Selections announced

Nov. 26, 2006

Bracket -
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06/DI

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Committee announced
today the 64-team field for the 2006 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 No. 1 the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln; No. 2 Stanford University; No. 3 Pennsylvania State University; and
No. 4 University of California, Los Angeles.

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 Pacific-10 Conference, the Southeastern Conference, and the Big Ten
Conference led all conferences with seven teams selected. The Big 12
Conference landed six teams and four conferences have three teams
represented in the bracket -- the West Coast Conference, Big West
Conference, Mountain West Conference and Big East Conference. Three teams,
Penn State, Stanford and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have
earned bids to all 26 championships. Five teams are making their initial
appearances in the tournament: Saint Louis University, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, St. John’s University (New York), University of Mississippi,
and Belmont University.

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 University of Washington.

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), UCLA (1984, 90, 91), Nebraska (1995 and 2000),
University of Southern California (1981, 2002, 03), Penn State (1999),
University of Texas at Austin (1988) and Washington (2005).

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

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA REGIONAL

December 1-2 at Omaha, Nebraska
Nebraska (27-1) vs. American (25-6)
Winthrop (34-2) vs. UNI (27-7)

December 1-2 at Knoxville, Tennessee
Tennessee (19-11) vs. Duke (28-3)
Jacksonville St. (24-4) vs. San Diego (24-5)

November 30- December 1 at Gainesville, Florida
Florida (28-2) vs. Florida A&M (21-6)
Col. of Charleston (27-7) vs. Arizona St. (15-14)

November 30- December 1 at Albany, New York
St. John’s (N.Y.) (30-4) vs. Albany (N.Y.) (19-12)
Siena (22-12) vs. Minnesota (23-7)

HONOLULU, HAWAII REGIONAL

November 30- December 1 at Los Angeles, California
Southern California (25-4) vs. Mississippi (19-12)
UC Santa Barb. (19-11) vs. Brigham Young (24-5)

December 1-2 at Long Beach, California
Pepperdine (16-11) vs. Long Beach St. (25-5)
Oregon (17-11) vs. Hawaii (26-5)

December 1-2 at Fayetteville, Arkansas
Oklahoma (26-5) vs. Oral Roberts (26-8)
Missouri St. (26-8) vs. Arkansas (16-12)

December 1-2 at Los Angeles, California
Utah (27-3) vs. Michigan St. (19-11)
UAB (27-9) vs. UCLA (29-3)

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON REGIONAL

December 1-2 at State College, Pennsylvania
Penn St. (29-2) vs. Long Island (25-10)
Cornell (18-8) vs. Hofstra (23-6)

November 30- December 1 at West Lafayette, Indiana
Kentucky (18-11) vs. Ohio (28-4)
St. Louis (22-8) vs. Purdue (21-10)

December 1-2 at Louisville, Kentucky
Ohio St. (23-7) vs. Belmont (24-6)
Middle Tenn. (26-7) vs. Louisville (25-6)

November 30- December 1 at Boulder, Colorado
Colorado (16-11) vs. New Mexico St. (33-3)
Colorado S. (20-9) vs. Washington (25-4)

AUSTIN, TEXAS REGIONAL

December 1-2 at Austin, Texas
Texas (21-6) vs. Prairie View (23-10)
Stephen F. Austin (30-3) vs. Alabama (17-12)

December 1-2 at Madison, Wisconsin
Iowa St. (20-10) vs. Wis.-Milwaukee (24-5)
Notre Dame (18-13) vs. Wisconsin (24-6)

December 1-2 at San Luis Obispo, California
Cal Poly (22-5) vs. Michigan (21-12)
California (20-9) vs. LSU (26-5)

December 1-2 at Stanford, California
Missouri (17-12) vs. Santa Clara (20-7)
Sacramento St. (30-5) vs. Stanford (25-3)

Teams winning both matches will move on to regional play December 8 and 9.
The pre-determined regional sites are Austin, Texas; Gainesville, Florida;
Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seattle, Washington. The regional winners will advance
to the semifinals and final hosted by Nebraska at the Qwest Center in Omaha,
Nebraska, on December 14 and 16.

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