Volleyball Earns Trip To NCAA Tournament

BOULDER — For the 19^th time in Colorado volleyball history, the Buffaloes have advanced to the NCAA Tournament, as announced on Sunday night by the NCAA.

The Buffs will travel to Waco, Texas to face James Madison (23-5) in the first round on Friday, Dec. 1 at 3:30 p.m. MT. Baylor, which earned a No. 12 seed with a 23-6 record, will host Miami (Ohio) in the other first round match-up. The Redhawks earned a 23-8 record during the regular season.

The winners of Friday night's matches will meet on Saturday for the right to advance to the NCAA Regional competition in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 8-9

"We are looking forward to playing another match after Thanksgiving, so we are excited about that," head coach Jesse Mahoney said. "We've known for a while that we were going to be in the tournament, but we weren't sure where we were going to go. It's a new season and we are happy to still be playing. We are doing a lot of really good things; we finished the second half of the Pac-12 conference with a 7-3 record and had some big wins. Offensively I think we are peaking and defensively we are getting better."

CU finished the regular season with an overall record of 22-9 and finished tied for fifth in the Pac-12 (12-8). The 22 wins this season ties the fourth most in school history, which has been done six times now.

The Pac-12 Conference had nine teams qualify for the tournament, the most by any conference. The other teams to qualify are Oregon, Oregon State, Southern California, Stanford, UCLA, Utah, Washington, Washington State.

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