The 2015 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began December 4, 2015 and concluded on December 19 at CenturyLink Center, now known as CHI Health Center, in Omaha, Nebraska.Road to the Championship The tournament field was determined on November 29, 2015. Nebraska swept Texas in the final to claim their fourth national championship.
Qualifying teams The champions of the NCAA's 32 conferences qualified automatically. Twenty-two conferences held tournaments, while the other ten awarded their automatic bid on the basis of being the league's regular-season champion. Those that did not hold tournaments were the American Athletic, Atlantic Coast, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West, Ivy League, Mountain West, Pac-12, Southeastern and West Coast Conferences. The other 32 bids were apportioned on an at-large basis. Only the top 16 teams overall were seeded.
Records San Diego RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord Cleveland State Horizon Automatic6726-6 Coastal Carolina Big South Automatic8325-4 Colorado State Mountain West Automatic2026-316 Creighton Big East Automatic1525-8 Furman SoCon Automatic8421-89 Kansas Big 12 At-Large826-2 Loyola Marymount West Coast At-Large2722-8 Missouri SEC At-Large1826-5 Missouri State Missouri Valley Automatic3424-10 New Mexico State WAC Automatic6128-5 North Carolina ACC At-Large2420-9 Northern Arizona Big Sky Automatic3328-4 San Diego West Coast At-Large3021-98 Stanford Pac-12 At-Large1222-6 UNC-Wilmington CAA Automatic5824-71 USC Pac-12Automatic/Split330-2 Lexington RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord American Patriot Automatic7727-6 Arizona Pac-12 At-Large4619-13 Arkansas State Sun Belt Automatic1628-113 BYU West Coast Automatic1426-3 Denver The Summit League Automatic8727-7 Harvard Ivy League Automatic14415-10 Kansas State Big 12 At-Large5117-11 Kentucky SEC At-Large2121-9 Michigan State Big Ten At-Large5418-134 Nebraska Big Ten At-Large426-4 Ohio MAC Automatic5225-712 Ohio State Big Ten At-Large1723-9 Robert Morris NEC Automatic20319-125 Washington Pac-12 Automatic/Split928-2 Western Kentucky Conference USA Automatic1331-3 Wichita State Missouri Valley At-Large2826-8 Austin RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord Arizona State Pac-12 At-Large3919-12 Fairfield MAAC Automatic16421-911 Florida SEC At-Large722-6 Florida State ACC At-Large2524-7 Iowa State Big 12 At-Large2318-10 Lipscomb Atlantic Sun Automatic5023-8 Miami (FL) ACC At-Large3821-9 Michigan Big Ten At-Large3119-12 New Hampshire America East Automatic14321-8 Oregon Pac-12 At-Large4816-13 Purdue Big Ten At-Large3522-9 Santa Clara West Coast At-Large3722-8 SMU American Automatic3227-53 Texas Big 12Automatic125-214 UCLA Pac-12 At-Large1123-76 Wisconsin Big Ten At-Large524-6 Des Moines RegionalSeedSchoolConference Berth TypeRPIRecord Belmont Ohio Valley Automatic16917-14 Dayton Atlantic 10 Automatic2226-5 Hawaii Big West Automatic2626-1 Howard MEAC Automatic22818-13 Illinois Big Ten At-Large2919-12 Jackson State SWAC Automatic31015-2115 Louisville ACC Automatic1924-6 Marquette Big East At-Large3621-112 Minnesota Big Ten Automatic226-4 Northern Iowa Missouri Valley At-Large4519-147 Penn State Big Ten At-Large1026-5 Southern Illinois Missouri Valley At-Large4023-9 TCU Big 12 At-Large4919-910 Texas A&M SEC Automatic623-6 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Southland Automatic6531-4 Villanova Big East At-Large4125-8
Bracket The first two rounds were held on campus sites (the home court of the seeded team, with the exception of Creighton. Due to basketball events already being scheduled in Omaha, the Bluejays had to head to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to play the first and second round.). Regional semifinals and finals were held at pre-determined sites. In 2015, those sites were hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, University of Northern Iowa, University of Kentucky, and University of San Diego. 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.volleyball women
San Diego Regional
Lexington Regional
Austin Regional
Des Moines Regional
Final Four
Final Four All-Tournament Team: Mikaela Foecke - Nebraska (Most Outstanding Player) Amber Rolfzen - Nebraska Justine Wong-Orantes - Nebraska Kelly Hunter - Nebraska Amy Neal - Texas Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani - Texas Kelsie Payne - Kansas
Record by conference Conference# of BidsRecordWin %R32S16E8F4CMNC Big Ten 9 21–8 9 6 2 2 1 1 Big 12 5 10–5 3 2 2 2 1 Pac-12 7 9–7 4 3 2 Southeastern 4 5–4 3 1 1 Big West 1 3–1 1 1 1 West Coast 4 5–4 3 2 Big East 3 3–3 2 1 Atlantic 10 1 1–1 1 Conference USA 1 1–1 1 Patriot 1 1–1 1 Atlantic Coast 4 3–4 3 Missouri Valley 4 1–4 1 Other 20 0–20
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.
Television All first and second-round games were broadcast on local networks or digital feeds [Longhorn Network (Austin), SEC+ (College Station, Gainesville), BYUtv (Provo), ESPN3 (Chapel Hill, Lawrence, Louisville, College Station- non-SEC, Austin- non-Texas, Gainesville- non-SEC), TheW.tv (Provo- non BYU), P12 Digital feeds (Los Angeles, Stanford, Seattle), and Big Ten Digital (Minneapolis, University Park, Madison, Lincoln]. The Regional Finals onward will all be on ESPN Networks. ESPN3 will carry all the Regional Semis except one game in San Diego which will be shown on ESPNU. ESPNU will carry all the regional finals. ESPN2 will carry the National Semifinals and Final.
Beth Mowins & Karch Kiraly (Austin), & Holly Rowe (Omaha) Tiffany Greene & Missy Whittemore (Lexington) Paul Sunderland & Dain Blanton (San Diego) Cara Capuano & Maria Taylor (Des Moines)
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