The EIVA Tournament champion receives one of six automatic bids to the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship.

The Nittany Lions are the only conference team to win the NCAA national championships, having captured the title in 1994 and 2008.

The most recent change to the EIVA membership was the return of Sacred Heart for the spring 2025 season after a two-year absence.

The Pioneers had left the EIVA after the 2022 season to join the new men's volleyball league of its then-current primary home of the Northeast Conference (NEC),[2] but returned to the EIVA when it left the NEC to join the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

This temporarily left the EIVA with six members, the minimum needed to maintain its automatic NCAA tournament berth.

On April 28, 2012, Uvaldo Acosta (George Mason), Tom Hay (Springfield College), Ivan Marquez (Concordia [NY]), Bill Odeneal (SUNY New Paltz), Bob Sweeney (East Stroudsburg), and Tom Tait (Penn State) were inducted into the EIVA's inaugural Hall of Fame class during the 2012 EIVA Championship match at Penn State.