(Portions of this story were taken from the NCAA website)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) will send two teams to the 2015 NCAA Division III Volleyball Championship. Interactive Bracket | Printable Bracket
The NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship, and Colorado College and Southwestern University both received bids.
This marks the 11th consecutive season (2005-Present) and 15th overall time that the SCAC has placed at least two teams into NCAA volleyball postseason competition.
SCAC tournament champion and 12th-ranked Southwestern University (31-4), along with seventh-ranked and SCAC regular season champion Colorado College (34-3), were both sent to Thousand Oaks, California where California Lutheran University will serve as one of eight regional hosting sites.
Southwestern will play Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (26-5), the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion, while Colorado College will take on Cal Lutheran (25-5), an at-large recipient and also from the SCIAC, in first round play. With the bracket design, and if both teams continue to advance, there is the potential for an all SCAC region final.
This will be Colorado College's 17th straight tournament appearance and 26th overall. Only three schools have more Division III tournament appearances that CC. For Southwestern, this will the school's 13th trip to the NCAA Tournament and 10th in the last 11 years.
Forty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2015 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which consists of schools from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion. There were no Pool B berths for this year's championship.
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, November 13-15, at all sites except Berry, Calvin and Wisconsin-Whitewater, where competition will be Thursday-Saturday, November 12-14. The quarterfinals, semifinals and finals slated for Thursday-Saturday, November 19-21, at the Van Noord Arena on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.
