UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.- No. 2 Penn State Women’s Volleyball hosts No. 6 Creighton in the NCAA Regional Final on Sunday at Rec Hall. The match is scheduled for 8:30 p.m., and will air live on ESPN.
The winner of Sunday’s match earns a trip to Louisville, where the National Semifinal and Championship matches will take place at the KFC Yum! Center. The Nittany Lions and Bluejays enter with identical 32-2 records.
HOW TO FOLLOW
Regional Final | Sunday, Dec. 15
8:30 p.m. | #2 seed Creighton (32-2) vs. #1 seed Penn State (32-2) | Live Stats | ESPN
PARKING
• 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 Final for the 21st time out of a possible 44 NCAA Tournaments.
• It is the first NCAA Regional Final 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.
• Sunday marks Penn State’s first NCAA Regional Final appearance under head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley, who is in her third season as Penn State head coach. The Nittany Lions lost in the Regional Semifinal in each of her first two seasons. It will be the 10th NCAA Tournament match overall with Schumacher-Cawley as head coach. They are 7-2 in the postseason during that time.
PENN STATE NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• Penn State, which has won seven national titles, is 113-36 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Nittany Lions are 72-3 in NCAA Tournament matches played at Rec Hall.
• Penn State has made the National Semifinal 13 times and the National Championship match 10 times.
PENN STATE IN REGIONAL FINAL
• The Nittany Lions are 13-7 all-time in the Regional Final (Round of 8). They have beaten 10 different teams in the round — BYU (3x), Cal (2x), Duke, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Stanford, UCLA, and Wisconsin.
• Penn State will play in the Regional Final for the first time since 2019, when it lost at Stanford in that round for the second-straight year. The Nittany Lions’ last win in the Regional Final came over Michigan State in 2017.
SERIES HISTORY
• Penn State and Creighton have never played each other.
HOW THEY GOT HERE – PENN STATE
• Penn State earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after going 29-2 overall and 19-1 in the Big Ten on its way to its first conference title since 2017.
• The Nittany Lions received one of the four top seeds and the…
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