2025 NCAA ladies’s volleyball match bracket predictions, made after the highest 16 reveal

The 2025 NCAA DI ladies’s volleyball match bracket reveal is a bit more than a month away. The 64-team bracket will probably be introduced on Sunday, Nov. 30. So much can occur earlier than then.

However, days after the choice committee revealed its in-season prime 16 groups, NCAA’s Michella Chester has made her match bracket predictions. Following the committee’s choice standards and bracketing rules, Chester’s predictions embrace the 31 automated qualifiers and at-large groups.

Here’s a fast reminder on how the choice data works, discovered on NCAA.org:

The Competition Oversight Committee has once more authorised a bracketing pilot for the Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship. Fifty p.c of the bracket will probably be seeded in 4 groupings of 1-8. Published seeding will probably be in 4 units of 1-8 and the pairings will honor a 1-8 task. The committee will establish the highest 32 groups. The prime 16 groups will probably be recognized in rank order and assigned a seed grouping from 1 to 4. The stability of the ranked groups, in flip, are assigned to one of many remaining seed groupings (i.e., 5 to eight). Once the seed task is finalized, it stays unchanged whereas inserting the groups into the championship bracket. First and second-round convention matchups will probably be averted.

2025 NCAA DI ladies’s volleyball match bracket predictions

*denotes host establishment

(1) Nebraska* vs. Saint Francis	(1) Pitt* vs. Towson
(8) Iowa State vs. Xavier	(8) Michigan State vs. Dayton
(5) BYU vs. James Madison	(5) Tennessee vs. Cincinnati
(4) Penn State* vs. Colgate	(4) Indiana* vs. Bryant
(3) Purdue* vs. Coppin State	(3) Texas A&M* vs. Fairfield
(6) Florida vs. Western Kentucky	(6) Baylor vs. Rice
(2) Stanford* vs. Utah Valley	(2) Arizona State* vs. Northern Colorado
(7) UCLA vs. UC Davis	(7) North Carolina vs. Utah State
(2) SMU* vs. SFA	(2) Louisville* vs. ETSU
(7) South Dakota State vs. Washington	(7) Kansas vs. Ball State
(3) Creighton* vs. Morehead State	(3) TCU* vs. Prairie View A&M
(6) Minnesota vs. Missouri	(6) Illinois vs. Auburn
(4) Wisconsin* vs. Cornell	(4) Miami (Fla.)* vs. Jacksonville
(5) Colorado vs. Marquette	(5) Southern California vs. Georgia
(8) UNI vs. Georgia Tech	(8) UTEP vs. San Diego
(1) Kentucky* vs. Wright State	(1) Texas* vs. High Point

Michella Chester’s one-four seeds

Listed in alphabetical order

One seeds:

• Kentucky
• Nebraska
• Pitt
• Texas

Two seeds:

• Arizona State
• Louisville
• SMU
• Stanford

Three seeds:

• Creighton
• Purdue
• Texas A&M
• TCU

Four seeds:

• Indiana
• Miami (Fla.)
• Penn State
• Wisconsin

Of Chester’s prime 16 nationwide seeds, 5 are from the Big Ten (Nebraska, Purdue, Wisconsin, Indiana and Penn State), 5 are from the ACC (Pitt, SMU, Louisville, Stanford and Miami), three are from the SEC (Texas, Kentucky, Texas A&M), two are from the Big 12 (Arizona State and TCU). Creighton is the one top-16 nationwide seed from the Big East.

Five-eight seeds

Listed in alphabetical order

Five seeds:

• BYU
• Colorado
• Southern California
• Tennessee

Six seeds:

• Baylor
• Florida
• Illinois
• Minnesota

Seven seeds:

• Kansas
• North Carolina
• South Dakota State
• UCLA

Eight seeds:

• Iowa State
• Michigan State
• UNI
• UTEP

Predicted automated qualifiers

Projecting the winners of each convention, listed here are Chester’s 31 AQs within the NCAA match area. The remaining spots are for at-large bids. 

Conference	AQ
America East	Bryant
American	Rice
ACC	Pitt
ASUN	Jacksonville
Atlantic 10	Dayton
Big East	Creighton
Big Sky	Northern Colorado
Big South	High Point
Big Ten	Nebraska
Big 12	TCU
Big West	UC Davis
CAA	Towson
Conference USA	Western Kentucky
Horizon League	Horizon League
Ivy League	Cornell
MAC	Ball State
MAAC	Fairfield
MEAC	Coppin State
Missouri Valley	UNI
Mountain West	Utah State
NEC	Saint Francis
Ohio Valley	Morehead State
Patriot League	Colgate
SEC	Texas
SoCon	ETSU
Southland	SFA
Summit League	South Dakota State
SWAC	Prairie View A&M
Sun Belt	James Madison
WAC	Utah Valley
WCC	San Diego

Predicted at-large choices

Here are the 33 groups Chester predicts will fill out the remainder of the bracket, listed in alphabetical order.

At-large choices
Arizona State	Michigan State
Auburn	Minnesota
Baylor	Missouri
BYU	North Carolina
Cincinnati	Penn State
Colorado	Purdue
Florida	SMU
Georgia	Stanford
Georgia Tech	Tennessee
Illinois	Texas A&M
Indiana	UCLA
Iowa State	Southern Cal.
Kansas	UTEP
Kentucky	Washington
Louisville	Wisconsin
Marquette	Xavier
Miami (Fla.)