2016 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament
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| Dates | May 3–7, 2016 | ||
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| Teams | 6 | ||
| Champions | Ohio State | ||
| Runners-up | BYU | ||
| Matches played | 5 | ||
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The 2016 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament was the 47th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I and Division II men's collegiate indoor volleyball. The single elimination tournament was played at Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania from May 3–7, 2016.[1]
Qualification
With the creation of the separate NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, combined with the completion of the transition of the last Division III institution competing at the National Collegiate level, Rutgers–Newark, to Division III volleyball after the 2014 season, only NCAA men's volleyball programs from Division I and Division II were eligible for this tournament.
For the third straight year, a total of 6 teams were invited:
- Champions of the following conferences:
- Two at-large teams
Tournament bracket
- The semifinals and finals of the 2016 tournament were held in the Rec Hall on the campus of Penn State University. Two quarterfinal "play-in" matches were held at the Rec Hall two days prior to the national semifinals. The six teams were seeded according to the same methods used to seed the teams in previous tournaments; the top two seeds received byes into the Final Four, while the third seed faced the sixth seed in the quarterfinals, and likewise the fourth seed faced the fifth seed.
- May 3: Quarterfinals (#3 vs. #6 seed; #4 vs. #5 seed)
- May 5: Semifinals (#1 vs. #4-#5 winner; #2 vs. #3-#6 winner)
- May 7: NCAA Championship
| Quarterfinals Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Rec Hall, University Park, PA College Sports Live |
Semifinals Thursday, May 5, 2016 Rec Hall, University Park, PA NCAA.com |
Championship Saturday, May 7, 2016 Rec Hall, University Park, PA ESPN2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | BYU (3) | 25 | 23 | 25 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Long Beach State (3) | 25 | 27 | 25 | 4 | Long Beach State (1) | 21 | 25 | 19 | 18 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Erskine (0) | 14 | 25 | 20 | 1 | BYU (0) | 30 | 23 | 17 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State (3) | 32 | 25 | 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | UCLA (2) | 25 | 22 | 21 | 25 | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State (3) | 22 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 3 | Ohio State (3) | 22 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 18 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | George Mason (1) | 25 | 21 | 20 | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Broadcasts
Penn State's website carried the first round matches with video and no commentary. NCAA.com carried both national semifinals. ESPN2 carried the national championship. BYU Radio provided national radio coverage of one semifinal and the national championship.
TV/Streaming
- Semifinals: Ralph Bednarcyzk
- Championship: Paul Sunderland & Kevin Barnett
Radio
- Jarom Jordan & Rob Neilson (BYU Radio)
See also
- NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship
- NCAA Women's Volleyball Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
References
- ↑ "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites". Ncaa.com. Retrieved 2015-05-14.