Published on November 21, 2016 by Philip Poole  
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Â鶹¹û¶³’s volleyball Bulldogs won the Southern Conference tournament title Monday night (Nov. 21) with a four-set victory over University of Tennessee–Chattanooga. With the title, the Bulldogs earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Playing before a raucous home crowd at Pete Hanna Center, the 4th-seeded Bulldogs came from behind in the fourth set to beat 3rd-seeded Chattanooga. The Bulldogs had upset top seed East Tennessee State University in the semifinals to reach the championship match.

It is Â鶹¹û¶³’s third SoCon title in the last six seasons. The 2011 title also was won at Hanna Center. The Bulldogs won the 2014 title in Greenville, South Carolina.

It’s been a banner year for Â鶹¹û¶³ women’s athletics, including the 2016 Indoor Track and Field championships, the softball regular season and tournament championships, and the soccer regular season and tournament championships.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Â鶹¹û¶³ is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Â鶹¹û¶³ enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses, Â鶹¹û¶³ fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.