Hawaii beach volleyball: SandBows seeded 7th, face No. 2 UCLA in NCAA tournament
Hawaii received the at-large bid it was hoping for and will open against UCLA on Friday in the NCAA beach volleyball tournament in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Other first-round matches have top-seeded USC vs. Stetson, third-seeded Florida State vs. Cal Poly and fourth-seeded Pepperdine vs. LSU.
The bracket 🏖🏐: https://t.co/3S6nd6Qvd4
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WELCOME TO THE BEACH 🏖🏐
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The NCAA beach volleyball tournament’s selection show is being live streamed at NCAA.com at 1 p.m. HST.
Hawaii, which lost to Cal Poly in the Big West tournament title game, is awaiting its postseason fate.
I picked all eight, with Cal Poly #6 and Hawaii #7 being the at-large 🙂
That’s awesome. I didn’t think that the SandBows were going to make it in this year.
Will Julia Scoles be able to play after her injury? I saw that Norene Iosia teamed with Ari Homayun to win the 4s for the title match. And Morgan Martin and Pani Napoleon moved up to the 2s and lost a really close match. Will be interesting to see the pairings for Friday. Wishing good pairings and good luck for the Wahine.
2. You never know when it comes to a committee. Hawaii stayed on the mainland so it wasn’t going to cost the NCAA any extra for them as any other California team.
Hawaii had been in the top 6 all year. no bad losses.All losses to teams in the NCAA field and Hawaii had the edge on the other teams under consideration, such as LMU.
3. Scoles still being evaluated. It is a back problem.
If she is unable to play, likely it is Iosia that moves into Scoles spot with Homayun.
It will be interesting against UCLA. SC beat the Bruins twice this week so they are vulnerable. But also probably very mad.