FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Officials for the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) have announced the 32 teams and eight hosts for the first round of the 2017 postseason tournament, which has been revived after its six-year run from 1989-1995.
Last Thursday the NIVC officials announced Pacific as one of 15 programs that have earned an automatic berth into the post-season event. A team is offered an automatic berth by the NIVC when it's the highest-finishing team in its conference regular-season standings, and is not selected for the NCAA Tournament. Should a conference's automatic qualifier team decline the NIVC invitation, then the conference forfeits its AQ spot and that berth goes into the at-large pool.