MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin women's volleyball team once again earned a bid to the NCAA tournament for the 10th-straight season.

The team was selected as the top regional seed and No. 3 seed overall. 

UW will also host the first and second round matches on Friday and Saturday in the UW Field House. Wisconsin (25-3) faces off against Quinnipiac (14-14) at 7 p.m. after Washington (20-10) takes on TCU (16-10) at 4:30 p.m.

“There is excitement about getting another week and another match with this,” head coach Kelly Sheffield said in a press release. “You have to earn the right to move on and every match you play is kind of a gift.

The Badgers are the reigning NCAA champions, holding a 60-24 (.714) all-time record in the program’s 25 NCAA tournament appearances. 

“We’re excited about playing Quinnipiac, it’s their first time ever being in the tournament and I’ve been in that place at Albany and I know what that means. (TCU) is a team that was good when we saw them and is a team this getting better as they’ve gone on and progressed," Sheffield said in a press release. "Washington is one of the top teams in the Pac-12. It’s a really well-coached team that plays hard and has big-time players and a big-time setter. We’ll have to get ready to play some of our best volleyball of the year this weekend.”  

This year, the program won its fourth-straight Big Ten championship. Wisconsin made it in the top-four seed four other times: No. 4 seed in 2021, No. 1 seed in 2020, No. 4 seed in 2019, No. 3 seed in 2016 and No. 4 seed in 2014.