GREENVILLE, S.C. – The first Conference Carolinas women’s volleyball NPI rankings have been released with Emmanuel University on top of the rankings.

NPI is the metric NCAA Division II will be using to select the NCAA Championship fields this year. The Conference Carolinas NPI will only apply to conference contests to seed the conference championships.

In the case of tiebreakers (which include any NPI values within the margin of error of 0.1), should they exist, the conference will use the current tiebreaking procedure.

The NPI rankings can be accessed via the current standings page on each sport page at conferencecarolinas.com. The women’s volleyball rankings are available here.

This marks the fourth year Conference Carolinas has used a metric to seed the conference tournament and the first year NPI will be used. The last three years, KPI was used to seed the conference tournaments. The metric will also be used in men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball, softball, baseball, men’s and women’s tennis.