KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Providence is the No. 6 seed for the NAIA women's volleyball championship, which begins Saturday with opening-round matches at campus sites.

The Argos (31-2) will host Northwest (Wash.) in one of 24 first-round matches. The winners of those 24 matches will advance to the final site at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa.

It's been a historic season for Providence, which won both the Frontier Conference regular-season and tournament championships. The Argos were ranked No. 1 in the NAIA before a late-season loss to Bellevue (Neb.), which snapped a 25-game win streak.

The Argos have won five straight matches since that loss, including a four-set victory over Bellevue in the Frontier Conference tournament championship on Saturday.

Northwest earned an at-large

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