The University of Hawai‘i women's volleyball team will play New Mexico Friday to open the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship in Los Angeles, it was announced today.

Hawai‘i (28-2), ranked No. 3 in the country, is seeded No. 12 in the 64-team field and was placed in the Stanford regional.
Oklahoma (18-11) and host USC (21-9) will play in the other first-round match.
New Mexico of the Mountain West Conference is 20-9. The first-round winners play Saturday in the second round.
No. 1 Penn State, Texas, Florida State and Stanford received the top seeds.
The Rainbow Wahine earned an automatic bid into the 64-team field by winning the Western Athletic Conference tournament on Wednesday.
Hawai‘i will be making its 28th NCAA Tournament appearance and 17th in a row.
This year's semifinals and finals are Dec. 17 and 19 in Tampa Bay, Fla.

NCAA VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKET

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