The Auburn Tigers are dancing once again.
For the second straight season, the volleyball team has made the NCAA Tournament, this time as a seven seed. They will play Western Michigan on Thursday at 3 p.m. CT in Louisville. The winner will then play the winner of two seed Louisville and Wright State.
It is the first time Auburn has made the tournament in back-to-back seasons and head coach [autotag]Brent Crouch[/autotag] is the first coach in program history to guide Auburn to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances.
“It’s a big deal,” Crouch said. “We talked at the beginning of the year about can we do it again. Mostly what I meant by that was can we play at the same level or better? Can we improve? And can we make it to the NCAA Tournament again? And we’ve done that. Never been done here at Auburn, twice in a row as we know. So it’s a huge step forward. It’s also a huge step forward that we knew we were in. We were not a bubble team. We got seeded and that’s a huge step in the right direction.”
Auburn finished the regular season 20-9 overall and 10-8 in SEC play, good enough to tie for fourth place in the conference.
Last season, the Tigers beat Creighton in the first round of the tournament before falling to Houston in five sets in the second round.
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