Mizzou volleyball set for second-straight NCAA Tournament berth
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
For the second-straight season, the Mizzou volleyball team will look to make a run in the NCAA Tournament.
The No. 7-seeded Tigers are headed to the Dallas Regional (hosted by SMU), where they will face Texas State in round one of the Pittsburgh Quarter on Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. CT. Assuming MU advances to round two, the team will either face Wichita State or No. 2-seeded SMU in the second round of the Pittsburgh Quarter.
The postseason run will come after Mizzou finished the regular season 20-8 overall and 11-5 in SEC action. The Tigers also finished in the top portion of the conference, as they were, at one point, in a fight for first place in the league with Kentucky.
Head coach Dawn Sullivan and company will be making the program's 19th appearance in the big dance. The postseason run will also mark the second time in just two seasons at the helm in Columbia that Sullivan has led a team to an NCAA berth. Before she took over as head coach, Mizzou had not made a run since 2020.
In MU's 2023-24 postseason appearance, the Tigers fell in the second round of the Nebraska Quarter in a meeting with then-No. 1 Cornhuskers.
Mizzou is 18-18 all-time at the NCAA Volleyball Championships.
The first and second rounds of the 2024 tournament will be played from Thursday, Dec. 5 through Saturday, Dec. 7. Teams will then move on to Regionals, which run from Thursday, Dec. 12 through Sunday, Dec. 15.
The competition is then dwindled down to four, when the national semifinals begin at 5:30 p.m. CT on Thursday, Dec. 19.
Finally, the season will come to an end on Sunday, Dec. 22 when the National Championship will be played at 2 p.m. CT on KMIZ.
