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With a little over two months until the start of the season, the 2015 UCLA women's volleyball schedule was announced on Monday, in addition to the Pac-12 Networks television slate.

UCLA will host 12 matches in 2015, with seven taking place at Pauley Pavilion. The remaining five contests, both August matches and the three Sunday matinees, will be played at Collins Court in the John Wooden Center.

The Bruins will be on Pac-12 Networks 16 times, starting with the season opener against Virginia on Saturday, Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. UCLA will also host Loyola Marymount in a non-TV match the next day, Sunday, Aug. 30 at 5 p.m.

UCLA begins an eight-match, non-conference stretch on the road in Honolulu, taking on American University on Friday, Sept. 4 (7:30 p.m. PT), Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 5 (7:30 p.m. PT) and host Hawai'i on Sunday, Sept. 6 (8 p.m. PT).

The Bruins resume play in the Golden State the following weekend in Santa Barbara, facing San Diego on Friday, Sept. 11 (4 p.m.), SMU on Saturday, Sept. 12 (7 p.m.) and UCSB on Sunday, Sept. 13 (2 p.m.). Non-conference action wraps up with a doubleheader on Friday, Sept. 18, first at UC Irvine at 10 a.m. and concluding at Long Beach State at 7:30 p.m.

UCLA will be on Pac-12 Networks for eight of its first nine conference matches, starting with the league opener against rival USC on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion. That weekend, the Bruins head to Berkeley to face California on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 12 p.m.

The Bruins host the Washington schools during the first weekend in October, taking on Washington on Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion on Pac-12 Networks and Washington State on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 11 a.m. at John Wooden Center. The UCLA-WSU tilt will be the lone match of the first nine league contests to not air on Pac-12 Networks.

A road trip to the Mountain states will be next for the Bruins, who travel to Utah on Friday, Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. and Colorado on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 11 a.m.

The Bruins return home for a two-match homestand, starting Friday, Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. against Arizona at Pauley Pavilion and wrapping up on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 1:30 p.m. versus Arizona State at John Wooden Center. Both matches will be on Pac-12 Networks.

UCLA hits the road again for a four-match jaunt, starting off with a Friday, Oct. 23 match at Oregon at 6 p.m., which will air on Pac-12 Networks. The next two matches, which won't be on TV, will take the Bruins to Oregon State on Sunday, Oct. 25 at 12 p.m. and Washington State on Friday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. The road trip concludes on Sunday, Nov. 1 at Washington with an 11 a.m. tilt on Pac-12 Networks.

After a four-match road trip, the Bruins return home for a quartet of contests, the first three of which will be at Pauley. UCLA entertains Colorado on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m. on Pac-12 Networks, followed by a Friday, Nov. 6, non-TV contest at 7 p.m. against Utah.

The homestand concludes with a pair of Pac-12 Networks contests the next week on Thursday, Nov. 12 against Oregon at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15 versus Oregon State. The UCLA-OSU affair will start at a time to be determined by TV later in the season and will be played at John Wooden Center.

The last road stretch of the season will see the Bruins play three times in six days, starting on Friday, Nov. 20 at Arizona State. The match will air on Pac-12 Networks at a time to be determined. Following a non-TV contest at Arizona on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 11 a.m., the Bruins travel across town to take on USC on Wednesday, Nov. 25. The contest will air on Pac-12 Networks at a time to be determined.

The final match of the regular season will be against Stanford on Friday, Nov. 27 at Pauley Pavilion, another Pac-12 Networks match with a TBD time.

The first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament will be played at 16 campus sites on Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday, Dec. 5, followed by the Regional Semifinals and Finals (Dec. 11-12) at four pre-determined locations (Austin, Texas; Des Moines, Iowa; Lexington, Ky; San Diego, Calif.).

The final four teams will converge on Omaha, Neb., with the National Semifinals scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 17 and the National Championship Match taking place on Saturday, Dec. 19.

The Bruins return 12 letterwinners from last year's team, which went 22-12 and advanced to the Regional Semifinals.