to Division II, indicates schools belong to Division III. (Men's championship is for both Division I and II.) indicates a school that no longer exists, but whose athletic program still exists. indicates a school that no longer sponsors men's volleyball. School indicates they have won at least one championship. Other bold indicates most in respective column. Result by school and by year 30 teams have appeared in the NCAA tournament in at least one year starting with 1970, when the tournament shifted to its current bracket format. The results for all years are shown in this table below. The code in each cell represents how far the team made it in the respective tournament: National Champion National Runner-up Semifinals (1970-2018, 2022-; 3rd place represents , 1970-1995) Final Four (2019, 2021) Quarterfinals (2014-2016, 2018, 2019, 2021) First round (2018, 2019, 2021) Opening round (2017, 2022-; second opening round represents 2022-) Past tournaments Historically, California-based universities have dominated the men's volleyball national championship; Loyola Chicago, Penn State, Ohio State, BYU, and Hawaii are the only non-California universities to have won the National Collegiate championship; Lewis also won the championship tournament, but had their victory vacated due to NCAA rules violations. Only seven non-California universities have participated in the National Collegiate championship match (Loyola, BYU, Penn State, Ohio State, IPFW, Hawaii, and Lewis), although other universities such as Princeton and Ball State have participated in the final four. Only five finals have involved two non-California schools: the 2003 final, when Lewis defeated BYU but had its win vacated; the 2015 final, in which Loyola defeated Lewis; the 2016 and 2017 finals, when Ohio State defeated BYU; and the 2021 final, when Hawaii defeated BYU. Hawaii, UCLA, Southern California, Penn State, Stanford, and Long Beach State are the only schools in Division I to have won an NCAA national championship in both men and women's volleyball. In addition, Stanford (1996–97) and Penn State (2007–08) are the only universities whose men and women's volleyball programs won the national championship in the same academic year. 2011 May 5, 2011 – UC Santa Barbara def. Southern California, 29–27, 24–26, 25–15, 25–18; Ohio State def. Penn St., 25–18, 24–26, 25–22, 25-23 May 7, 2011 – Ohio State def. UC Santa Barbara, 20–25, 25–20, 25–19, 22–25, 15-9 2012 April 29, 2012 – Selections May 3, 2012 – Semifinals (6 p.m./8 p.m. PT) at Galen Center, Los Angeles, California: #1