1996 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament explained

Year:	1996
Titlecount:	3rd
Runnerup:	Hawaiʻi
Gamecount:	5th NCAA (9th national)
Semifinal1:	Nebraska
Finalfourcount:	5th
Semifinal2:	Florida
Finalfourcount2:	3rd
Coach:	Don Shaw
Coachcount:	3rd
Mopteam:	(Stanford)

The 1996 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began with 48 teams and ended on December 21, 1996, when Stanford defeated Hawaiʻi 3 games to 0 in the NCAA championship match.

Stanford's win over Hawaiʻi for the title was, and remains, one of the most lopsided finals in NCAA championship history. Stanford won 15-7, 15-3, 15-5. The 15 points scored by Hawaiʻi was the lowest in an NCAA championship match since the NCAA tournament began in 1981.^[1]

Play-in games

Records

valign=top	Pacific Regional Seed School Conference Berth Type Record Cal State Northridge Big Sky Automatic 22-10 Colorado State WAC At-large 22-10 Houston Conference USA At-large 24-7 Kansas State Big 12 At-large 25-8 Loyola Marymount West Coast Automatic 25-2 Northern Illinois Midwestern Collegiate Automatic 27-7 South Florida Conference USA Automatic 27-4 Southeast Missouri State Ohio Valley Automatic 28-7 Stanford Pac-10 Automatic 26-2 UC Santa Barbara Big West At-large 22-8 USC Pac-10 At-large 19-8 Washington State Pac-10 At-large 25-5	valign=top	East Regional Seed School Conference Berth Type Record Arkansas SEC At-large 24-10 Brown Ivy League Automatic 20-13 Coastal Carolina Big South Automatic 27-6 Colgate Patriot Automatic 28-6 George Mason CAA Automatic 26-2 Georgia Tech ACC At-large 31-7 Louisville Conference USA At-large 24-4 Maryland ACC Automatic 26-4 Nebraska Big 12 Automatic 27-3 Penn State Big Ten Auto (shared) 29-2 Rhode Island Atlantic 10 Automatic 31-6 Wisconsin Big Ten At-large 23-7
valign=top	Mountain Regional Seed School Conference Berth Type Record Arizona Pac-10 At-large 19-9 BYU WAC Automatic 25-6 Colorado Big 12 At-large 18-9 Hawaii WAC At-large 31-2 Oral Roberts Independent At-large 27-4 Pacific Big West At-large 25-6 Sam Houston State Southland Automatic 25-14 San Diego West Coast At-large 22-7 San Diego State WAC At-large 21-10 Texas Big 12 At-large 22-6 Texas Tech Big 12 At-large 25-8 Washington Pac-10 At-large 22-7	valign=top	Central Regional Seed School Conference Berth Type Record Ark.-Little Rock Sun Belt Automatic 29-7 Florida SEC Automatic 34-1 Hofstra America East Automatic 19-18 Illinois State Missouri Valley Automatic 28-7 Long Beach State Big West Automatic 32-2 Miami (OH) Mid-American Automatic 24-6 Michigan State Big Ten Auto (shared) 24-6 Minnesota Big Ten At-large 23-10 Notre Dame Big East Automatic 21-11 Ohio State Big Ten At-large 26-5 Texas A&M Big 12 At-large 24-7 UCF Trans America Automatic 23-12

Brackets

Central regional

See also

• NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship

Notes and References

1. Web site: Top-Seeded Stanford beats Hawaiʻi, 3-0. 1996-12-21. Stanford Athletics. 2009-03-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724004529/http://www.gostanford.com/sports/w-volley/archive/9798spec-rel/stan-w-volley-spec-rel1221.html. 2011-07-24. dead.