1991 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament

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1991 NCAA women's Division Ivolleyball tournament
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1991 NCAA Final Four logo
Champions UCLA (3rd NCAA (6th national) title)
Runner-up Long Beach State (2nd NCAA (6th national) title match)
Semifinalists
Winning coach Andy Banachowski (3rd title)
Most outstanding player
  • Natalie Williams (UCLA)
  • Antoinette White (Long Beach State)
Final Four All-Tournament Team
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The 1991 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began with 32 teams and ended on December 21, 1991, when UCLA defeated Long Beach State 3 games to 2 in the NCAA championship match.

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UCLA won the program's third NCAA title and successfully defended their 1990 NCAA title by defeating Long Beach State in five games. After losing the first two games by the scores of 15-12, 15-13, UCLA completed off a stunning comeback to take the next three games, 15-12, 15-6, 15-11 to win it all. [1]

UCLA's comeback was one of the biggest in NCAA history; only one other team had ever rallied from two games to 0 to win in five games in the NCAA national championship (and did not again until 2009). UCLA finished their season 31-5.

The 1991 Final Four was held on the campus of UCLA at Pauley Pavilion.

Records

SeedSchoolConferenceBerth TypeRecord
Bowling Green Mid-American Automatic29-4
BYU WAC Automatic26-4
Colorado Big Eight At-large25-9
Duke ACC Automatic25-6
Florida SEC Auto (shared)33-4
Fresno State Big West At-large21-12
Georgia SEC At-large28-7
Hawaii Big West At-large24-4
Houston Southwest At-large20-11
Illinois Big Ten At-large19-9
Long Beach State Big West Automatic32-1
Louisville Metro Automatic28-7
LSU SEC Auto (shared)32-1
Montana Big Sky Automatic26-3
Nebraska Big Eight Automatic25-4
New Mexico WAC At-large22-5
Northern Iowa Missouri Valley Automatic23-7
Ohio State Big Ten Automatic27-3
Pacific Big West At-large23-5
Penn State Big Ten At-large25-5
Pepperdine West Coast Automatic23-7
Pittsburgh Big East Automatic28-8
Rhode Island Atlantic 10 Automatic19-11
Southwest Texas State Southland Automatic21-15
Stanford Pac-12 Automatic28-1
Texas Southwest Automatic19-9
Texas Tech Southwest At-large25-5
UC Santa Barbara Big West At-large21-9
UCLA Pac-10 At-large26-5
USC Pac-10 At-large22-7
Washington State Pac-10 At-large19-9
Wisconsin Big Ten At-large22-9

Brackets

West regional

First round Regional semifinal Regional Final
         
  Stanford 3
  Rhode Island 0
 Stanford3
 Southern California 2
  Southern California 3
  BYU 1
 Stanford 0
 UCLA3
  UCLA 3
  Pepperdine 0
 UCLA3
 New Mexico 0
  Washington State 1
  New Mexico 3

Mideast regional

First round Regional semifinal Regional Final
         
  Ohio State 3
  Pittsburgh 1
 Ohio State3
 Penn State 2
  Colorado 2
  Penn State 3
 Ohio State3
 Nebraska 1
  Bowling Green 0
  Wisconsin 3
 Wisconsin 0
 Nebraska3
  Illinois 0
  Nebraska 3

South regional

First round Regional semifinal Regional Final
         
  LSU 3
  Houston 0
 LSU3
 Texas Tech 0
  Texas Tech 3
  Georgia 0
 LSU3
 Florida 1
  Texas 3
  Duke 0
 Texas 1
 Florida3
  Louisville 0
  Florida 3

Northwest regional

First round Regional semifinal Regional Final
         
  Hawaiʻi 3
  SW Texas State 0
 Hawaiʻi3
 Pacific 0
  Montana 0
  Pacific 3
 Hawaiʻi 1
 Long Beach State3
  UCSB 3
  Fresno State 0
 UCSB 0
 Long Beach State3
  Northern Iowa 0
  Long Beach State 3

Final Four - Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, California

National semifinals National championship
      
UCLA3
Ohio State 0
UCLA3
Long Beach State 2
LSU 1
Long Beach State3

See also

References

  1. "UCLA wins NCAA volleyball title". Austin American Statesman. December 22, 1991. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved March 24, 2009.