A handful of teams improved their NCAA tournament outlooks from last week, while others hurt their outlooks, leading to some movement around the country in women's volleyball.
However, despite the shakeup in the AVCA Coaches Poll
, the top four overall seeds and all but one of the top eight overall seeds remained unchanged heading into Week 11 in the latest USA TODAY Sports' NCAA Volleyball Tournament Bracketology.Nebraska and Pitt remain the No. 1 and No. 2 overall seeds after the Cornhuskers improved to 23-0 on the season and moved to No. 1 in the NCAA's RPI Rankings, while the Panthers are firing on all cylinders after their slight hiccup to SMU a few weeks ago as they are victors in their last seven matches.
after Week 10: Updated AVCA Coaches Poll
Tennessee and Michigan State both took hits in their projected national seeds in the projected 64-team field from a week ago after the Vols and Spartans both dropped their two matches last week, with Michigan State dropping a five-set match to Indiana, who ended up losing to unranked Michigan the following day.
Selection Sunday for the NCAA Volleyball Tournament is set for 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 29. As noted by the NCAA website, there are once again 31 automatic conference qualifiers, while the remaining 33 teams in the field will be selected as at-large bids, despite the Pac-12 being back in the fold.
That said, here's USA TODAY Sports' updated projected 64-team field for the NCAA Volleyball Tournament, which takes into account games played through Sunday, Nov. 1:
NCAA Volleyball Tournament Bracketology
* Denotes AQ bid
National Seeds
No. 1 seeds
- Nebraska (23-0, 12-0 Big Ten, RPI No. 1) *
- Pitt (21-1, 11-1 ACC, RPI No. 2)
- Louisville (22-2, 12-0 ACC, RPI No. 4) *
- Florida (19-2, 10-1 SEC, RPI No. 5) *
No. 2 seeds
- Wisconsin (16-6, 10-2 Big Ten, RPI No. 3)
- SMU (18-4, 10-2 ACC, RPI No. 7)
- Kentucky (16-5, 8-3 SEC, RPI No. 6)
- BYU (18-1, 10-0 in Big 12, RPI No. 9) *
No. 3 seeds
- Oregon (19-3, 10-2 Big Ten, RPI No. 8)
- Arizona State (18-4, 9-2 Big 12, RPI No. 10)
- Penn State (17-5, 9-3 Big Ten, RPI No. 11)
- Vanderbilt (17-3, 8-3 SEC, RPI No. 14)
No. 4 seeds
- Tennessee (16-5, 7-4 SEC, RPI No. 16)
- Texas (12-7, 8-3 SEC, RPI No. 13)
- TCU (17-5, 8-3 Big 12, RPI No. 12)
- Washington (17-4, 8-4 Big Ten, RPI No. 15)
No. 5 seeds
- Purdue (14-7, 7-5 Big Ten, RPI No. 20)
- North Carolina (16-4, 11-1 ACC, RPI No. 24)
- Kansas (16-5, 9-2 Big 12, RPI No. 17)
- Texas A&M (14-9, 7-4 SEC, RPI No. 22)
No. 6 seeds
- Minnesota (14-6, 8-4 Big Ten, RPI No. 18)
- Baylor (13-7, 5-5 Big 12, RPI No. 19)
- Colorado (16-5, 7-4 Big 12, RPI No. 31)
- Western Kentucky (18-6, 12-0 Conference USA, RPI No. 21) *
No. 7 seeds
- Indiana (13-8, 6-6 Big Ten, RPI No. 25)
- Stanford (14-8, 7-5 ACC, RPI No. 26)
- Illinois (16-7, 8-4 Big Ten, RPI No. 28)
- Michigan State (17-5, 7-5 Big Ten, RPI No. 32)
No. 8 seeds
- UCLA (15-8, 6-6 Big Ten, RPI No. 23)
- Missouri (14-9, 7-4 SEC, RPI No. 30)
- Colorado State (18-3, 11-0 Pac-12, RPI No. 29)
- Marquette (15-7, 10-2 Big East, RPI No. 35) *
At-Large Selections
Conference AQs ordered first; then at-large selections
- UMBC (13-5, 7-0 America East, RPI No. 111) *
- Florida Atlantic (16-7, 9-1 American Conference, RPI No. 95) *
- Lipscomb (16-5, 9-2 ASUN, RPI No. 47) *
- Dayton (19-8, 11-3 Atlantic 10, RPI No. 34) *
- Utah Tech (19-3, 12-0 Big Sky, RPI No. 67) *
- Cal Poly (16-6, 12-0 Big West, RPI No. 80) *
- High Point (14-6, 8-1 Big South, RPI No. 48) *
- Charleston (20-3, 11-1 CAA, RPI No. 71) *
- Wright State (17-5, 12-0 Horizon League, RPI No. 50) *
- Cornell (13-6, 9-1 Ivy League, RPI No. 94) *
- Toledo (18-4, 10-2 MAC, RPI No. 27) *
- Fairfield (20-5, 14-0 METRO, RPI No. 115) *
- Coppin State (19-8, 10-1 MEAC, RPI No. 218) *
- Northern Iowa (18-5, 12-0 Missouri Valley, RPI No. 70) *
- Hawaii (19-4, 11-1 Mountain West, RPI No. 36) *
- LIU (14-7, 10-0 NEC, RPI No. 204) *
- Southeast Missouri (18-7, 11-1 in Ohio Valley, RPI No. 116) *
- American (17-5, 12-1 Patriot, RPI No. 58) *
- Wofford (19-7, 12-2 SoCon, RPI No. 114) *
- Southeastern Louisiana (13-12, 10-2 Southland, RPI No. 249) *
- South Dakota (16-5, 9-1 Summit League, RPI No. 45) *
- Florida A&M (16-9, 11-1 SWAC, RPI No. 261) *
- Georgia Southern (17-7, 9-1 Sun Belt, RPI No. 59) *
- Eastern Kentucky (22-2, 12-0 UAC, RPI No. 38) *
- Pepperdine (18-4, 10-1 WCC, RPI No. 40) *
- Bowling Green (18-5, 10-2 MAC, RPI No. 42)
- Creighton (15-9, 10-2 Big East, RPI No. 33)
- Michigan (14-9, 5-7 Big Ten, RPI No. 39)
- Loyola Marymount (CA) (19-3, 10-1 WCC, RPI No. 43)
- Ball State (16-7, 7-5 MAC, RPI No. 44)
- Georgia Tech (14-8, 6-6 ACC, RPI No. 41)
- Utah (12-9, 4-6 Big 12, RPI No. 37)
- DePaul (16-7, 8-2 Big East, RPI No. 49)
Last Four In
- Ball State (16-7, 7-5 MAC, RPI No. 44)
- Georgia Tech (14-8, 6-6 ACC, RPI No. 41)
- Utah (12-9, 4-6 Big 12, RPI No. 37)
- DePaul (16-7, 8-2 Big East, RPI No. 49)
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NCAA volleyball bracketology: Who's in 64-team tournament field? Version 2.0
