The eighth-ranked Rainbow Wahine are 25-6. Texas State, the Southland Conference champion, is 17-14. Texas plays LSU (21-7) in the other first round match. No. 11 Texas (23-4) upset No. 1 Nebraska (28-1) last night, 22-30, 28-30, 30-27, 30-27, 15-12.

"I don't think it's the most ideal place to go," Hawai'i coach Dave Shoji said today before boarding a plane back to Honolulu. "It's a long, long travel time for us and we're headed in the wrong direction right now. If we win (against Texas State), we get to play the team that just beat the No. 1 team in the country, and they're something like 27-0 at home in the last two years."

Texas is unbeaten at home this season (10-0) and has won 26 of its last 27 home matches dating back to the end of the 2003 season.

Nebraska received the top seed overall in the tournament. The Big 12 placed seven teams in the NCAAs. Other top seeds were No. 2 Penn State (29-2), which is in the same (State College) regional as Hawai'i, No. 3 Washington (26-1) and No. 4 Arizona (22-5). Hawai'i was the seventh seed overall.

"Penn State gets an unbelievably easy bracket every year," Shoji said. "We didn't catch any breaks last year having to go to Colorado State and this is the same type of thing. We have to go to a real good team's home court."

The Rainbow Wahine defeated Utah State yesterday to win their eighth consecutive Western Athletic Conference championship and an NCAA automatic berth.

WAC teams Nevada and Utah State also were selected as at-large teams.

The Advertiser's Ann Miller, ncaa.org and texassports.com contributed to this report.

First- and second-round matches will be played at 16 campus sites. A list of the first-round match-ups follows:

STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Texas

Hawai'i (25-6) vs. Texas State (17-14)

Texas (23-4) vs. LSU (21-7)

December 2-3 at Missouri

Arkansas (20-11) vs. St. Mary's (California) (19-9)

Missouri State (24-8) vs. Missouri (22-4)

December 2-3 at Tennessee

Minnesota (24-7) vs. Winthrop (28-5)

Jacksonville State (19-10) vs. Tennessee (21-8)

December 2-3 at Penn State

Cornell (19-5) vs. Long Island (25-13)

Binghamton (20-11) vs. Penn State (29-2)

OMAHA, NEBRASKA REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Nebraska

Nebraska (28-1) vs. Alabama A&M (15-11)

American (25-9) vs. Duke (23-7)

December 2-3 at UCLA

UCLA (18-10) vs. Kansas (15-14)

Long Beach State (25-6) vs. San Diego (22-5)

December 2-3 at Louisville

Louisville (29-2) vs. Western Kentucky (31-2)

Kentucky (17-11) vs. Maryland (27-4)

December 1-2 at Florida

Kansas State (20-10) vs. Florida A&M (22-5)

Florida Atlantic (29-2) vs. Florida (30-2)

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Stanford

Stanford (25-5) vs. Nevada (18-12)

Santa Clara (23-4) vs. Sacramento State (26-8)

December 2-3 at Southern California

Pepperdine (17-11) vs. Brigham Young (25-3)

UC Santa Barbara (21-8) vs. Southern California (16-10)

December 2-3 at Ohio State

Ohio State (21-8) vs. Marshall (26-5)

Ohio (31-2) vs. Alabama (23-10)

December 2-3 at Utah

Utah (22-8) vs. Loyola Marymount (19-10)

Utah State (21-12) vs. Arizona (22-5)

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS REGIONAL

December 2-3 at Colorado State

Washington (26-1) vs. Siena (20-11)

Colorado (15-12) vs. Colorado State (20-8)

December 2-3 at North Carolina

Purdue (23-8) vs. Virginia Commonwealth (22-11)

College of Charleston (30-1) vs. North Carolina (23-9)

December 2-3 at Wisconsin

Wisconsin (23-6) vs. Loyola (Illinois) (13-17)

Valparaiso (27-7) vs. California (18-10)

December 1-2 at Notre Dame

Northwestern (19-11) vs. Texas A&M (16-13)

Dayton (24-10) vs. Notre Dame (28-3)