Women's Beach Volleyball | April 28, 2024
Los Angeles โ The three-time NCAA champion USC beach volleyball team (33-5) earned the top seed among the 17 teams competing in the 2024 NCAA Championships, defeating Atlantic Sun champion North Florida (24-11). ) or Ohio Valley champion Chattanooga (19-9 in the round of 16, the NCAA announced Sunday, April 28).
The Women of Troy are scheduled to play in the Round of 16 at 11 a.m. Central Time (9 a.m. Pacific Time). All opener and first round games will be broadcast live on ESPNU. The quarterfinals and semifinals (May 4) will be broadcast live on ESPN2. The Championship Dual is scheduled for Sunday (May 5th) at 10 a.m. CT and will also be broadcast live on ESPN2.
The Trojans just won their fifth conference title and automatically qualified for the tournament from the Pac-12. This is the fourth time USC has earned the top seed in the national tournament. The Trojans were the No. 1 seed in 2017, when they won the championship, in 2022, and in 2019, when USC finished as the national runner-up. USC has appeared in every NCAA tournament and has held the No. 2 seed (2016, 2021), No. 3 seed (2023), and No. 5 seed (2018).
USC has won five NCAA titles, including its first-ever championship won in 2016. The Trojans also won in 2017 to become the first back-to-back NCAA champions in history, and have won the last three (2021-23) to become the top team. First 3 consecutive wins in history.The Women of Troy are 27-4 overall in NCAA duals and 13-0 under their fifth-year head coach. Dane Blanton. Including duals at the Pac-12 Tournament and AVCA Championship, USC is 62-15 in all postseason duals and 26-5 under Blanton. USC won his last AVCA College Beach Championship in 2015 with a 28-0 record.
The Trojans are 2-0 against North Florida and played the Ospreys on the same day (May 3) in 2013 at the AVCA Championship in Gulf Shores. USC also faced UNF in Miami in 2023 (March 18) for a double game. The meeting between USC and Chattanooga will be the first meeting between the Trojans and Mock.
A record six Pac-12 teams qualified for the national tournament. Conference runner-up UCLA (32-6) was assigned the second seed, followed by third-seeded Stanford (31-5). California (19-13) will be making its third appearance. The four California Pac-12 schools will be joined by a pair of debutants: No. 12 seed Arizona State (21-9) and No. 13 seed Washington State (20-15).
For the Trojans, a win in the Round of 16 would result in a matchup in the quarterfinals against either eighth-seeded West Coast Conference champion Loyola Marymount (27-13) or Big West champion Hawaii (24-11). It turns out. .
The Trojans won their last Pac-12 championship with USC set to depart for the Big Ten Conference in August. At that time, USC beach volleyball will transition to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. This is also the last year that the national beach volleyball championship is scheduled to be held in Gulf Shores. The championship will move to Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2025 (May 2-4) and 2026 (May 1-3), with Long Beach State and the Orange Beach Sports Commission hosting the event.
For more information, schedule and ticket purchase links, visit NCAA.com. For more information on the USC beach volleyball team, complete schedule and results, visit USCTrojans.com/beach. Women of Troy fans can follow the team on Instagram and X @USCBeach.