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UH men’s volleyball team drops a spot in AVCA poll

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KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / FEB. 2016

The Rainbow Warriors celebrate a point at a NCAA men’s volleyball game between Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Long Beach State 49ers at the Stan Sheriff Center in Manoa on Wednesday.

Despite winning both of its road matches last week, the Hawaii men’s volleyball team dropped a spot in today’s AVCA Division I-II Top 15 poll.

Hawaii (12-9, 7-9 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) traded places with Pepperdine (10-6, 9-6). The Warriors fell to No. 9 and the Waves moved to No. 8 after their upset Saturday at then-No. 3 Stanford.

BYU (16-2, 12-2 MPSF) replaced Long Beach State at No. 1, receiving 17 of the 20 first-place votes. The 49ers (18-3, 12-2 MPSF), losing to then No. 5 Ohio State on Saturday, received two votes in dropping to No. 2.

UCLA (19-3, 13-3) and Ohio State (17-3, 9-1 MIVA) both moved up a spot, the Bruins to No. 3 and the Buckeyes to No. 4. Stanford (15-3), 13-3 MPSF) slipped two spots to No. 5 while Penn State (13-4, 7-0 EIVA) stayed at No. 6 and UC Santa Barbara (14-8, 9-7 MPSF) remained at No. 7.

Hawaii has the week off and returns to action when hosting UC Irvine (7-13, 5-11 MPSF) March 25 and 26.

Also today, the Hawaii beach volleyball team remained at No. 5 in the AVCA Collegiate Beach Top 10.

The Rainbow Wahine (3-3) host defending national champion USC (5-2) at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the T.C. Ching Complex courts. The Women of Troy fell a spot to No. 3 after losing to Florida State (9-0) last week.

The Seminoles moved up to No. 2 behind Pepperdine (4-0). UCLA (4-3) dropped one place to No. 4 after losing to Florida State last week.

Rounding out the top 10 are Long Beach State (1-5), Arizona (5-1), Georgia State (9-1), Stetson (9-10) and Florida International (5-2).

One response to “UH men’s volleyball team drops a spot in AVCA poll”

  1. allie says:

    this team looks done for the year

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