Springfield College has been selected to host the inaugural NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Championship in 2012, and the Stevens Institute of Technology will host the championship in 2013. The NCAA Division III Championships Committee approved the recommendations from the Division III Men's Volleyball Committee in April 2011.
The 2012 finals will be April 27-29 at Springfield's Blake Arena in Springfield, Mass. The 2013 finals are April 26-28 at Canavan Arena in Hoboken, N.J., on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology. Both Springfield and Stevens have hosted the Molten Championship three times since that tournament was formed in 1997 to give Division III men's volleyball sponsors a post-season experience.
Division III formally adopted the NCAA men's volleyball championship as the Association's 89th championship at the 2011 Convention. The NCAA has sponsored a National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship (all divisions) since 1970, but sponsorship of men's volleyball in Division III recently eclipsed the 50 institutions required for a single division to conduct its own championship.
The inaugural event will be a nine-team championship with a preliminary play-in match. The play-in match will be April 21, 2012 on the campus of the higher-seeded team. The three-day national championship will be April 27-29, 2012 starting with quarterfinal play. The championship-selection show will be April 15, 2012.
