Michella Chester's last women's volleyball bracket projections before the selection show

The 2025 DI women's volleyball tournament bracket reveal is less than a week away. The 64-team bracket will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 30.

A lot has happened since NCAA's Michella Chester's last bracket prediction a month ago and now she is back with one more before the selection show. Following the committee’s selection criteria and bracketing principles, Chester's predictions include the 31 automatic qualifiers and at-large teams.

Here's a quick reminder on how the selection information works, found on :

The Competition Oversight Committee has again approved a bracketing pilot for the Division I Women's Volleyball Championship. Fifty percent of the bracket will be seeded in four groupings of 1-8. Published seeding will be in four sets of 1-8 and the pairings will honor a 1-8 assignment. The committee will identify the top 32 teams. The top 16 teams will be identified in rank order and assigned a seed grouping from 1 to 4. The balance of the ranked teams, in turn, are assigned to one of the remaining seed groupings (i.e., 5 to 8). Once the seed assignment is finalized, it remains unchanged while placing the teams into the championship bracket. First and second-round conference matchups will be avoided.

2025 NCAA DI women's volleyball tournament bracket predictions

Michella Chester's one-four seeds

Listed in alphabetical order

One seeds:

• Nebraska
• Kentucky
• Pitt
• Texas

Two seeds:

• Arizona State
• Louisville
• SMU
• Texas A&M

Three seeds:

• Creighton
• Purdue
• Stanford
• Wisconsin

Four seeds:

• Indiana 
• Miami (Fla.)
• Minnesota
• Southern California

Five-eight seeds

Listed in alphabetical order

Five seeds:

• Kansas
• Iowa State
• TCU
• Tennessee

Six seeds:

• BYU
• Colorado
• Florida
• UTEP

Seven seeds:

• Baylor
• Penn State
• Western KY
• UNI

Eight seeds:

• Rice
• South Dakota State
• San Diego
• Xavier 

Predicted automatic qualifiers

With 27 of the automatic bids officially earned, here are Chester's predicted four remaining AQs in the NCAA tournament field. The remaining spots are for at-large bids.

Predicted at-large selections

Here are the 33 teams Chester predicts will fill out the rest of the bracket, listed in alphabetical order.