean University
New Jersey City University
Ramapo College
Skyline
Yeshiva University
Polytechnic University (New York)
The Sage Colleges
College of Mount St. Vincent
SUNY Purchase
New England
Elms College
Endicott College
Lesley University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Newbury College
Regis College
Southern Vermont College
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Daniel Webster College
GNAC
Rivier College
Emmanuel College
Lasell College
Emerson College
Albertus Magnus College
Mount Ida College
Johnson & Wales University
United Volleyball Conference
Bard College
Medaille College
Nazareth College
D'Youville College
State University of New York Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology
New York University
Vassar College
State University of New York College at New Paltz
Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend College
Elmira College
Hilbert College
Continental Volleyball Conference
Thiel College
Stevenson University
Philadelphia Biblical University
Juniata College
Eastern Mennonite University
The College of Mount St. Joseph (OH)
Fontbonne University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Carthage College
University of California, Santa Cruz
Independent
University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (NCAA Division II)
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey (NCAA Division II)
Springfield College (NCAA Division III)
St. Joseph's College, New York (NCAA Division III)
Championship teams [edit]
National Collegiate Championship [edit]
California-based universities dominate the men's volleyball national championship; Penn State, Ohio State and Brigham Young University are the only non-California universities to have won the NCAA Div. I championship; Hawaiʻi and Lewis also won the championship tournament, but had their victories vacated due to NCAA rules violations. Only six non-California universities have participated in the NCAA Div. I championship match (Brigham Young, Penn St., Ohio St., IPFW, Hawaiʻi, and Lewis), although universities such as Princeton and Ball State have participated in the final four.
UCLA, Southern California, Penn State, Stanford, and Long Beach State are the only schools in Division I to have won an NCAA national championship in both men and women's volleyball. (But for Hawaiʻi's vacated 2002 title, it would have matched this feat with 3 NCAA and 1 AIAW women's national championships.) In addition, Stanford (1996–97) and Penn State (2007–08) are the only universities the men and women's volleyball programs of which have won the national championship in the same academic year. The 2013 Championship tournament was held on May 2 and 4, 2013 at the newly renovated Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles.
2011 Tournament [edit]
- May 5, 2011 – UC Santa Barbara def. Southern California, 29-27, 24-26, 25-15, 25-18; Ohio State def. Penn St., 25-18, 24-26, 25-22, 25-23
- May 7, 2011 – Ohio State def. UC Santa Barbara, 20-25, 25-20, 25-19, 22-25, 15-9
| Semi-Finals Thursday, May 5, 2011 Rec Hall, University Park, PA |
Championship Saturday, May 7, 2011 Rec Hall, University Park, PA |
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| 1 | Southern California (1) | 27 | 26 | 15 | 18 | |||||||||||
| 4 | UC Santa Barbara (3) | 29 | 24 | 25 | 25 | |||||||||||
| 4 | UC Santa Barbara (2) | 25 | 20 | 19 | 25 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State (3) | 20 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Penn State (1) | 18 | 26 | 22 | 23 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State (3) | 25 | 24 | 25 | 25 | |||||||||||
2012 Tournament [edit]
- April 29, 2012 – Selections
- May 3, 2012 – Semifinals (6 p.m./8 p.m. PT) at Galen Center, Los Angeles, California: #1 seed UC Irvine defeated #4 seed Penn State 3-1 (18-25, 25-18, 25-15, 25-19); #2 seed Southern California defeated #3 seed Lewis 3-1 (25-18, 25-12, 18-25, 27-25)
- May 5, 2012 – Championship (7 p.m. PT) at Galen Center, Los Angeles, California: UC Irvine defeated Southern California 3-0 (25-22, 34-32, 26-24); 9,612 attended (record)
| Semi-Finals Thursday, May 3, 2012 Galen Center, Los Angeles, CA |
Championship Saturday, May 5, 2012 Galen Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1 | UC Irvine (3) | 18 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Penn State (1) | 25 | 18 | 15 | 19 | |||||||||||
| 1 | UC Irvine (3) | 25 | 34 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Southern California (0) | 22 | 32 | 24 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Southern California (3) | 25 | 25 | 18 | 27 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Lewis University (IL) (1) | 18 | 12 | 25 | 25 | |||||||||||
2013 Tournament [edit]
- April 28, 2013 – Selections
- May 2, 2013 – Semifinals (6 p.m./8 p.m. PT) at Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, NCAA.com: No. 2-seed UC Irvine defeated No. 3-seed Loyola-Chicago 3–0; No. 1-seed BYU defeated No. 4-seed Penn State 3–0
- May 4, 2013 – National Championship (6 p.m. PT) at Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, ESPNU: UC Irvine defeated BYU 3-0 ( 25-23, 25-22, 26-24)
- May 4, 2013 – Game Notes: UC Irvine head coach David Kniffin became just the second coach in NCAA men’s volleyball history to win a national title in his first season; 6,295 attended the title game
- May 4, 2013 – All-Tournament Team: Connor Hughes, who had 11 kills in the title game for UC Irvine (Most Outstanding Player); Chris Austin, UC Irvine; Michael Brinkley, UC Irvine Collin Mehring, UC Irvine; Kevin Tillie, UC Irvine; Ben Patch, BYU; Taylor Sander, BYU
| Semi-Finals Thursday, May 2, 2012 Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA |
Championship Saturday, May 4, 2012 Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1 | Brigham Young (3) | 25 | 25 | 25 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Penn State (0) | 21 | 16 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Brigham Young (0) | 23 | 22 | 24 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | UC Irvine (3) | 25 | 25 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | UC Irvine (3) | 26 | 25 | 29 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Loyola University Chicago (0) | 24 | 18 | 27 | ||||||||||||
2014 Tournament [edit]
- The 2014 tournament will be held in the Gentile Arena, Chicago, IL on the campus of Loyola University Chicago.
Champions [edit]
| Year | National Champion | Score | Runner-up | City and venue | |
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| 1970 [2] | UCLA (24–1) | 3–0 | Long Beach State | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1971 [3] | UCLA (29–1) | 3–2 | UC Santa Barbara | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1972 [4] | UCLA (27–7) | 3–2 | San Diego State | Muncie, IN | Irving Gymnasium |
| 1973 | San Diego State (21–5) | 3–1 | Long Beach State | San Diego, CA | San Diego State |
| 1974 | UCLA(30–5) | 3–2 | UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | UC Santa Barbara |
| 1975 | UCLA (27–8) | 3–1 | UC Santa Barbara | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1976 | UCLA(15–2) | 3–2 | San Diego State | Muncie, IN | Irving Gymnasium |
| 1977 | Southern California (18–1) | 3–1 | Ohio State | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1978 | Pepperdine (21–4) | 3–2 | UCLA | Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 1979 | UCLA (30–0) | 3–1 | Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1980 | Southern California (22–6) | 3–1 | UCLA | Muncie, IN | Irving Gymnasium |
| 1981 | UCLA (32–3) | 3–2 | Southern California | Santa Barbara, CA | UCSB Events Center |
| 1982 | UCLA (29–0) | 3–0 | Penn State | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 1983 | UCLA (27–4) | 3–0 | Pepperdine | Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 1984 | UCLA (38–0) | 3–1 | Pepperdine | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1985 | Pepperdine (25–2) | 3–2 | Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1986 | Pepperdine (22–7) | 3–2 | Southern California | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 1987 | UCLA (38–3) | 3–0 | Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1988 | Southern California (34–4) | 3–2 | UC Santa Barbara | Fort Wayne, IN | ACWMC |
| 1989 | UCLA (29–5) | 3–1 | Stanford | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1990 | Southern California (26–7) | 3–1 | Long Beach State | Fairfax, VA | Patriot Center |
| 1991 | Long Beach State (31–4) | 3–1 | Southern California | Honolulu, HI | Neal S. Blaisdell Center |
| 1992 | Pepperdine (24–4) | 3–0 | Stanford | Muncie, IN | John E. Worthen Arena |
| 1993 | UCLA (24–3) | 3–0 | Cal St. Northridge | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1994 | Penn State (26–3) | 3–2 | UCLA | Fort Wayne, IN | ACWMC |
| 1995 | UCLA (31–1) | 3–0 | Penn State | Springfield, MA | Springfield Civic Center |
| 1996 | UCLA (26–5) | 3–2 | Hawaiʻi | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 1997 | Stanford (27–4) | 3–2 | UCLA | Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 1998 | UCLA (28–4) | 3–0 | Pepperdine | Honolulu, HI | Stan Sheriff Center |
| 1999 | BYU (30–1) | 3–0 | Long Beach State | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 2000 | UCLA (29–5) | 3–0 | Ohio State | Fort Wayne, IN | ACWMC |
| 2001 | BYU (23–4) | 3–0 | UCLA | Long Beach, CA | The Walter Pyramid |
| 2002 | Hawaiʻi (24–8)± | 3–1 | Pepperdine | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 2003 | Lewis (29–6)± | 3–2 | BYU | Long Beach, CA | The Walter Pyramid |
| 2004 | BYU (29–4) | 3–2 | Long Beach State | Honolulu, HI | Stan Sheriff Center |
| 2005 | Pepperdine (25–2) | 3–2 | UCLA | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 2006 | UCLA (26–12) | 3–0 | Penn State | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 2007 | UC Irvine (29–5) | 3–1 | IPFW | Columbus, OH | St. John Arena |
| 2008 | Penn State (30–1) | 3–1 | Pepperdine | Irvine, CA | Bren Events Center |
| 2009 | UC Irvine (27–5) | 3–2 | Southern California (21-11) | Provo, UT | Smith Fieldhouse |
| 2010 | Stanford (24-6)[5] | 3–0 | Penn State (24-8) | Stanford, CA | Maples Pavilion |
| 2011 | Ohio State (26-6)[6] | 3–2 | UC Santa Barbara (18-15) | University Park, PA | Rec Hall |
| 2012 | UC Irvine (26-5) | 3–0 | Southern California (24-6) | Los Angeles, CA | Galen Center |
| 2013 | UC Irvine (25-7)[7] | 3-0 | BYU (26-5) | Los Angeles, CA | Pauley Pavilion |
| 2014 | Chicago, IL | Gentile Arena | |||
±Vacated due to NCAA violations
NCAA Championships by University [edit]
| School | # | Last |
|---|---|---|
| UCLA | 19 | 2006 |
| Pepperdine | 5 | 2005 |
| Southern California | 4 | 1990 |
| UC Irvine | 4 | 2013 |
| BYU | 3 | 2004 |
| Penn State | 2 | 2008 |
| Stanford | 2 | 2010 |
| Ohio State | 1 | 2011 |
| Long Beach State | 1 | 1991 |
| San Diego State | 1 | 1973 |
See also [edit]
- NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship
- NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
- Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Volleyball Champions
Notes [edit]
- ^ "Men's Volleyball". NECC website. New England Collegiate Conference. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ 1970s UCLA Athletics
- ^ 1970s UCLA Athletics
- ^ 1970s UCLA Athletics
- ^ "Stanford beats Penn State, wins NCAA men's volleyball title". USA Today. 13 may 2010.
- ^ "Ohio State ends UCSB's surprising run to claim 1st NCAA men's volleyball title". Daily Reporter. 7 May 2011.
- ^ UC Irvine defeats BYU in three sets to claim consecutive national title, NCAA.com, May 5, 2013
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