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Updated at 6:08 p.m., Sunday, November 30, 2008

Rainbow Wahine face Belmont in NCAA first round in Los Angeles

Advertiser Staff

NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL

* — Indicates host

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO REGIONAL

December 5-6 at Los Angeles, California

No. 7 Hawai‘i (28-3) vs. Belmont (25-7)

San Diego (23-4) vs. *Southern California (16-11)

December 5-6 at West Lafayette, Indiana

Middle Tenn. (26-7) vs. Miami (Ohio) (21-11)

Louisville (19-10) vs. *No. 10 Purdue (24-8)

December 5-6 at Gainesville, Florida

*No. 15 Florida (25-3) vs. Florida A&M (14-12)

Florida Int’l (28-6) vs. Colorado St. (22-6)

December 5-6 at Stanford, California

Pepperdine (20-7) vs. Long Beach St. (25-5)

Albany (N.Y.) (23-8) vs. *No. 2 Stanford (26-3)

UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL

December 5-6 at University Park, Pennsylania

*No. 1 Penn St. (32-0) vs. Long Island (19-11)

Yale (20-5) vs. Ohio (24-7)

December 5-6 at Dayton, Ohio

Western Mich. (26-6) vs. Dayton* (21-12)

Tennessee Tech (19-12) vs. No. 16 Tulane (27-5)

December 5-6 at Champaign, Illinois

*No. 9 Illinois (24-7) vs. Milwaukee (23-8)

Cincinnati (26-6) vs. Western Ky. (26-9)

December 5-6 at Berkeley, California

New Mexico St. (25-8) vs. St. Mary’s (Cal.) (20-7)

Siena (20-12) vs. *No. 8 California (23-6)

AUSTIN, TEXAS REGIONAL

December 5-6 at Austin, Texas

*No. 3 Texas (25-3) vs. Lamar (17-11)

Wichita St. (29-1) vs. Rice (23-7)

December 5-6 at Los Angeles, California

San Francisco (22-7) vs. Duke (24-8)

LSU (18-9) vs. *No. 14 UCLA (20-10)

December 5-6 at Washington, DC

No. 11 Oregon (23-8) vs. Delaware (19-15)

*American (24-8) vs. North Carolina (21-10)

December 5-6 at Minneapolis, Minnesota

UNI (25-8) vs. Iowa St. (19-12)

North Dakota St. (24-3) vs. *No. 6 Minnesota (26-6)

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON REGIONAL

December 5-6 at Seattle, Washington

*No. 5 Washington (24-4) vs. Portland St. (20-8)

Santa Clara (17-9) vs. Kansas St. (24-7)

December 5-6 at Clemson, South Carolina

Tennessee (22-9) vs. Clemson* (22-9)

Furman (21-13) vs. No. 12 Utah (24-5)

December 4-5 at Lexington, Kentucky

No. 13 St. Louis (28-4) vs. Alabama A&M (12-14)

*Kentucky (26-5) vs. Michigan (24-8) 

December 5-6 at Lincoln, Nebraska

UAB (26-7) vs. Missouri St. (23-12)

Liberty (25-8) vs. *No. 4 Nebraska (27-2)

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No. 6 Hawai'i will face Belmont in Friday's first round of the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship in Los Angeles, it was announced today.

The Rainbow Wahine and Bruins will play at 3 p.m. Hawai'i time at USC's Galen Center.

San Diego (23-4) will face host Southern California (16-11) in the other first round match in Los Angeles at 5 p.m. Belmont, the Atlantic Sun champion from Nashville, Tenn., is 25-7. Winners will meet in the second round on Saturday at 5 p.m. Hawai'i time in the Galen Center.

No. 1 Penn State (32-0), which won every single set during the regular season, is the tournament's top seed.

First- and second- round matches in the 64-team tournament are being played at 16 sites.

The Rainbow Wahine (28-3), the Western Athletic Conference champions, are seeded seventh overall in the tournament. No. 2 Stanford is the highest seed in the same bracket (Fort Collins, Colo.) as Hawai'i.

Texas was seeded third and Nebraska fourth.

The Pacific-10 Conference led all conferences with six teams selected. New Mexico State, the only other WAC school selected, will play St. Mary's (Calif.) in the first round.

Second-round winners advance to the regionals Dec. 12 and 13. The winners of each of the four regional championships advance to the semifinals, Dec. 18 at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb.

The NCAA Championship match is Dec. 20.

A link to a PDF of the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship bracket:

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ncaa/sports/w-volley/auto_pdf/2008D1WVBBracket-TEAMS.pdf