USC Women's Volleyball Earns Fourth Straight NCAA Tournament Berth

LOS ANGELES – The USC women's volleyball team (24-6, 15-5 Big Ten) was awarded one of 33 at-large berths into the 2025 NCAA tournament and will make its fourth straight appearance (41st all-time) in the national postseason tourney, the NCAA selection committee announced on Sunday, Nov. 30.

The Trojans will take on Ivy League champion Princeton (18-6) in the first round on Thursday (Dec. 4) at approximately 7 p.m. PT. In the other first round match set for 5 p.m., fifth-seeded BYU (22-8) of Big XII Conference will face Big West champion Cal Poly (25-7). The winners of the two first-round contests will advance to the second round to play on Friday (Dec. 5) at 7 p.m. PT. All three matches will be shown live on ESPN+.

For the first time since 2018, USC will host NCAA matches at Galen Center where it is 20-4 in postseason contests since 2006. Seeded fourth in the Lexington region of the 64-team bracket, it is the highest seed assigned to the Women of Troy since USC held the No. 11 seed in 2018 when the NCAA only seeded the top 16 seeds nationally.

Tickets for individual days and an all-session package will be available at USCTrojans.com/tickets later this week. Pricing is as follows:

SINGLE-DAY TICKETS
Adult ticket - $20 w/ $2 per ticket fee
Student ticket - $10 w/ $1 per ticket fee

ALL-SESSION PACKAGE
Adult tickets - $35 w/ $4 per package fee
Student tickets - $25 w/ $4 per package fee

USC owns six national championships: three NCAA titles (1981, 2002, '03) and three AIAW championships (1976, '77, '80). The Trojans are 130-44 (.747) all-time in the postseason with an 84-37 (.694) record in NCAA tournament matches. The Women of Troy won the inaugural NCAA crown in 1981 and secured back-to-back championships under Mick Haley in 2002 and 2003. Before the NCAA began sponsoring the sport, USC won its three AIAW titles (1976, '77, '80) under the guidance of Chuck Erbe. The Trojans have appeared in all but four of the NCAA's 45 annual championship tournaments (1986, 1990, 2020-21, 2021).

Since the NCAA expanded to a field of 64 teams in 1998, USC has advanced to 12 regional championship matches, seven national semifinals (final four), and two national finals (both victories). Last year, the Women of Troy defeated UT-Arlington in the first round of the tournament at the Austin site hosted by Texas but fell to the Longhorns in the second round.

MEDIA CREDENTIALS
Media interested in covering the NCAA first- and second-round matches at Galen Center are required to send credential requests via email to USC Associate Director of Sports Communications Jeremy Wu at jjw@usc.edu. Access to media row, the media workroom, and post-match press conferences is limited to credentialed media only. Please include name, outlet, and type (print press, photo, video, or TV/web), and an assignor or editorial contact when requesting credentials.

For more information on the USC women's volleyball team, please visit USCTrojans.com/WVB. Fans of the Women of Troy can follow @USCWomensVolley on X, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

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