The NCAA title game on Sunday will play out in a sold-out arena before a national TV audience, the latest example of volleyball’s popularity.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — What’s remarkable is not that two women are coaching for the national championship and one will win a title for the first time in the 44 years of NCAA women’s volleyball. It’s remarkable that these women, Katie Schumacher-Cawley and Dani Busboom Kelly, are the two doing it. Because they are the ideal representatives.

The stage is set for the 2024 Division-I women's volleyball national championship. Louisville knocked off Pittsburgh 3-1 in the first semifinal to clinch

Players and coaches who will make history at the NCAA volleyball championship still find it hard to believe that a female coach hasn't already won a title.

NCAA women’s volleyball national title on Sunday. Penn State, winner of seven national titles and six of the last 17 titles in the sport, takes on Louisville, which has never won the national title and made its first Final Four appearance three years ago.

There’s something about Kentucky that works for Penn State. After trailing by two sets and surviving in the third set against Nebraska in the NCAA semifinals, the Nittany Lions staved off match point — twice — to force a decisive fifth set.