Long Beach State men’s volleyball is top seed for NCAA championships

The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is two wins from its third national title in four seasons after receiving the top seed for the seven-team NCAA championships on Sunday., but the Big West regular-season champs received one of the two at-large berths for the tournament, which is scheduled for May 1-7 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. Three-time national champion LBSU won back-to-back national titles in 2018-19 before the pandemic canceled the 2020 season.

As the top seed, Long Beach has earned a bye into the semifinals, its fifth NCAA Final Four showing in six seasons. MPSF regular-season champion UCLA and MPSF Tournament champ Pepperdine will square off in a first-round match on May 3 at 5 p.m., with the winner advancing to face LBSU in a May 5 semifinal scheduled for 5 p.m.

The tournament begins on May 1 with an opening-round match between surprise EIVA Tournament champion Princeton and Conference Carolinas champion North Greenville . The winner advances to a first-round match on May 3 against defending national champion Hawaii . The winner of that match advances to face No. 2 seed Ball State , the MIVA champion, in the other May 5 semifinal.

This is the 16th time UCLA has hosted the event, but the 19-time champions have not won the title since sweeping Penn State in 2006. UCLA and Long Beach met in a thrilling five-set match in the 2018 final, also at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA was upset by fifth-seeded Stanford in an MPSF Tournament semifinal last week.

Five-time national champion Pepperdine is among a few surprises in the field. The Waves finished third in the MPSF in the regular season but earned their spot by beating sixth-seeded BYU, second-seeded USC and Stanford over four nights in the MPSF Tournament last week at Pauley Pavilion. Pepperdine has not won it all since defeating UCLA in the 2005 final.NCAA MEN’S VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPSFirst Round No. 1 seed Long Beach State vs. UCLA/Pepperdine winner, 5 p.m.

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