EIVA
| Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) |
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| Established | 1977 |
| Members | 8 |
| Sports fielded | Volleyball (men's: 1; women's: 0) |
| Region | Northeast |
| Former names | Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball League (ECVL) |
| Headquarters | Bronxville, New York |
| Commissioner | Ivan Marquez |
| Website | eivavolleyball.com |
The Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball. Its member institutions are located in the Northeast United States.
The EIVA Tournament champion receives one of four automatic bids to the NCAA National Collegiate Volleyball Championship. The other three automatic bids go to the two other traditional major volleyball conferences, the MIVA (Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) and the MPSF (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), plus Conference Carolinas, a NCAA Division II conference that is the only all-sports conference in either Division I or II that sponsors men's volleyball. Before the 2014 tournament, the EIVA, MIVA, and MPSF received three of the four bids to the NCAA tournament, with the remaining entry being an at-large bid that was chosen from one of the three leagues by a committee of coaches from these leagues. Since 2014, the NCAA tournament has involved six teams, specifically the four conference champions and two at-large entries.
Penn State has won every conference championship for the past 17 years, with the exception of 1998 when Princeton captured the title. The Nittany Lions are the only conference team to win the NCAA national championships, having captured the title in 1994 and 2008.
As of the most recently completed 2016 season (2015–16 school year), the EIVA consists of eight schools: the University of Charleston (in West Virginia; not to be confused with the College of Charleston in South Carolina), George Mason University, Harvard University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU), Princeton University, Sacred Heart University, and Saint Francis University (in Pennsylvania; not to be confused with St. Francis College in Brooklyn, which like the Pennsylvania school is an all-sports member of the Northeast Conference). The top four teams compete for the EIVA championship. The winner represents the conference in the NCAA Div. I/II national championships.
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