  {"id":136407,"date":"2021-03-01T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=136407"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:20:19","slug":"uh-mens-volleyball-avca-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/01\/uh-mens-volleyball-avca-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>  M\u0101noa men\u2019s volleyball earns <abbr title=\"American Volleyball Coaches Association\">AVCA<\/abbr> coaches poll top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-athletics-mens-volleyball-2021.jpg\" alt=\"U H men&#039;s volleyball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-136404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-athletics-mens-volleyball-2021.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-athletics-mens-volleyball-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-athletics-mens-volleyball-2021-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball team<\/a> ascended to the top spot in this week\u2019s <abbr title=\"American Volleyball Coaches Association\">AVCA<\/abbr> Coaches Top 15 poll, leapfrogging previous No. 1 <abbr title=\"Brigham Young University\">BYU<\/abbr>, who dropped to No. 2 this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors (4-0) received 15 of the 16 first place votes and 239 total points. <abbr>BYU<\/abbr> received the other first place vote and is No. 2 followed by No. 3 Pepperdine, No. 4 <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara and No. 5 Lewis.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> also holds the No. 1 ranking in the Off the Block Media Poll. The Warriors either held the top spot outright or shared it for the past three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Âé¶¹´«Ã½successfully opened its season by winning all four matches on the road last week, comprising consecutive two-match series sweeps of <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Irvine and <abbr>UC<\/abbr> San Diego.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2021\/3\/1\/mens-volleyball-earns-top-spot-in-avca-coaches-poll.aspx\">Learn more at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rainbow Warriors (4-0) received 15 of the 16 first place votes and 239 total points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136424,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136407\/revisions\/136424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}