NCAA Women’s Volleyball Final 4 Promoted to ESPN Airing

  0 Braden Keith | December 15th, 2016 | Big 12, Big Ten, College - Women's Indoor, News, Pac 12

The national semifinals of the 2016 Women’s NCAA Division I Volleyball Tournament (Final 4, if it were basketball) have been promoted to the main ESPN network on Thursday.

Stanford and Minnesota will play at 7PM Eastern Time, while Nebraska and Texas will play at 9:30PM Eastern Time. The winners will show down on Saturday evening for the NCAA  title.

The games are being played at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. While not formally a part of Ohio State’s campus, Ohio State will be the official hosts.

For basketball games, which have a similar configuration to volleyball, the stadium seats 19,500 fans. That gives the semi-f-inals and finals games a chance at breaking the all-time NCAA attendance record of 17,561. That record was set in last year’s NCAA final between Nebraska and Texas at Omaha’s CenturyLink Center – a sell-out crowd for that facility. The Semi-final game of that tournament between Nebraska and Kansas, meaning the two most local superpowers of volleyball, had the previous record at 17,551, which was also a theoretical sell-out.

This year’s tournament won’t have any home team playing, though the tournament includes teams that always draw national interest, both in volleyball and outside of it. Texas and Stanford are two of the best-known universities in the country, while Minnesota and Nebraska volleyball are two legendary programs with massive followings.

Distances from Nationwide arena for each of the 4 schools competing in Columnbus (according to Google Maps driving distance’s shortest route):

  • Minnesota – 734 miles
  • Nebraska – 817 miles
  • Texas – 1,240 miles
  • Stanford – 2,485 miles

 

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of VolleyMob.com. Braden's first foray into sports journalism came in 2010, when he launched a swimming website called The Swimmers' Circle. Two years later, he joined SwimSwam.com as a co-founder. Long huge fans of volleyball, when Braden and the SwimSwam partners sought an opportunity to …

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