UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.- No. 2 Penn State Women’s Volleyball is set to host an NCAA Regional at Rec Hall for the first time as it welcomes Marquette to Happy Valley for a Regional Semifinal match Friday. The match will start thirty minutes following the completion of the first contest at Rec Hall between Creighton and Texas at 1 p.m..
The winners of the two matches on Friday will meet in the Regional Final at Rec Hall on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. Both matches Friday will air on ESPN2, while the Sunday night final will air on ESPN.
HOW TO FOLLOW
Regional Semifinal | Friday, Dec. 13
1 p.m. | #3 seed Texas (20-6, 13-3 SEC) vs. #2 seed Creighton (31-2, 18-0 Big East) | Live Stats | ESPN2
30 minutes following | #5 seed Marquette (25-8, 16-2 Big East) at #1 seed Penn State (31-2, 19-1 B1G) | Live Stats | ESPN2
Regional Final | Sunday, Dec. 15
8:30 p.m. | Winner of Texas/Creighton vs. Winner of Marquette/Penn State
PARKING ADVISORY
• PARKING INFO – Please see this link for important parking information related to this weekend’s event
OPENING NOTES
• Penn State is set to compete in the NCAA Regional Semifinal for the 36th time out of a possible 44 NCAA Tournaments.
• It is the first NCAA Regional to be held at Rec Hall since 2017.
• The Nittany Lions are the only program to compete in all 44 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Tournaments.
• Friday marks Penn State’s third NCAA Regional Semifinal appearance under head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley, who is in her third season as Penn State head coach. It will be the ninth NCAA Tournament match overall with Schumacher-Cawley as head coach. They are 6-2 in the postseason during that time.
PENN STATE NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• Penn State, which has won seven national titles, is 112-35 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Nittany Lions are 71-3 in NCAA Tournament matches played at Rec Hall.
• Penn State has made the National Semifinals 13 times and the National Championship match 10 times.
PENN STATE IN REGIONAL SEMIFINAL
• The Nittany Lions are 20-15 all-time in the Regional Semifinal (Round of 16). They have beaten 19 different teams in the round.
• Counting this season, Penn State has played in the Regional Semifinal in 21 of the last 22 years.
SERIES HISTORY
• Penn State is 1-0 in the all-time series with Marquette, winning the only meeting between the teams in 2013. The Nittany Lions won that match 3-0 at the FGCU Hilton Garden Inn in Fort Myers, Florida.
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