KIAC Volleyball Tournament: Nov. 13-14 at Rio Grande (Ohio)
KIAC Volleyball Tournament: Nov. 13-14 at Rio Grande (Ohio)
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2015 KIAC VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT
Nov. 13-14 at Rio Grande (Ohio) -- Single Elimination
Friday, Nov. 13 -- Quarterfinals
10 a.m. -- No. 1 IU Kokomo def. No. 8 Brescia (Ky.), 3-0 (25-17, 25-14, 25-15) -- Box Score
12:30 p.m. -- No. 2 IU East def. No. 7 Cincinnati Christian, 3-0 (25-21, 25-22, 25-20) -- Box Score
5:00 p.m. -- No. 3 Point Park (Pa.) def. No. 6 Rio Grande, 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-16) -- Box Score
7:30 p.m. -- No. 5 IU Southeast def. No. 4 Asbury (Ky.), 3-2 (25-20, 17-25, 31-29, 15-25, 15-12) -- Box Score
Saturday, Nov. 14 -- Semifinals
10:00 a.m. -- No. 1 IU Kokomo def. No. 5 IU Southeast, 3-2 (20-25, 22-25, 25-14, 25-18, 15-10) -- Box Score
12:30 p.m. -- No. 3 Point Park def. No. 2 IU East, 3-2 (21-25, 25-16, 26-28, 27-25, 15-11) -- Box Score
Saturday, Nov. 14 -- Finals
3:30 p.m. -- No. 1 IU Kokokmo def. No. 3 Point Park, 3-1 (14-25, 25-13, 25-17, 25-20) -- Box Score
RIO GRANDE, Ohio -- The 2015 KIAC Volleyball Tournament is coming up this weekend, Nov. 13-14 at the University of Rio Grande in Rio Grande, Ohio. The eight-team, single-elimination tournament gets underway with four quarterfinal matches on Friday, Nov. 13, and the semifinal and final rounds are Saturday, Nov. 14.
The KIAC is proud to bring fans the entire 2015 KIAC Volleyball Tournament with live streaming video on the KIAC Game Central portal presented by Stretch Internet. Watch Live every tournament match by becoming a subscriber at http://portal.stretchinternet.com/kiac.
KIAC Game Central subscriptions are available at $7.95 per game, $19.99 for the entire volleyball tournament and $49.99 for all-access to KIAC championship throughout the year. Kaleb Gillock of IU East will bring play-by-play coverage of every tournament match along with the live video stream courtesy of host Rio Grande.
The top eight teams from the KIAC standings qualified for the conference tournament. No. 1 seed IU Kokomo (31-4, 11-1 KIAC) has already earned the KIAC's first automatic bid to the NAIA National Championship by virtue of its regular-season championship. The other seven teams will be battling for the conference's second automatic bid to nationals, which is given to the KIAC Tournament champion.
If regular-season champion IU Kokomo should win the KIAC Tournament, then the conference's second NAIA bid will go to the KIAC Tournament runner up. The NAIA National Championship begins Nov. 21 with the NAIA Opening Round at campus sites and continues Dec. 1-5 in Sioux City, Iowa, for the final site.
The KIAC Tournament figures to have many teams in contention to come away with the title. The top six teams in the standings were separated by just 3.0 games, and that has tournament host Rio Grande (26-7, 8-4 KIAC) as the No. 6 seed. The top four teams were separated by just 2.0 games.
Top seed IU Kokomo gets the KIAC Tournament started with the first match on Friday, Nov. 13 at 10 a.m. versus No. 8 seed Brescia (9-16, 5-7 KIAC). The winner of that match will play the winner of the 7:30 p.m. match pitting No. 4 Asbury (Ky.) (21-13, 9-3 KIAC) versus No. 5 IU Southeast (17-16, 8-4 KIAC). The quarterfinal matches in that half of the bracket feed into a semifinal match on Saturday at 10 a.m.
No. 2 seed IU East (23-14, 10-2 KIAC) leads the other half of the bracket and faces No. 7 seed Cincinnati Christian (18-11, 7-5 KIAC) in the quarterfinals on Friday at 12:30 p.m. The winner of that match will face the winner of the 5:00 p.m. quarterfinal match that features No. 3 seed Point Park (Pa.) (15-22, 9-3 KIAC) versus No. 6 seed Rio Grande (26-7, 8-4 KIAC). The bottom half of the bracket leads to a semifinal match on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
The KIAC Tournament Finals will be Saturday, Nov. 14 at 3:30 p.m. Follow all the tournament action online at KIACSports.com and with live video streaming on Stretch Internet via the KIAC Game Central portal. Follow on social media on Twitter @KIACSports hashtags #KIAC and #KIACVolleyball. Follow on Facebook.com/KIACSports