Hawaii’s bid to cap its Big West run with a trophy slipped away in agonizing fashion on Saturday, as the Rainbow Warriors dropped a five-set marathon to Long Beach State in Irvine. The Big West final went the distance and then some, and Hawaii walked away with a 27-5 record and a nervous wait to see where the next chapter of its season will play out in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State took the conference crown with set scores of 20-25, 27-25, 22-25, 30-28 and 15-11 and secured the Big West’s automatic NCAA berth, according to the University of Hawai’i athletics<\/a>. Hawaii will now wait on the NCAA Selection Show, which will stream on Hawaii News Now<\/a>‘s reported platform of NCAA.com at 10 a.m. HST Sunday.<\/p>\n Coach’s Short Answer And The Committee’s Question<\/p>\n Asked where he wants his team to play next, coach Charlie Wade did not overthink it. His reply: “Stan Sheriff Center.” He added that he believes the Warriors are “in a strong position to not only get an at-large bid, but host,” as reported by Spectrum News Hawaii<\/a>. The selection committee will weigh a familiar stew of metrics and criteria, a breakdown that local coverage has already dug into in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/a>‘s preview of the show.<\/p>\n What The Bracket Looks Like<\/p>\n The NCAA Final Four is scheduled for May 9 and May 11 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, according to the championship site schedule. The selection show will set the 12-team bracket and identify which programs get to roll out the welcome mat as opening-round hosts.<\/p>\n Hosting Calculus<\/p>\n On paper, Hawaii has plenty going for it. The Warriors sit near the top of the national polls, with the AVCA<\/a> listing Hawai’i among the country’s elite teams, a data point that will be in front of the selection committee. Still, the group has to juggle seeding, travel and bracket logistics, so a lofty ranking does not automatically translate into a home regional, as Spectrum News Hawaii<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n What Fans Should Watch<\/p>\n Fans can tune in to the NCAA Selection Show at 10 a.m. HST Sunday on NCAA.com to find out whether UH lands an at-large berth and, if it does, whether that bid comes with home-court advantage. The show time was confirmed by Hawaii News Now<\/a>. If Hawai’i is awarded a regional, the school’s athletics department will post ticket and logistics information on its website and social channels, so fans should keep an eye on the University of Hawai’i athletics<\/a> feed for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawaii’s bid to cap its Big West run with a trophy slipped away in agonizing fashion on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-287832","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\/287832","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=287832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}