NCAA Div II Women's Volleyball Committee
announces 2005 Championship Bracket
NCCU headed to
Pennsylvania; Albany State to Alabama
November 13, 2005
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division II Women’s Volleyball
Committee announced the field of 63 teams for the 2005 NCAA
Division II Women’s Volleyball Championship. The committee
selected eight teams from each of the following regions to
participate in the championship: Atlantic, Great Lakes, Northeast,
Pacific, South, South Central and Southwest. The committee
selected seven teams from the North Central region, adhering
to selection criteria requiring that a team have a won-lost
record of .500 or above against Division II teams to be considered
for an at-large selection.
Seven eight-team regionals and one seven-team regional will
be played at on-campus sites. Regional competition will be
single-elimination, best three-of-five game matches and will
not include a third-place match. The winners of each of the
eight regionals will advance to the finals, December 1-3, on
the campus of one of the final eight institutions. Competition
at the final site will be single-elimination, best three-of-five
game matches.
The dates, sites and team match-ups are:
Atlantic Region
November 17-19 at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven (Host) (30-5) vs. *North Carolina
Central (29-13);
*California (Pennsylvania) (33-2) vs. *Lees-McRae (24-10);
Edinboro (25-15) vs. Mount Olive (28-7);
Slippery Rock (24-9) vs. Indiana (Pennsylvania) (24-10)
Great Lakes Region
November 17-19 at Allendale, Michigan
*Grand Valley State (Host) (26-6) vs. *Charleston (West Virginia)
(26-9);
Rockhurst (27-6) vs. Hillsdale (19-11);
*Southern Illinois Edwardsville (27-5) vs. Ferris State (22-9);
Northwood (22-9) vs. Ashland (23-9)
North Central Region
November 17-19 at St. Paul, Minnesota
*Concordia-St. Paul (Host) (28-4) vs. Bye;
*Minnesota Duluth (25-4) vs. Augustana (South Dakota) (15-11);
Nebraska-Omaha (19-7) vs. Wayne State (Nebraska) (25-9);
Southwest Minnesota State (25-7) vs. Minnesota State Moorhead
(25-5)
Northeast Region
November 17-19 at Smithfield, Rhode Island
*Dowling (30-8) vs. *Goldey-Beacom (26-7);
*Bryant (Host) (26-9) vs. New York Institute of Technology
(16-15);
Bentley (27-7) vs. Massachusetts-Lowell (18-9);
Mercy (20-11) vs. Saint Rose (24-6)
Pacific Region
November 17-19 at Los Angeles, California
Cal State L.A. (Host) (24-2) vs. *Seattle Pacific (22-5);
*Cal Poly Pomona (24-2) vs. Central Washington (22-4);
Cal State San Bernardino (19-7) vs. Brigham Young-Hawaii (20-4);
Hawaii Pacific (23-2) vs. Cal State Bakersfield (20-8)
South Region
November 18-20 at Tampa, Florida
*Tampa (Host) (25-3) vs. *Francis Marion (29-10);
Florida Southern (32-3) vs. Wingate (25-5);
Florida Gulf Coast (25-3) vs. *Presbyterian (32-4);
Barry (17-9) vs. Rollins (25-10)
South Central Region
November 17-19 at Florence, Alabama
*North Alabama (Host) (35-1) vs. *Albany
State (Georgia) (16-19);
*Truman (29-5) vs. Alabama-Huntsville (24-12);
Washburn (34-2) vs. Harding (33-4);
Central Missouri State (24-9) vs. Emporia State (24-7)
Southwest Region
November 18-20 at Kearney, Nebraska
*Nebraska-Kearney (Host) (33-1) vs. Colorado School of Mines
(20-10);
Metropolitan State (21-8) vs. West Texas A&M (27-9);
*Abilene Christian (29-3) vs. Central Oklahoma (27-7);
*Western New Mexico (26-4) vs. Mesa State (22-6)
* Denotes conference automatic qualification
In 2004, Barry won its third Division II Women's Volleyball
Championship -- the second at home -- with a four-game triumph
over previously undefeated Truman, December 4 in Miami Shores,
Florida. The Buccaneers lost the first game to the Bulldogs,
30-25, before going on to take the next three, 30-21, 30-25
and 30-24, on their home court.
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