{"id":140292,"date":"2021-04-27T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=140292"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:18:47","slug":"mens-vb-team-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/27\/mens-vb-team-top-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s <abbr title=\"volleyball\">VB<\/abbr> team takes top seed in <abbr title=\"national collegiate athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> tournament"},"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\/04\/mens_vb_block_2021.jpg\" alt=\"Â鶹´«Ã½men&#039;s volleyball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-140297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mens_vb_block_2021.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mens_vb_block_2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mens_vb_block_2021-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball team<\/a> earned the No. 1 overall seed for the <abbr title=\"national collegiate athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> national championship tournament.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> received the at-large bid after suffering the team\u2019s only loss this season during the Big West Conference tournament last week. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rado_parapunov_spike_2021-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Rado Parapunov spike\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-140296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rado_parapunov_spike_2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rado_parapunov_spike_2021-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rado_parapunov_spike_2021.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors (15-1) earned a bye into the semifinals where they will face the winner of the <abbr title=\"university of California\">UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara versus Pepperdine University opening round match on Thursday, May 6. Brigham Young University is the No. 2 seed and received the other bye into the semifinals. This year&#8217;s tournament will be held at the Covelli Center in Columbus, Ohio. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/27\/parapunov-big-west-player-of-the-year\/\">Parapunov repeats as Big West Player of the Year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> will be making its seventh all-time appearance in the championship tournament and second as the No. 1 seed. The Warriors were the top seed in the 2019 tournament where they finished runner-up to host Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>Seven teams make up the 2021 field, which begins Monday, May 3 with a play-in match between Penn State University and Belmont Abbey College. <\/p>\n<p>See the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/volleyball-men\/nc\/2021\">bracket for the tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has an all-time record of 5-6 in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament. Â鶹´«Ã½has advanced to the championship match three times in its history and will be seeking its first national title. <\/p>\n<p>Read more about the team\u2019s journey to the tournament at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2021\/4\/25\/mens-volleyball-hawai-i-earns-no-1-seed-in-ncaa-tournament.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the first loss in the season, the Â鶹´«Ã½men\u2019s volleyball team heads to the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 seed.<\/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":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-140292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140292","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=140292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140301,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140292\/revisions\/140301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}