[Canalejas]

Here is the NCAA directory listing for schools that play beach volleyball:  

https://web3.ncaa.org/directory/memberLi...rtCode=WSV  

Beach volleyball is an NC sport, with schools from all three NCAA divisions playing for a single unified championship. 

Starting this year, the NCAA tournament will be a 16-team single-elimination tournament.  

https://www.ncaa.com/news/beach-volleyba...hange-2023  

With the bracket expansion and the addition of automatic qualifiers, the committee determined that a national selection process should be implemented.

  

If automatic qualifiers means autobids for conference champions, then I think the LA schools will want to avoid the independent route.  Perhaps they can ask to join the Big West or West Coast conferences as affiliate members.  Perhaps UCLA should join the public schools in the Big West while USC plays against the private schools in the West Coast.  

Or they can try to make the sport an MPSF sport, in which case they'd likely be joined by Cal State LA and Concordia Irvine. There are some Texas schools available to be added to the league, should the MPSF need more than 4 to get an autobid.  The options would be East Texas Baptist, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Texas A&M-Kingsville, and Texas.

[Canalejas]

Here is the NCAA directory listing for schools that play beach volleyball:  

https://web3.ncaa.org/directory/memberLi...rtCode=WSV  

Beach volleyball is an NC sport, with schools from all three NCAA divisions playing for a single unified championship. 

Starting this year, the NCAA tournament will be a 16-team single-elimination tournament.  

https://www.ncaa.com/news/beach-volleyba...hange-2023  

With the bracket expansion and the addition of automatic qualifiers, the committee determined that a national selection process should be implemented.

  

If automatic qualifiers means autobids for conference champions, then I think the LA schools will want to avoid the independent route.  Perhaps they can ask to join the Big West or West Coast conferences as affiliate members.  Perhaps UCLA should join the public schools in the Big West while USC plays against the private schools in the West Coast.  

Or they can try to make the sport an MPSF sport, in which case they'd likely be joined by Cal State LA and Concordia Irvine. There are some Texas schools available to be added to the league, should the MPSF need more than 4 to get an autobid.  The options would be East Texas Baptist, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Texas A&M-Kingsville, and Texas.