TAMPA, Fla., November 17, 2024 – The 2024 outright American Athletic Conference Regular Season Champions, the University of South Florida Bulls, will open the conference tournament with the No. 8-seeded UAB Blazers on November 22 at 6 p.m., in Wichita, KS.
 
Wichita State earned the right to host this season's tournament after the departure of the 2023 regular season champions, SMU. The regular season champion earns the right to host the tournament the following year.
 
The Bulls and Blazers will go head-to-head just five days after a match between the two in Tampa that gave the Bulls their 10^th regular season title. If South Florida defeats UAB, they will play the winner of the game #4 winner between No. 5 Tulsa and No. 4 Wichita State. The Bulls defeated both teams earlier this season.
 
The full 2024 AAC Tournament schedule is below.
 
First Round Games (Friday, November 22)
Game #1 - No. 6 seed Florida Atlantic vs. No. 3 seed East Carolina (12 pm ET/11 am CT)
Game #2 - No. 7 seed North Texas vs. No. 2 seed Rice (3:30 pm ET/2:30 pm CT)
Game #3 - No. 8 seed UAB vs. No. 1 seed South Florida (6 pm ET/5 pm CT)
Game #4 - No. 5 seed Tulsa vs. No. 4 seed Wichita State (8:30 pm ET/7:30 pm CT)

Semifinal Games (Saturday, November 23)
Game #5 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 (12 pm ET/11 am CT)
Game #6 - Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 (3 pm ET/2 pm CT)

Final (Sunday, November 24)
Game #7 - Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6 (1 pm ET/12 pm CT)
 
About USF Volleyball
Head coach Jolene Shepardson enters her fifth season at the helm of her alma mater in 2024. Named head coach on Jan. 8, 2020, Shepardson led the Bulls to a conference championship and the program's last NCAA tournament appearance as a student-athlete in 2002. South Florida won the AAC East Division title in 2023, made a postseason appearance in the NIVC, won three matches, and advanced to the Fab Four to mark the longest postseason run in program history. South Florida Volleyball has made seven NCAA Tournament appearances and won 12 conference titles since its inception in 1972. The Bulls play in The Corral (1,000), located adjacent to the Yuengling Center on the USF campus in Tampa.
 
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