NCAA Tournament Bracket
GULF SHORES, Ala. – Making its first trip to the NCAA Tournament in program history, the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beach volleyball program earned the No. 15 seed and will square off with No. 2 TCU at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the first round.
ESPNU will begin broadcasting the tournament at 10 a.m. Wednesday and all dual matches will also be streamed live on ESPN+. The first round of the NCAA Tournament is single elimination, but the eight teams that win will advance to a double elimination quarterfinal bracket Friday.
A&M-Corpus Christi (21-12) earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after winning three matches in three days at the Southland Conference Tournament in Houston. The Islanders were dominant in the league all season and went 11-0 against SLC opponents.
Graduate
Kiley Lewis and senior
Migle Mazurkeviciute clinched the match in the SLC finals on court three and were 3-0 in the conference tournament. Junior
Giuliana Poletti Corrales and sophomore
Brooke Pertuit were named the SLC Pair of the Tournament and ended the regular season ranked No. 12 in the country.
The Islanders have already played TCU (38-3) twice this year, falling 5-0 on March 19 and 4-1 on April 9. Poletti Corrales and Pertuit picked up the win in the second matchup.
The national championship is slated for 3 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2.
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