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Joshua Sudock \/ Special to the Star-Advertiser<\/p>\n
UH coach Charlie Wade talked to his players during the first set of Saturday\u2019s Big West volleyball championship against Long Beach State in Irvine, Calif.<\/p>\n
The University of Hawaii will host an NCAA men\u2019s volleyball regional, the NCAA announced today.<\/p>\n
UH was seeded No. 2 overall, behind No. 1 UCLA and ahead of No. 3 Long Beach State. UCLA, Long Beach State and No. 4 Ball State also will be regional hosts.<\/p>\n
The hosts will have a first-round bye in the regionals, which are set for Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Hawaii will play the winner of Southern California and Belmont Abbey on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Rainbow Warriors are 27-5 with a 16-3 home record and a 10-1 road record. They won the Big West regular-season title but lost in five sets to defending national champion Long Beach State in the Big West tournament final on Saturday.<\/p>\n
UH had five chances to close out the match in the fourth set against the Beach, only to lose it 30-28. The Beach rode that momentum for a 20-25, 27-25, 22-25, 30-28, 15-11 victory in a match that featured 44 ties and lasted three hours and one minute.<\/p>\n
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The NCAA National Collegiate Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship expanded to 12 teams this year, up from nine in 2025.<\/p>\n
The new format has seven automatic qualifiers and five at-large selections. The four regionals will be played Friday and Saturday. The regional winners advance to the Final Four at UCLA\u2019s Pauley Pavilion on May 9 and 11.<\/p>\n
UCLA Regional<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
UC Irvine (18-8) vs. Penn Sate (22-7)<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
Winner vs. No. 1 UCLA (29-1)<\/p>\n
Ball State Regional<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
Pepperdine (23-6) vs. Fort Valley State (16-12)<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
Winner vs. No. 4 Ball State (24-4)<\/p>\n
Hawaii Regional<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
Southern California (19-7) vs. Belmont Abbey (20-5)<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
Winner vs. No. 2 Hawaii (27-5)<\/p>\n
Long Beach State Regional<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
Loyola Chicago (20-8) vs. Saint Francis (18-11)<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
Winner vs. No. 3 Long Beach State (24-4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Sudock \/ Special to the Star-Advertiser UH coach Charlie Wade talked to his players during the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-287311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287311","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=287311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}