Hawaii men’s volleyball: Rainbow Warriors top seed in NCAA tournament
updated NCAA bracket with times at LBS
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Hawaii (27-2) has earned the top seed in the NCAA men’s volleyball tournament, it was announced today on NCAA.com.
It was the first time the Rainbow Warriors have been the top seed in the national tournament. Defending national champion Long Beach State (26-2), which lost in the Big West tournament championship match on Saturday, was seeded second.
Both Hawaii and Long Beach State have byes into the May 2 semifinals hosted by the 49ers. The Warriors will face the winner of the April 30 match between MPSF runner-up USC (18-10) and MIVA champion Lewis (25-5).
The full bracket for the 2019 NCAA NC Men's Volleyball Championship!#NCAAMVB pic.twitter.com/4WRP0Rq75y
— NCAA Volleyball (@NCAAVolleyball) April 21, 2019
In the opening round on Thursday, Conference Carolinas champion Barton (25-4) will host EIVA champion Princeton (16-12). The winner of that will play Pepperdine (22-6) on Tuesday, April 30, at Long Beach State.
That winner plays Long Beach State in the semifinals at the Pyramid where Long Beach State has won its last 41 matches.
Here’s interviews Sunday morning with libero Gage Worsley and hitter Colton Cowell on their lingering thoughts from Saturday night’s Big West championship and drawing the top seed:
#HawaiiMVB libero Gage Worsley after the seeding announcement Sunday morning: pic.twitter.com/Kxgb6Higej
— Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) April 21, 2019
#HawaiiMVB outside hitter Colton Cowell's #BWT morning-after thoughts: pic.twitter.com/u1HZ28IXfI
— Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) April 21, 2019
#HawaiiMVB outside hitter Stijn van Tilburg was still crushing everything tossed his way the next morning: pic.twitter.com/BZJBzk5gPJ
— Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) April 21, 2019
Terrific.
And the Warriors finally beat LBSU wearing the H logo on their jerseys! Not that outdated rainbow!
Remember that, folks!
1. nothing wrong with the rainbow logo. they wear it to honor the tradition.
1. & 2. About 10,000 people calling out “LET’S GO BOWS” at the top of their lungs throughout the match was a great demonstration that it is an extremely effective cheer for UH fans. The Warrior has great tradition too, and is effective for promoting UH. But “LET’S GO BOWS” gets the house rocking like nothing else. My guess is that the team and coaching staff liked what they heard and saw from the fans.
Looks like then losing two game to LBSU worked into their favor.
Cindy. Should lower campus be looking into any “snags” that the NCAA will scrutinize and contrive when it comes to Hawaii? You know. To avoid what happened “the last time”? Can you ask AD if you get to speak to him before the torney starts.
Happy Easter, all!
Gosh it always seems UH has to play someone on their home floor to get a championship.
Hope the third time is the charm although can’t overlook usc/lewis.
Hawaii has dominated attendance (tickets sold) in men’s volleyball this year. Total attendance of 83,362 almost equals what the #2-4 teams in attendance cumulatively drew: 85,056 for BYU, LBSU and Grand Canyon combined. The top 13 most attended games were either at the Stan Sheriff Center or were away games for Hawaii. The Big West men’s volleyball tournament drew 26,121 over the three days. Simply amazing for the team and the sport of men’s volleyball.
6. Where do you find these figures? I’ve been looking all over?
4. What happened “last time?” What will it take for the NCAA to realize that the tourney should be at SSC? Do we need to upgrade our replay cameras first?
GO WARRIORS!
4. not sure what you mean about snags or the “last time.” this wasn’t an NCAA event. It was a Big West event. Don’t think losing twice to the Beach worked in Hawaii’s favor. The difference was playing at home instead of the Pyramid.
7. NCAA.com/ncaa.org has attendance or if you have the time you can go to individual schools websites and click on team stats.
8. It takes UH to submit a bid. And the NCAA to accept it.
See Ferd Lewis’ column Monday
Has nothing to do with replay cameras. hawaii has been at the forefront of that. First time it was used in men’s volleyball was when Ohio state was out here a few years ago.
1.
I’m going to paraphrase Gertrude Stein: “A rainbow is a rainbow is a rainbow…”
To this day, I have no idea how we allowed the name change without a stronger fight. It was one-of-a-kind, like Salukis or Blue Hens.
When it rains, rainbows happen.
And Rainbow Warriors make us sound like a reggae band.
And yes, go men’s volleyball. I’m on the bandwagon.
7,9. Here is the link:
https://stats.ncaa.org
Choose Men’s Volleyball for the sport, then select Division I, then go the the Misc Reports tab. You will then see links for Attendance and Attendance SG Highs
This site has a lot of stats for all NCAA sports, by team and individual
Where do we get NCAA tournament ticket information? Will Hawaii fans sit together?
11. Thanks! I looked all over the NCAA website and never came across the Stats page…
12. tournament sold out but there will be an allotment for UH. Info likely out Monday. will let you know.
https://longbeachstate.com/splash.aspx?id=splash_9
LBS has released bracket schedule
Heard from a travel agent last night the allotment per school might be as small as 100 per school. Ridiculous. But with a 4000 seat arena the allotments are gonna be low. Heard it’s already a sell out anyway.
R6 hopefully next year they can cross the 100 k mark they have a lot of fan favorites returning.
I have a good feeling about our NC hopes. The Warriors have two weeks to prepare, and the last time they had a long break at the end of January, they came out on fire.
I wonder why Joe didn’t put in all those wrinkles he put in before, like the slide, the X play, etc. Didn’t see it at all against LBSU.
6. Thank you for the stats. Based on attendance for first night of Big West Championship here, can games really be a sell out if Hawaii team is not playing?
I’m a lot more confident going into the national tournament now that they have finally beat LBSU. I will say though if it does turn out to be a rematch for the national championship, it’s going to be tough with them being at home and all fired up for revenge. Hopefully the team can keep up their intensity
16. see 14. been saying for two weeks it was sold out.
18. it’s all about the passing and what the opponent gives you. Solbrig ran a couple of inside slides. There were a couple of Xs, the one Cowell ran he was blocked.
19. first night wasn’t a sellout based on tickets. If hawaii had been playing different story although Thursday night tough sell for fans.
Only Saturday had all tickets sold.
Still Thursday tickets sold was more than what any other school’s gym capacity. don’t think the Big West unhappy with Thursday. Even the 2500 turnstile is more than others get sometimes for a whole seson at home.
Sad that the NCAA Final is in a little gym
22. it’s men’s volleyball.
Hawaii No. 1 in today’s poll. not unanimous
https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/4-22-2019.html
https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=49508
new thread up for Monday.
Would not be surprised if van Tilburg is POW both Big West (announced today) and national (announced Tuesday)