{"id":166551,"date":"2026-02-06T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166551\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:10:13","slug":"marquee-showdown-headlines-alan-knipe-retirement-celebration-as-no-2-long-beach-state-faces-no-1-ucla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166551\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquee Showdown Headlines Alan Knipe Retirement Celebration As No. 2 Long Beach State Faces No. 1 UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Via Long Beach State University Athletics,  12h ago <\/p>\n<p> LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 No. 2 Long Beach State and No. 1 UCLA collide on Friday night in the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid in one of the most anticipated matches of the 2026 men\u2019s volleyball season, as two undefeated 8-0 programs and national title contenders meet in a rematch of the 2025 NCAA National Championship, won by the Beach. The match will also feature a celebration to honor the retirement of legendary head coach Alan Knipe before a sold-out crowd at home. Long Beach State enters the matchup riding eight straight victories and ranking among the national leaders in\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"block-a_d-registration__img\" alt=\"Follow your favorite teams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long-beach-state-1-150x150.png\" data-refresh=\"logo\"\/> <a class=\"block-a_d-registration__cta\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/account\/create\/?trid=registration-ad\" aria-label=\"Follow your favorite teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Follow your favorite teams <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/news\/2026\/2\/5\/mens-volleyball-marquee-showdown-headlines-alan-knipe-retirement-celebration-as-no-2-long-beach-state-faces-no-1-ucla\" class=\"post-external__source btn link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Long Beach State University Athletics <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Long Beach State University Athletics, 12h ago LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 No. 2 Long Beach State and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-166551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}