The 2013 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began on December 5, 2013 and ended on December 21, 2013 at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. The NCAA selection show was televised on Sunday, December 1, 2013.
Qualifying teams The champions of the NCAA's 32 conferences qualify automatically. Twenty-two conferences hold tournaments, while the other ten award their automatic bid on the basis of being the league's regular-season champion. Those that do not hold tournaments are the Atlantic Coast, American Athletic, Big 12, Big West, Big Ten, Ivy League, Mountain West, Pac-12, Southeastern and West Coast Conferences. The other 32 bids are apportioned on an at-large basis. Only the top 16 teams overall are seeded.
Records Lincoln RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord American Patriot Automatic4532-2 Arizona Pac-12 At-Large2420-12 College of Charleston Colonial Athletic Automatic6525-516 Duke Atlantic Coast Automatic1227-4 Fairfield Metro Atlantic Automatic15419-12 Georgia Southeastern At-Large3222-9 Miami Atlantic Coast At-Large5119-118 Nebraska Big Ten At-Large923-6 New Mexico State Western Athletic Automatic9122-10 Oregon Pac-12 At-Large2519-119 San Diego West Coast Automatic1424-31 Texas Big 12 Automatic223-2 Texas A&M Southeastern At-Large3118-11 Texas State Sun Belt Automatic10424-12 UC Santa Barbara Big West Automatic6018-10 UTSA Conference USA Automatic4624-7 Champaign RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord California Pac-12 At-Large3817-12 Central Arkansas Southland Automatic4429-35 Florida Southeastern At-Large327-3 Florida State Atlantic Coast At-Large1924-7 Georgia Southern Southern Automatic7328-513 Illinois Big Ten At-Large2016-14 IUPUI Summit Automatic11419-13 Jacksonville Atlantic Sun Automatic8930-3 Louisville American Athletic Automatic4223-7 Marquette Big East Automatic825-5 Milwaukee Horizon Automatic7718-104 Missouri Southeastern Automatic434-0 Morehead State Ohio Valley Automatic9527-7 North Carolina Atlantic Coast At-Large2227-4 Purdue Big Ten At-Large2720-1112 Wisconsin Big Ten At-Large1523-9 Los Angeles RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord Alabama State Southwestern Athletic Automatic27825-15 Arizona State Pac-12 At-Large4919-13 Arkansas Southeastern At-Large3616-13 BYU West Coast At-Large2922-6 Cal State Northridge Big West At-Large4123-6 Colorado State Mountain West Automatic2128-1 Creighton Big East At-Large1622-811 Hawaii Big West At-Large1724-4 Idaho State Big Sky Automatic10223-1114 Kansas Big 12 At-Large1323-7 LSU Southeastern At-Large3018-12 Michigan Big Ten At-Large3318-13 New Hampshire America East Automatic20620-126 USC Pac-12 At-Large726-53 Washington Pac-12 Automatic526-2 Wichita State Missouri Valley Automatic3528-6 Lexington RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord Alabama Southeastern At-Large3424-9 Colorado Pac-12 At-Large4817-13 Duquesne Atlantic 10 Automatic9320-9 Hampton Mid-Eastern Athletic Automatic19219-10 Iowa State Big 12 At-Large2318-915 Kentucky Southeastern At-Large1021-8 LIU-Brooklyn Northeast Automatic8823-7 Michigan State Big Ten At-Large2821-1110 Minnesota Big Ten At-Large1127-6 Ohio Mid-American Automatic4027-5 Oklahoma Big 12 At-Large1823-72 Penn State Big Ten Automatic128-2 Radford Big South Automatic15725-97 Stanford Pac-12 At-Large624-5 Utah Pac-12 At-Large2620-12 Yale Ivy League Automatic3920-4
Bracket The first two rounds were held on campus sites (the home court of the seeded team). Regional semifinals and finals were held at pre-determined sites. In 2013, those sites were hosted by Nebraska, Illinois, USC, and Kentucky, all of whom made the tournament and hosted in the first two rounds. Unlike the NCAA basketball tournament, where teams cannot be placed into regionals that they host, the selectors in the volleyball tournament were required to place qualifying teams in their 'home' regionals, in order to reduce travel costs.
Lincoln, Nebraska Regional
Champaign, Illinois Regional
Los Angeles, California Regional
Lexington, Kentucky Regional
Final Four
Final Four All-Tournament Team: Micha Hancock - Penn State (Most Outstanding Player) Ariel Scott - Penn State Deja McClendon - Penn State Katie Slay - Penn State Deme Morales - Wisconsin Lauren Carlini - Wisconsin Krista Vansant - Washington
Record by conference Conference# of BidsRecordWin %R32S16E8F4CMNC Pac-12 9 15–9* 8 3 3 1 Big Ten 8 23–7* 7 7 4 2 2 1 Southeastern 8 5–8 5 Atlantic Coast 4 3–4 2 1 Big 12 4 6-4 3 2 1 1 Big West 3 2–3 2 Big East 2 2–2 2 West Coast 2 4–2 2 2 Patriot 1 2-1 1 1 Other 23 0–23
*Four tournament matches featured one Big Ten team against another, and likewise one featured one Pac-12 team against another. Each of those matches is counted as one win and one loss for the respective conference.
The columns R32, S16, E8, F4, CM, and NC respectively stand for the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, Championship Match, and National Champion.
The America East, American Athletic, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Colonial Athletic, Conference USA, Horizon League, Ivy League, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern Athletic, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Southern, Southland, Southwestern Athletic, Summit League, Sun Belt and Western Athletic Conferences all qualified one team which lost in the first round.
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