Deja vu. All over again.

Again.

Midway through Sunday’s televised NCAA Selection Show, Hawaii volleyball coach Dave Shoji looked at his players and said, "We’re going to Seattle."

Minutes later, the bracket flashed on the multiple screens in the Wong Hospitality Room. Third-seeded Washington would host New Hampshire in the first round. There was little surprise when, shortly thereafter, the other half of the subregional had Hawaii facing Duke.

It will be the first meeting between the two at-large teams: the Rainbow Wahine (21-6), the Big West runner-up, and the Blue Devils (22-7), who tied for third in the ACC.

It marks the third time in five years that Hawaii has been shipped to Seattle to open NCAA play. Both times, Washington eliminated Hawaii in the second round, a sweep in 2010 and a five-set heartbreaker in 2012 where the Wahine had match point but couldn’t finish.

"That was my sophomore year and it was a great game," UH senior middle Kalei Adolpho said of the 2012 match with the Huskies. "It goes right up there with the game against Stanford (a 3-1 win in 2012) and Texas (a 3-1 win that opened the 2013 season). It didn’t go our way, but it was a great match.

"(Washington) is a great team again, but first we have to look at Duke. As the (UW coach Jim McLaughlin) said, ‘It’s one game at a time.’ "

Hawaii has a good feeling about itself, coming off Saturday’s dominating win over UC Davis. The Rainbow Wahine had a balanced attack, as all five starting attackers had six or more kills against the Aggies, served fairly well (5 aces, 8 errors) and passed even better.

"The best time to peak is the postseason," junior middle Olivia Magill said. "Saturday showed we’re playing as a team. Getting to the postseason is the next step.

"(Washington) is a comfortable place to play, but it’s going to be a hard place to play. It’s a tough bracket."

Magill knows from experience how difficult opponents have it when playing the Huskies at home, where UW has won 32 straight. Not only did Magill play there when she was at Arizona the past two years, she is a Seattle native, graduating from Seattle Prep.

"I’m going there to play volleyball," she said. "I don’t want there to be any other distractions."

Also from the area is freshman hitter Megan Huff, who grew up about 25 miles south of the UW campus in Federal Way.

"It’s going to be a challenge," said Shoji, who has taken the Rainbow Wahine to the postseason in all but one of his 40 years. "Our concern is Duke, who plays in a very good conference.

"We played well Saturday, were balanced, the offense was spread out well and that’s how we want to be. It was encouraging."

While he wasn’t looking ahead to Saturday’s potential match with Washington, "I did tell the team that we had a swing for the match the last time we were there," Shoji said. "They’re pretty similar to how they were back then. They have the best player in the country (reigning national player of the year Krista Vansant, a 6-foot-2 hitter).

"We’re about as good as we were two years ago, so I’m optimistic. If we can get by Duke, we have a shot."

Hawaii is making its 33rd NCAA appearance, having only missed out in 1992. The other Big West team in the field is Long Beach State (26-4), which faces San Diego (19-11) in the subregional at UCLA. The Bruins (20-11), seeded 12th, host LIU Brooklyn in the other first-round match.

The Pac-12 had a record 10 teams selected Sunday, with two of the top seeds (No. 1 Stanford and No. 3 Washington) and three of other 12 seeded teams (No. 10 Oregon, No. 11 Arizona and No. 12 UCLA).

Nine of the previous 10 champions made the field: Penn State and Stanford (6 titles); UCLA (4); Hawaii, Long Beach State, Nebraska and USC (3); Texas (2); and Washington (1). Only Pacific (2) didn’t. The Tigers, who finished second to BYU in the West Coast Conference, saw three teams that finished below them selected in Santa Clara, San Diego and Loyola Marymount.

That decision was based on the Rating Percentage Index, where UOP was No. 49 in the RPI released Sunday. Hawaii, which had held at No. 30 for five weeks, dropped to 39 Sunday.