South Carolina State will face No. 1 Florida in the First Round of the 2010 Division I Volleyball Championship Tournament.  The first and second rounds of the tournament will be held December 2-5, 2010 on the campus of the highest seeded teams.

South Carolina State enters the tournament with a 17-22 overall record.  The Lady Bulldogs defeated Delaware State in the MEAC championship on November 21 to secure the conference's automatic qualification to their first ever NCAA championship appearance and the school's second MEAC title. The Lady Bulldogs have won nine of their last 11 matches.

South Carolina State was the MEAC's leading blocking team (all matches combined), averaging 1.88 blocks per set. The Lady Bulldogs are led offensively by senior outside hitter Jarne Gleaton, who leads the MEAC with 3.46 kills per set and also adds 1.97 digs per set. Sophomore middle blocker Shabree Roberson and freshman middle blocker Desire Waller follow with 2.37 and 2.28 kills per set, respectively.

Junior setter Bria Brimmer leads the MEAC with 9.23 assists per set, while also ranking first on the team and eighth in the MEAC with 0.30 service aces per set. Sophomore libero Melissa Robinson is sixth in the MEAC in digs per set with 3.12, while Roberson is the team's leading blocker with 0.94 rejections per set.

The Lady Bulldogs first round matchup will be this Friday at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on the campus of University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. First serve is set for 7:30 p.m.

The No. 1 Florida Gators (27-1) were undefeated in the SEC with a 20-0 mark and will make their 20th consecutive appearance and 21st appearance overall in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament.