{"id":233125,"date":"2026-04-26T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=233125"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:24:41","slug":"warriors-to-host-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/26\/warriors-to-host-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament bound! Rainbow Warriors to host regional, eye final four run"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"volleyball<\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/span> men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> team received an at-large bid into the 2026 NCAA<\/abbr> championship tournament and earned a spot to host one of the four regionals, May 1–2.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Warriors are seeded No<\/abbr>. 2 and received a bye into the regional final on May 2. They will play the winner of the May 1 match between USC<\/abbr> and Belmont Abbey. Both matches will be played at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. Tickets for UH<\/abbr>‘s regional go on sale Monday, April 27.<\/p>\n

This is the first year the national tournament has expanded to 12 teams. The other three teams hosting the regionals are No<\/abbr>. 1 UCLA<\/abbr>, No<\/abbr>. 3 Long Beach State and No<\/abbr>. 4 Ball State.<\/p>\n

If UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span> wins the regional final, they will advance to the final four, May 9–11, at Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA<\/abbr>. The Rainbow Warriors last won the national championship in back-to-back years in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bows fall to Long Beach State in conference title match<\/h2>\n

This comes after the Rainbow Warriors fell in the Big West Championship to Long Beach State in a thrilling five-set title match 20-25, 27-25, 22-25, 30-28, 15-11, on April 25 at the Bren Events Center in Irvine, California. The top-seeded Rainbow Warriors (27-5) saw five attempts at championship point in the fourth set denied as the Beach (24-4) extended the match to a fifth set. Long Beach State then ran away early and held off the Warriors in the deciding set.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Warriors and the Beach went to five sets for the second time in three meetings this season and Long Beach State emerged with the win in a three-hour battle that featured 44 ties.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> opposite Kristian Titriyski led the Warriors and tied his season high with 20 kills in 41 attempts. Louis Sakanoko finished with 17 kills while hitting .353 and Adrien Roure added 15 kills and two aces. Tread Rosenthal distributed 54 assists and also served up two aces to raise his career total to 114 and tie Rado Parapunov for fifth in program history. Ofeck Hazan set a career high with nine blocks, including two solo.<\/p>\n

For more, visit the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span> Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rainbow Warriors are seeded No<\/abbr>. 2 and will host a regional, May 1–2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-233125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-athletics-mens-volleyball-ncaa-tournament-bid.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233125","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=233125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233131,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233125\/revisions\/233131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}