22 Conference Champions Crowned One Week Until NCAA Volleyball Bracket

22 Conference Champions Crowned One Week Until NCAA Volleyball Bracket

With one week remaining until the NCAA volleyball selection show, 22 teams have won conference championships and punched their tickets to the NCAA tournament.

Nov 21, 2016 by Megan Kaplon
22 Conference Champions Crowned One Week Until NCAA Volleyball Bracket
With less than a week remaining until the 64 teams of the NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament are announced, the pressure is mounting for every team in the country.

Some teams are handling that pressure with aplomb, such as Wisconsin, which handled Big Ten foes Michigan and Michigan State fairly easily this past week. Big Ten leader Nebraska has swept its last five opponents and is on a 14-match win streak.

Other teams find themselves cracking under the pressure. Former SEC leader Florida had a streak of eight straight sweeps before losing to Missouri in five on Sunday. The Gators are now No. 2 in the SEC behind Kentucky (22-6, 15-2).

Penn State lost to Ohio State, but OSU lost to Illinois. In the very scrambled Big Ten standings, PSU is tied for fourth with Michigan State, while Ohio State clocks in at ninth.

Click here to see how these results affected the FloVolleyball NCAA Weekly Top 20.


Western Kentucky defeated Rice in the Conference USA championship match in five sets to secure a bid to the NCAA tournament. The Hilltoppers have an overall record of 30-2 and rank 15th in the RPI list from November 21.

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Conference champions were also crowned in 22 of the 32 Division I conferences, and as such 22 berths to the NCAA tournament have been secured. The remaining 32 will be determined through conference championships or the end-of-season standings later this week.

See the chart below for the list of those 22 champions.

Conference Champion
Atlantic Sun Conference Lipscomb
America East New Hampshire
American Athletic Conference TBD
Atlantic 10 Conference Dayton
Atlantic Coast Conference TBD
Big 12 TBD
Big East TBD
Big Sky North Dakota
Big South High Point
Big Ten TBD
Big West Hawaii
Colonial Athletic Association James Madison
Conference USA Western Kentucky
Horizon League Cleveland State
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Fairfield
Mid-American Conference Northern Illinois
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Howard
Missouri Valley Conference TBD
Mountain West Boise State
Northeast Conference LIU Brooklyn
Ohio Valley Conference Murray State
Pac-12 TBD
Patriot League American
Southeastern Conference TBD
Southern Conference TBD
Southland Conference Texas A&M-C.C.
Southwestern Athletic Conference Alabama State
Sun Belt Conference Coastal Carolina
The Ivy League Princeton
The Summit League Denver
West Coast Conference TBD
Western Athletic Conference UT-Rio Grande Valley