{"id":95101,"date":"2019-04-23T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=95101"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:33:50","slug":"mens-volleyball-ncaa-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/23\/mens-volleyball-ncaa-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"volleyball\">VB<\/abbr> Warriors win Big West, head to <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> as top seed"},"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><strong>Updates:<\/strong> <br \/>\nMay 3, 2019&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/5\/3\/mens-volleyball-to-play-for-national-title-against-long-beach-state.aspx\">Men\u2019s volleyball to play for national title against Long Beach State<\/a><br \/>\nMay 2, 2019&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/5\/2\/mens-volleyball-downs-lewis-to-punch-ticket-into-ncaa-championship-match.aspx?path=mvball\">Men&#8217;s Volleyball downs Lewis to punch ticket into <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> championship match<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_40192\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hEbR5Opzss?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Rainbow Warrior Volleyball vs. Long Beach: Sights and Sounds\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> men&#8217;s volleyball team earned the top seed in the 2019 <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Men&#8217;s Volleyball Championship, beginning Thursday, April 25, with semifinals on Thursday, May 2, at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California. The finals are scheduled for Saturday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa men&#8217;s volleyball defeated defending <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> and Big West champion, Long Beach State University (<abbr title=\"Long Beach State University\">LBSU<\/abbr>), in five sets to capture its first Big West Tournament title in front of a sold-out Stan Sheriff Center. The win extended <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s home winning streak to 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors (27&#8211;2) avenged two losses against <abbr>LBSU<\/abbr> last week in Long Beach to close out the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors will make their sixth <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> tournament appearance and third under head coach <strong>Charlie Wade<\/strong>, who took <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa to the national tournament in 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa will face the winner of <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 4 University of Southern California (<abbr title=\"University of Southern California\">USC<\/abbr>) of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and <abbr>No. 5<\/abbr> Lewis University of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in the semifinals. <abbr>USC<\/abbr> and Lewis University will meet in one of two opening round matches on Tuesday, April 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/4\/20\/mens-volleyball-captures-first-big-west-title-wifth-five-set-win-over-long-beach-state.aspx\">Read details about the men\u2019s volleyball exciting five-set win over <abbr>LBSU<\/abbr> at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/4\/21\/mens-volleyball-earns-top-seed-in-ncaa-tournament.aspx\">Read about men\u2019s volleyball earning top seed in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> tournament at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-ncaa.jpg\" alt=\"volleyball team win big west\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-ncaa.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-ncaa-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-ncaa-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa men&#8217;s volleyball team earned the top seed in the 2019 <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Men&#8217;s Volleyball Championship and defeated Long Beach State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,911,660,550,80],"class_list":["post-95101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-student-recognition","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\/95101","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=95101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95839,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95101\/revisions\/95839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}