NCAA men's volleyball tournament

For the championship tournament for NCAA Division III men's volleyball, see NCAA Division III men's volleyball tournament.

NCAA men's volleyball tournament

Sport	College indoor volleyball
Founded	1970
No. of teams	7
Country	United States
Most recent champion(s)	Hawaii
Most titles	UCLA (19)
TV partner(s)	ESPN2
Official website	NCAA.com

The NCAA men's volleyball tournament, officially titled the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, is an annual competition that determines the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship in American college men's volleyball. It had been the only NCAA championship in the sport from 1970 until 2012, when the NCAA launched a Division III championship.

Unlike most NCAA sports, men's volleyball uses a modified version of the National Collegiate championship format, which means Division I and Division II teams compete against each other in the same tournament.

In the past, schools from the Pacific Coast region have dominated this sport, in particular UCLA with coach Al Scates leading the program to 19 NCAA titles (more than any other coach).

Competition structure

Main article: List of NCAA men's volleyball programs

Before the 2011–12 school year (2012 championship), men's volleyball did not have an official divisional structure; even now, that structure is truncated. The National Collegiate Championship remains as the NCAA's top-level championship, but Division III members now have their own championship event.

With the introduction of an official Division III championship, schools in that division are no longer eligible for the National Collegiate Championship. The last exception was Rutgers–Newark, whose men's volleyball program had been a grandfathered scholarship program, and could compete for the National Collegiate Championship through 2014. Rutgers–Newark completed a transition to Division III men's volleyball at the end of that season, and joined the D-III Continental Volleyball Conference effective with the 2015 season.

There are three general regions for men's volleyball: "West", "Midwest", and "East". As of the next NCAA men's volleyball season in 2023, five "major conferences", defined here as leagues that include full members of Division I, represent these regions. The three "traditional" major conferences are the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA), and Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA). In the 2018 season, the ranks of "major" conferences expanded to include the Big West Conference, the first Division I all-sports conference ever to sponsor men's volleyball. The Northeast Conference (NEC) becomes the second D-I all-sports conference to sponsor men's volleyball in the 2023 season. As of the most recent NCAA men's volleyball season in 2022, two Division II conferences sponsor men's volleyball at the National Collegiate level. Conference Carolinas (CC) was the first NCAA conference ever to sponsor men's volleyball as a scholarship sport, having launched its men's volleyball league in the 2012 season. The 2021 season was to have been the first for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), with six men's volleyball members, but the conference chose not to compete in that season due to COVID-19 issues. CC has had an automatic berth in the National Collegiate championship since the 2014 season, and the Big West received an automatic berth upon the creation of its men's volleyball league. The SIAC will not be eligible for an automatic berth until the 2024 season, and the NEC until 2025 (assuming that at least six inaugural men's volleyball members of each league continue to play in their respective conferences). Members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), a separate athletics governing body whose members are primarily smaller institutions, regularly play matches against NCAA teams.

Because of the historic lack of an official divisional structure in men's volleyball, four of the five major conferences have members that normally compete in Division II. Before the creation of the Division III national championship, the EIVA had several Division III members, but all of those schools now compete in D-III men's volleyball. The Big West became the first men's volleyball conference to consist entirely of D-I members in the 2021 season; this immediately followed UC San Diego, previously a Big West affiliate in men's volleyball (as well as women's water polo), starting its transition to Division I and fully joining the Big West. The NEC initially announced that it would launch its men's volleyball league in the 2023 season with five full D-I members and transitional D-I member Merrimack, but later announced that it would add Daemen and D'Youville, D-II members that had previously played as National Collegiate independents, as associate members effective with its first season in 2023.

Through the 2013 tournament, each of the three major conferences of that day (MPSF, MIVA and EIVA) received an automatic bid to the Final Four, with one additional at-large bid. The remaining bid was an at-large bid that could be awarded to any team in Division I or II (including Rutgers–Newark). Generally, the best team not receiving an automatic bid (usually from one of the three major conferences) received the at-large bid.

Beginning with the 2014 championship, the field expanded to six teams, with the two new teams being the champion of Conference Carolinas and one extra at-large entry. The new format featured two quarterfinal matches involving the four lowest-seeded teams in the field, with the winners joining the two top seeds in the semifinals. Originally, the quarterfinals were to be played at campus sites, with the Final Four at a separate predetermined site, but it was decided instead to have the entire championship tournament at one site.

With the Big West Conference adding men's volleyball for the 2018 season and qualifying for an automatic tournament berth, the championship now involves seven teams. The bottom two tournament seeds contest a "play-in" match; from that point, the tournament format is identical to the one used from 2014 to 2017.

Division I participation

The Pennsylvania State University Nittany Lions men's volleyball team are honored in June 2008 at the White House for United States President George W. Bush for the side's winning the 2008 national championship.

The 2023 men's volleyball season will feature 29 Division I schools, up from 26 in 2022, which had been the sport's highest D-I participation level since 1985. All three of the newest D-I programs are transitioning from D-II to D-I. Merrimack added a new team, and Lindenwood and Queens (NC), which already sponsored the sport, started transitions from D-II to D-I in July 2022. From 1986 to 2021, the number of Division I schools sponsoring men's volleyball fluctuated between 20 and 24 teams. No traditional D-I conferences sponsored men's volleyball until the Big West Conference added the sport for the 2018 season. The Big West became the first NCAA men's volleyball league to consist entirely of D-I members when UC San Diego, which was one of the six charter members of Big West men's volleyball, began a transition to D-I upon joining the Big West full-time in July 2020. Of the other four major conferences, the only all-sports league is the Northeast Conference (NEC), which starts men's volleyball play in the 2023 season with six full conference members and two D-II members as single-sport associates. The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) and Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) are volleyball-specific conferences, while the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a multi-sport conference of schools whose primary conferences do not sponsor its ten sports. In addition to the 29 D-I schools, 31 Division II schools are expected to compete in D-I volleyball during the 2023 season:

• Charleston (WV) competes in the EIVA.
• Lewis, McKendree, and Quincy compete in the MIVA.
• Concordia–Irvine has been an MPSF men's volleyball member since the 2018 season.
• Daemen and D'Youville, which had previously competed as men's volleyball independents, will become single-sport NEC members for the conference's first men's volleyball season in 2023.
• Conference Carolinas, the first all-sports conference in either Division I or II to sponsor men's volleyball, currently has 8 competing teams.
• The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was to start men's volleyball competition in 2021 with 6 newly launched teams, making those schools the first historically black institutions to sponsor varsity men's volleyball. The SIAC chose not to compete in 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns, delaying the launch of men's volleyball to the 2022 season. During the 2021–22 offseason, the SIAC men's volleyball roster lost one of its intended 6 members when Paine left the NCAA, but kept its membership at 6 with the addition of men's volleyball by incoming SIAC member Edward Waters.
• Eleven D-II schools compete as men's volleyball independents. Three of these are campuses of the University of Puerto Rico. Of the remaining independents, only Coker and Limestone had sponsored the sport before the 2016 season. The others are Alderson Broaddus (2016), Lincoln Memorial (2017), Tusculum (2020), American International, Maryville (MO) (both 2022), and Missouri S&T (2023).

Two schools, one each in Division I and Division II, are launching National Collegiate men's volleyball programs in the 2023 season.

• Transitional D-I member Merrimack will be one of eight inaugural members of the NEC men's volleyball league.
• Missouri S&T, a full member of the D-II Great Lakes Valley Conference, is tentatively competing as an independent. In the 2021–22 school year, the GLVC had five men's volleyball schools; the launch of the S&T program will maintain the conference's level of men's volleyball sponsorship after Lindenwood's July 2022 departure for the Ohio Valley Conference (which sponsors volleyball only for women).

Division II does not have a separate national championship, and neither Division I nor II has a sufficient number of teams to sponsor a national championship without the other.

Champions

NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship
Year	Site (Host)	Host Arena		Final				Third Place Final / Other participants
				Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1970 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (24–1) 1	3–0	Long Beach State		UC Santa Barbara	2–0	Ball State
1971 Details				UCLA (29–1) 2	3–2	UC Santa Barbara		Ball State	2–0	Springfield
1972 Details	Muncie, Indiana (Ball State)	Irving Gymnasium		UCLA (27–7) 3	3–2	San Diego State		Ball State	2–0	UC Santa Barbara
1973 Details	San Diego (San Diego State)	Peterson Gym		San Diego State (21–5)	3–1	Long Beach State		Ball State	2–0	Army
1974 Details	Santa Barbara, California (UCSB)	Robertson Gymnasium		UCLA (30–5) 4	3–2	UC Santa Barbara		Ball State	2–1	Springfield
1975 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (27–8) 5	3–1	UC Santa Barbara		Ohio State	2–0	Yale
1976 Details	Muncie, Indiana (Ball State)	Irving Gymnasium		UCLA (15–2) 6	3–0	Pepperdine		Ohio State	2–0	Springfield
1977 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		USC (18–1) 1	3–1	Ohio State		Pepperdine	2–0	Rutgers–Newark
1978 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	St. John Arena		Pepperdine (21–4) 1	3–2	UCLA		Ohio State	2–0	Rutgers–Newark
1979 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (30–0) 7	3–1	USC		Rutgers–Newark	3–2	Ball State
1980 Details	Muncie, Indiana (Ball State)	Irving Gymnasium		USC (22–6) 2	3–1	UCLA		Ohio State	3–0	Rutgers–Newark
1981 Details	Santa Barbara, California (UCSB)	UCSB Events Center		UCLA (32–3) 8	3–2	USC		Penn State	3–1	Ohio State
1982 Details	University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State)	Rec Hall		UCLA (29–0) 9	3–0	Penn State		USC	2–1	Ohio State
1983 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	St. John Arena		UCLA (27–4) 10	3–0	Pepperdine		Ohio State	3–1	Penn State
1984 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (38–0) 11	3–1	Pepperdine		George Mason	3–0	Ball State
1985 Details				Pepperdine (25–2) 2	3–2	USC		George Mason	3–0	Ball State
1986 Details	University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State)	Rec Hall		Pepperdine (22–7) 3	3–2	USC		Penn State	3–0	Ohio State
1987 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (28–3) 12	3–0	USC		Penn State	3–0	Ohio State
1988 Details	Fort Wayne, Indiana (IPFW)	ACWMC		USC (34–4) 3	3–2	UC Santa Barbara		Ball State	3–1	George Mason
1989 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (29–5) 13	3–1	Stanford		Penn State	3–0	Ball State
1990 Details	Fairfax, Virginia (George Mason)	Patriot Center		USC (26–7) 4	3–1	Long Beach State		Ball State	3–1	Rutgers–Newark
1991 Details	Honolulu, HI (Hawaii)	Neal S. Blaisdell Center		Long Beach State (31–4) 1	3–1	USC		IPFW	3–1	Penn State
1992 Details	Muncie, Indiana (Ball State)	John E. Worthen Arena		Pepperdine (24–4) 4	3–0	Stanford		Penn State	3–0	IPFW
1993 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (24–3) 14	3–0	Cal State Northridge		Penn State	3–2	Ohio State
1994 Details	Fort Wayne, Indiana (IPFW)	ACWMC		Penn State (26–3) 1	3–2	UCLA		Ball State	3–0	IPFW
1995 Details	Springfield, Massachusetts (Springfield)	Springfield Civic Center		UCLA (31–1) 15	3–0	Penn State		Ball State	3–1	Hawaii
1996 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UCLA (26–5) 16	3–2	Hawaii		Lewis and Penn State
1997 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	St. John Arena		Stanford (27–4) 1	3–2	UCLA		Ball State and Penn State
1998 Details	Honolulu, HI (Hawaii)	Stan Sheriff Center		UCLA (28–4) 17	3–0	Pepperdine		Lewis and Princeton
1999 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		BYU (30–1) 1	3–0	Long Beach State		IPFW and Penn State
2000 Details	Fort Wayne, Indiana (IPFW)	ACWMC		UCLA (29–5) 18	3–0	Ohio State		Penn State and Pepperdine
2001 Details	Long Beach, California (Long Beach State)	The Pyramid		BYU (23–4) 2	3–0	UCLA		Ohio State and Penn State
2002 Details	University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State)	Rec Hall		Hawaii (24–8)†	3–1	Pepperdine		Ball State and Penn State
2003 Details	Long Beach, California (Long Beach State)	The Pyramid		Lewis (29–6)†	3–2	BYU		Penn State and Pepperdine
2004 Details	Honolulu, HI (Hawaii)	Stan Sheriff Center		BYU (29–4) 3	3–2	Long Beach State		Lewis and Penn State
2005 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		Pepperdine (25–2) 5	3–2	UCLA		Ohio State and Penn State
2006 Details	University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State)	Rec Hall		UCLA (26–12) 19	3–0	Penn State		UC Irvine and IPFW
2007 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	St. John Arena		UC Irvine (29–5) 1	3–1	IPFW		Penn State and Pepperdine
2008 Details	Irvine, California (UC Irvine)	Bren Events Center		Penn State (30–1) 2	3–1	Pepperdine		Long Beach State and Ohio State
2009 Details	Provo, Utah (BYU)	Smith Fieldhouse		UC Irvine (27–5)	3–2	USC (21–11)		Ohio State and Penn State
2010 Details	Stanford, California (Stanford)	Maples Pavilion		Stanford (24–6) 2	3–0	Penn State (24–8)		Cal State Northridge and Ohio State
2011 Details	University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State)	Rec Hall		Ohio State (26–6)	3–2	UC Santa Barbara (18–15)		Penn State and USC
2012 Details	Los Angeles (USC)	Galen Center		UC Irvine (26–5) 3	3–0	USC (24–6)		Lewis and Penn State
2013 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		UC Irvine (25–7) 4	3–0	BYU (26–5)		Loyola Chicago and Penn State
2014 Details	Chicago (Loyola Chicago)	Gentile Arena		Loyola Chicago (29–1) 1	3-1	Stanford (24–9)		3rd–BYU and Penn State 5th–Lewis and Erskine
2015 Details	Stanford, California (Stanford)	Maples Pavilion		Loyola Chicago (28–2) 2	3–2	Lewis (27–4)		3rd–UC Irvine and Penn State 5th–Hawaii and Pfeiffer
2016 Details	University Park, Pennsylvania (Penn State)	Rec Hall		Ohio State (31–2) 2	3–0	BYU (27–4)		3rd–UCLA and Long Beach State 5th–Erskine and George Mason
2017 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	St. John Arena		Ohio State (32–2) 3	3–0	BYU (26–5)		3rd–Hawaii and Long Beach State 5th–Barton and Penn State
2018 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		Long Beach State (28–1) 2	3–2	UCLA (26–8)		3rd-Ohio St. and BYU 5th-UC Irvine and Harvard
2019 Details	Long Beach, California (Long Beach State)	The Pyramid		Long Beach State (28–2) 3	3–1	Hawaii (28–3)		3rd-Pepperdine and Lewis 5th-Princeton and USC
2020 Details	Fairfax, Virginia (George Mason)	EagleBank Arena		Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	Covelli Center		Hawai'i (17–1) 1	3–0	BYU (20–4)		3rd- Lewis and UC Santa Barbara 5th- Penn State and Pepperdine
2022 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion		Hawai'i (27–5) 2	3–0	Long Beach State (21–6)		3rd - UCLA and Ball State 5th - Pepperdine and North Greenville
2023 Details	Fairfax, Virginia (George Mason)	EagleBank Arena
2024 Details	Long Beach, California (Long Beach State)	The Pyramid
2025 Details	Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State)	Covelli Center
2026 Details	Los Angeles (UCLA)	Pauley Pavilion

†Vacated due to NCAA violations

Team titles

School	#	Years won
UCLA	19	1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006
Pepperdine	5	1978, 1985, 1986, 1992, 2005
USC	4	1977, 1980, 1988, 1990
UC Irvine		2007, 2009, 2012, 2013
Ohio State	3	2011, 2016, 2017
BYU		1999, 2001, 2004
Long Beach State		1991, 2018, 2019
Penn State	2	1994, 2008
Stanford		1997, 2010
Loyola Chicago		2014, 2015
Hawaii		2002, 2021, 2022
San Diego State	1	1973
Lewis	0	2003

San Diego
State

Stanford

Long
Beach
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USC

UC Irvine

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National Championships by school (California):
19, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Hawaii

Penn
State

Loyola

Ohio
State

BYU

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National Championships by school (other states): 3, 2, 1

All-time record

as of end of 2022 tournament

• school indicates schools belong to Division II, school indicates schools belong to Division III. (Men's championship is for both Division I and II.)
• school indicates school program and school itself becomes defunct.
• School indicates they have win at least one championship.
• Other bold indicates most in respective column.

Team	App	C	F	3	4	GP	W	L	Pct	SF	SA	SR	Notes
Army	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	5	.000	0	11	0.000
Ball State	16	0	0	11	5	41	11	30	.268	38	85	0.447
Barton	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.000	1	6	0.167
Belmont Abbey	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	0	3	0.000
BYU	18	3	5	2	0	19	12	7	.632	41	28	1.464	First champion in first appearance.
Cal State Northridge	2	0	1	1	0	3	1	2	.333	3	6	0.500
Erskine	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.000	0	6	0.000
George Mason	4	0	0	2	1	7	2	5	.286	8	15	0.533
Harvard	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	1	3	0.333
Hawaii	7	2	2	1	1	14	8	6	.571	31	24	1.292	Two consecutive champion, 2002 win and record were vacated.
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne	6	0	1	3	2	10	2	8	.200	12	26	0.461	Now Purdue University Fort Wayne.
King	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	0	3	0.000
Lewis	8	0	1	6	0	11	3	8	.273	17	26	0.654	2003 win and record were vacated.
Long Beach State	12	3	6	3	0	28	18	10	.643	55	41	1.341
Loyola University Chicago	3	2	0	1	0	6	5	1	.833	15	8	1.875
North Greenville	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	.500	3	3	1.000
Ohio State	21	3	2	11	5	39	16	23	.410	59	78	0.756
Penn State	32	2	4	22	2	50	18	32	.360	72	112	0.643
Pepperdine	18	5	6	5	0	31	18	13	.581	63	54	1.167
Pfeiffer	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	0	3	0.000
Princeton	3	0	0	1	0	4	1	3	.250	5	10	0.500
Rutgers-Newark	5	0	0	1	4	10	1	9	.100	4	28	0.143
San Diego State	2	1	1	0	0	10	7	3	.700	20	12	1.667
Springfield	3	0	0	0	3	9	0	9	.000	1	22	0.045
Stanford	5	2	3	0	0	11	8	3	.727	26	16	1.625
UC Irvine	7	4	0	2	0	11	8	3	.727	28	14	2.000
UCLA	28	19	7	2	0	64	55	9	.859	172	53	3.245	First champion, four consecutive champion, three consecutive champion (twice), two consecutive champion
UCSB	8	0	5	2	1	25	11	14	.440	39	38	1.026
USC	15	4	8	2	0	28	17	11	.607	63	44	1.432
Yale	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.000	0	5	0.000

Past tournaments

Historically, California-based universities have dominated the men's volleyball national championship; Loyola Chicago, Penn State, Ohio State, BYU, and Hawaii are the only non-California universities to have won the National Collegiate championship; Lewis also won the championship tournament, but had their victory vacated due to NCAA rules violations. Only seven non-California universities have participated in the National Collegiate championship match (Loyola, BYU, Penn State, Ohio State, IPFW, Hawaii, and Lewis), although other universities such as Princeton and Ball State have participated in the final four. Only five finals have involved two non-California schools: the 2003 final, when Lewis defeated BYU but had its win vacated; the 2015 final, in which Loyola defeated Lewis; the 2016 and 2017 finals, when Ohio State defeated BYU; and the 2021 final, when Hawaii defeated BYU.

Hawaii, UCLA, Southern California, Penn State, Stanford, and Long Beach State are the only schools in Division I to have won an NCAA national championship in both men and women's volleyball. In addition, Stanford (1996–97) and Penn State (2007–08) are the only universities whose men and women's volleyball programs won the national championship in the same academic year. The 2016 championship tournament took place from May 3–7 at Rec Hall on the campus of Penn State.

2011

• May 5, 2011 – UC Santa Barbara def. Southern California, 29–27, 24–26, 25–15, 25–18; Ohio State def. Penn St., 25–18, 24–26, 25–22, 25-23
• May 7, 2011 – Ohio State def. UC Santa Barbara, 20–25, 25–20, 25–19, 22–25, 15-9

	Semi-Finals Thursday, May 5, 2011 Rec Hall, University Park, Pennsylvania									Championship Saturday, May 7, 2011 Rec Hall, University Park, Pennsylvania
	1	Southern California (1)	27	26	15	18
	4	UC Santa Barbara (3)	29	24	25	25
										4	UC Santa Barbara (2)	25	20	19	25	9
										3	Ohio State (3)	20	25	25	22	15
	2	Penn State (1)	18	26	22	23
	3	Ohio State (3)	25	24	25	25

2012

• April 29, 2012 – Selections
• May 3, 2012 – Semifinals (6 p.m./8 p.m. PT) at Galen Center, Los Angeles, California: #1 seed UC Irvine defeated #4 seed Penn State 3-1 (18-25, 25–18, 25–15, 25–19); #2 seed Southern California defeated #3 seed Lewis 3-1 (25-18, 25–12, 18–25, 27–25)
• May 5, 2012 – Championship (7 p.m. PT) at Galen Center, Los Angeles, California: UC Irvine defeated Southern California 3-0 (25-22, 34–32, 26–24); 9,612 attended (record)

	Semi-Finals Thursday, May 3, 2012 Galen Center, Los Angeles, CA									Championship Saturday, May 5, 2012 Galen Center, Los Angeles, CA
	1	UC Irvine (3)	18	25	25	25
	4	Penn State (1)	25	18	15	19
										1	UC Irvine (3)	25	34	26
										2	Southern California (0)	22	32	24
	2	Southern California (3)	25	25	18	27
	3	Lewis (1)	18	12	25	25

2013

• April 28, 2013 – Selections
• May 2, 2013 – Semifinals (6 p.m./8 p.m. PT) at Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, NCAA.com: No. 2-seed UC Irvine defeated No. 3-seed Loyola-Chicago 3–0; No. 1-seed BYU defeated No. 4-seed Penn State 3–0
• May 4, 2013 – National Championship (6 p.m. PT) at Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, ESPNU: UC Irvine defeated BYU 3-0 ( 25–23, 25–22, 26–24)
• May 4, 2013 – Game Notes: UC Irvine head coach David Kniffin became just the second coach in NCAA men's volleyball history to win a national title in his first season; 6,295 attended the title game
• May 4, 2013 – All-Tournament Team: Connor Hughes, who had 11 kills in the title game for UC Irvine (Most Outstanding Player); Chris Austin, UC Irvine; Michael Brinkley, UC Irvine Collin Mehring, UC Irvine; Kevin Tillie, UC Irvine; Ben Patch, BYU; Taylor Sander, BYU

	Semi-Finals Thursday, May 2, 2013 Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles									Championship Saturday, May 4, 2013 Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles
	1	Brigham Young (3)	25	25	25
	4	Penn State (0)	21	16	22
										1	Brigham Young (0)	23	22	24
										2	UC Irvine (3)	25	25	26
	2	UC Irvine (3)	26	25	29
	3	Loyola University Chicago (0)	24	18	27

2014

• The semifinals and finals 2014 tournament were held in the Gentile Arena in Chicago on the campus of Loyola University Chicago. Two quarterfinal "play-in" matches were held at the Gentile Arena two days prior to the national semifinals, as the 2014 tournament expanded to six teams for the first time ever. A second at-large was added to the field, and the champions of the newly eligible Conference Carolinas men's volleyball division got an automatic qualification. The six teams were seeded according to the same methods used to seed the teams in previous tournaments, with the top two seeds receiving byes into the Final Four, and the third seed facing the sixth seed and the fourth seed facing the fifth seed in the quarterfinals.
• Apr. 29: Quarterfinals (#3 vs. #6 seed; #4 vs. #5 seed)
• May 1: Semifinals (#1 vs. #4-#5 winner; #2 vs. #3-#6 winner)
• May 3: NCAA Championship

	Quarterfinals Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Gentile Arena, Chicago									Semifinals Thursday, May 1, 2014 Gentile Arena, Chicago									Championship Saturday, May 3, 2014 Gentile Arena, Chicago
										1	Loyola (Chicago) (3)	25	22	25	18	15
	4	Lewis (1)	25	25	23	19				5	Penn State (2)	20	25	21	25	11
	5	Penn State (3)	27	19	25	25													1	Loyola (Chicago) (3)	25	19	25	25
																			3	Stanford (1)	17	25	19	15
										2	BYU (2)	18	25	25	27	12
	3	Stanford (3)	25	25	25					3	Stanford (3)	25	21	22	29	15
	6	Erskine (0)	14	16	16

2015

• The semifinals and finals of the 2015 tournament were held in the Maples Pavilion on the campus of Stanford University. Two quarterfinal "play-in" matches were held at the Maples Pavilion two days prior to the national semifinals. The six teams were seeded according to the same methods used to seed the four teams in previous tournaments; the top two seeds received byes into the Final Four, while the third seed faced the sixth seed and the fourth seed faced the fifth seed in the quarterfinals.
• May 5: Quarterfinals (#3 vs. #6 seed; #4 vs. #5 seed)
• May 7: Semifinals (#1 vs. #4-#5 winner; #2 vs. #3-#6 winner)
• May 9: NCAA Championship

	Quarterfinals Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Maples Pavilion, Stanford, California									Semifinals Thursday, May 7, 2015 Maples Pavilion, Stanford, California									Championship Saturday, May 9, 2015 Maples Pavilion, Stanford, California
										1	Lewis (3)	25	22	25	25
	4	Hawaii (1)	22	20	25	25				5	Penn State (1)	20	25	16	20
	5	Penn State (3)	25	25	17	27													1	Lewis (2)	25	23	15	27	21
																			3	Loyola (Chicago) (3)	21	25	25	25	23
										2	UC Irvine (0)	22	19	17
	3	Loyola (Chicago) (3)	25	33	25					3	Loyola (Chicago) (3)	25	25	25
	6	Pfeiffer (0)	20	31	15

2016

Main article: 2016 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament

2017

Main article: 2017 NCAA National Collegiate men's volleyball tournament

2018

Main article: 2018 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament

2019

Main article: 2019 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament

2021

Main article: 2021 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament

2022

Main article: 2022 NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament

Broadcasters

Date	Network	Location	Play-by-play announcer	Color analyst(s)	Reporter
1972	ABC	Irving Gymnasium (Muncie, Indiana)	Bill Flemming	Keith Erickson
1973	ABC	Peterson Gymnasium (San Diego)	Keith Jackson	Al Scates
1974	ABC	Robertson Gymnasium (Santa Barbara, California)	Frank Gifford	Don Shondell
1975	ABC	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)
1976	ABC	Irving Gymnasium (Muncie, Indiana)
1977	ABC	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Bob Beattie	Al Scates
1978	ABC	St. John Arena (Columbus, Ohio)	Bruce Jenner	Chris Marlowe
1979	ABC	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Bill Fleming	Chris Marlowe
1980	ABC	Irving Gymnasium (Muncie, Indiana)	Steve Zabriskie	Diana Nyad
1981	ABC	UCSB Events Center (Santa Barbara, California)
1982	CBS	Rec Hall (University Park, Pennsylvania)	John Tesh	Chris Marlowe
1983	CBS	St. John Arena (Columbus, Ohio)	Gary Bender	Chris Marlowe
1984	CBS	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	John Tesh	Chris Marlowe	Cathy Lee Crosby
1985	CBS	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	John Tesh	Chris Marlowe
1986	CBS	Rec Hall (University Park, Pennsylvania)	John Tesh	Chris Marlowe
1987	CBS	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Tim Ryan	Chris Marlowe
1988	CBS	Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (Fort Wayne, Indiana)	Ken Squier	Chris Marlowe
1989	CBS	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)		Chris Marlowe
1990	CBS	Patriot Center (Fairfax, Virginia)	John Tesh	Chris Marlowe
1991	CBS	Neal S. Blaisdell Center (Honolulu)	Verne Lundquist	Chris Marlowe
1992	CBS	John E. Worthen Arena (Muncie, Indiana)		Chris Marlowe	Ron Squire
1993	CBS	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Tim Ryan	Chris Marlowe
1994	CBS	Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (Fort Wayne, Indiana)	Chris Marlowe	Ann Meyers
1995	ESPN2	Springfield Civic Center (Springfield, Massachusetts)	Chris Marlowe	Paul Sunderland
1996	ESPN2	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
1997	ESPN2	St. John Arena (Columbus, Ohio)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
1998	ESPN2	Stan Sheriff Center (Honolulu)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
1999	ESPN2	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
2000	ESPN2	Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (Fort Wayne, Indiana)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
2001	ESPN2	The Pyramid (Long Beach, California)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
2002	ESPN2	Rec Hall (University Park, Pennsylvania)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
2003	ESPN2	The Pyramid (Long Beach, California)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
2004	ESPN2	Stan Sheriff Center (Honolulu)	Chris Marlowe	Heather Cox
2005	ESPN2	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Beth Mowins	Heather Cox
2006	ESPN2	Rec Hall (University Park, Pennsylvania)	Beth Mowins	Heather Cox
2007	ESPN2	St. John Arena (Columbus, Ohio)	Beth Mowins	Karch Kiraly
2008	ESPN2	Bren Events Center (Irvine, California)	Beth Mowins	Karch Kiraly
2009	ESPN2	Smith Fieldhouse (Provo, Utah)	Beth Mowins	Karch Kiraly
2010	ESPN2	Maples Pavilion (Stanford, California)	Justin Kutcher	Karch Kiraly
2011	ESPN2	Rec Hall (University Park, Pennsylvania)	Justin Kutcher	Karch Kiraly
2012	ESPNU	Galen Center (Los Angeles)	Justin Kutcher	Karch Kiraly
2013	ESPNU	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Adam Amin	Karch Kiraly
2014	ESPNU	Gentile Arena (Chicago)	Sam Gore	Dain Blanton
2015	ESPNU	Maples Pavilion (Stanford, California)	Paul Sunderland	Dain Blanton
2016	ESPN2	Rec Hall (University Park, Pennsylvania)	Paul Sunderland	Kevin Barnett
2017	ESPN2	St. John Arena (Columbus, Ohio)	Paul Sunderland	Kevin Barnett
2018	ESPN2	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Paul Sunderland	Kevin Barnett
2019	ESPN2	The Pyramid (Long Beach, California)	Paul Sunderland	Kevin Barnett
2020	Not held because of the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	ESPNU	Covelli Center (Columbus, Ohio)	Paul Sunderland	Kevin Barnett
2022	ESPN2	Pauley Pavilion (Los Angeles)	Paul Sunderland	Kevin Barnett

•  †  Expected announcer, subject to change.

See also

• NCAA Division III men's volleyball tournament
• NAIA Men's Volleyball Championship
• NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
• List of NCAA men's volleyball programs
• Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Volleyball Champions