The No. 1 University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team will take its 25-match win streak to southern California for the highly-anticipated, two-match series with No. 2 Long Beach State, Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 at the Walter Pyramid. Both teams are undefeated in Big West play with 8-0 records.
Matches #26-27
Who: No. 1 Hawai'i (25-0, 8-0 BWC) vs. No. 2 Long Beach State (23-1, 8-0 BWC)
When: Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13
Time: 7:00 p.m. PT (4:00 p.m. HT) both nights
Where: Walter Pyramid; Long Beach, Calif.
Television Coverage: Spectrum Sports will televise Saturday's match; Kanoa Leahey (play-by-play), Chris McLachlin (color)
Streaming Video: ESPN3 will stream Friday's match with Sam Farber (play-by-play), Dain Blanton (analyst), Matt Brown (sideline). Bigwest.tv for Saturday's match
Radio Coverage: None
Audio Webcast: None
Live Stats: LongBeachState.com
Game Notes:
- UH (25-0, 8-0 BWC) enters this week's regular season series finale with a 25-match win streak after a two-match series sweep of No. 3 UC Santa Barbara last week.
- The Rainbow Warriors, which saw their NCAA-best 74-set win streak snapped last Saturday, has the NCAA's sixth longest win streak at 25 matches. Two wins this week would tie them for fifth with Pepperdine (27 from 1985-86).
- UH's 25 wins is tied for the third most in program history and two shy of the program record of 27 set in 1996 and 2017.
- Long Beach State (23-1, 8-0), the defending national champion, is 10-0 at the Walter Pyramid this season. LBSU's lone loss this season occurred March 23 on the road at USC.
- Last season, UH handed LBSU its only loss, a five-set win in the regular season finale at the Stan Sheriff Center. The Beach won the series opener in five sets, 22-20 in the fifth and later defeated the Warriors in the Big West Tournament title match in Long Beach.
- LBSU leads the all-time series 45-42.
- UH and LBSU are two of the three winningest programs over the last five seasons. UH has 111 wins while the Beach has 120.
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