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Championship selections

April 30, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Men's Volleyball Committee announced today the bracket for the 2006 National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship. The semifinals and final will take place May 4 and 6, in University Park, Pennsylvania, at Rec Hall. Pennsylvania State University, is the host.

Four teams were selected to compete for the championship. Automatic qualification was awarded to UCLA (24-12), the winner of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation; IPFW (23-6), winner of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association; and Penn State (20-8), winner of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. One team, UC Irvine (27-4), was selected at-large.

Semifinal No. 1 will be #2 seed UCLA versus #3 seed IPFW and will be broadcast live on Thursday, May 4 at 6 p.m. Eastern time on ESPNU. Semifinal No. 2 will be #1 seed UC Irvine versus #4 seed Penn State and will be broadcast on live on Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m. Eastern time on ESPNU. The national championship match will be broadcast live on May 6 at 7 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN2.

The complete bracket, along with dates and match-ups, is attached.

-- Courtesy NCAA

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Extra rejoicing if you get ESPNU

[robonthemic]

The UCI Athletics department will be doing an internet broadcast of the Irvine matches. If any of you are interested check out www.mvball.uci.edu.

I kicked down on the DirecTV Sports pack for this month only so I could see all the volleyball matches via CSTV and ESPNU. It has been well worth it!

[Mac]

Rob... do you plan to record the matches? It'd be great to know you might be a backup source for a DVD of the matches in case they're not available anywhere else.

[KO7]

Is there a bronze medal match played? Will it be aired anywhere on TV?

[robonthemic]

mac said:

Rob... do you plan to record the matches? It'd be great to know you might be a backup source for a DVD of the matches in case they're not available anywhere else.

I'm planning on recording everything AND assuming that my lovely wife doesn't erase my DVR programming before I get back from out of town, I'll see what I can do for you! Email me on Monday.

[KO7]

Is there a bronze medal match played? Or just semi-finals and a final?

[midwestfan]

just semi's and the final.

[KO7]

Thanks.