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Check out all the college men’s volleyball matches to follow today and how to follow the matches live.
No. 1/1 Hawai’i (4-0, 0-0 Big West) vs. No. 3/2 UC Santa Barbara (4-0, 0-0 Big West)
Match vitals: 4 p.m. in Santa Barbara, California
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What to know: A three-match series with possibly the No. 1 ranking in college men’s volleyball on the line will get underway as No. 2/3 UC Santa Barbara plays host to No. 1/1 Hawai’i. Both teams enter this Big West opener as the top two offensive programs in the nation. Hawai’i after ending last season with a nation-best attack percentage currently leads the country with a .389 attack percentage, while UC Santa Barbara is second hitting .361. In addition, the Rainbow Warriors and Gauchos each through four matches this season have hit at least .300 in every match. UC Santa Barbara has two of the national leaders in individual offensive categories. Setter Casey McGarry leads the nation with a 11.43 assists per game average, and middle attacker Keenan Sanders has a nation-best .644 attack percentage. Sanders also has a combined 40 kills and two attack errors during the team’s four-match winning streak to open the season. Hawai’i opposite Rado Parapunov, the 2020 Big West Player of the Year, is third in the conference and among the national leaders with a 3.77 kills per game average. Parapunov has double-digit kills in every match this season along with hitting .402. He also had back-to-back 20 kill performances in 2019 when the Rainbow Warriors swept the Gauchos in a two-match series — the last time the two teams have played each other. The opener of this three-match series and the match Friday will be considered Big West matches. The finale between Hawai’i and UC Santa Barbara on Saturday will count as a non-conference match.
No. 4/4 Pepperdine (7-2, 7-2 MPSF) vs. No. 8/10 UCLA (8-3, 8-3 MPSF)
Match vitals: 5 p.m. in Los Angeles, California
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No. 12 UC Irvine (0-4, 0-0 Big West) vs. No. 13 UC San Diego (0-4, 0-0 Big West)
Match vitals: 4 p.m. in Irvine, California
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No. 14 Ohio State (5-6, 4-3 MIVA) vs. Ball State (7-4, 4-3 MIVA)
Match vitals: 6 p.m. in Columbus, Ohio
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Concordia-Irvine (2-6, 2-6 MPSF) vs. USC (1-6, 1-6 MPSF)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Irvine, California
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NAIA National Match of the Day
No. 1 Grand View (18-0) vs. No. 8 Park (14-3)
Match vitals: 6 p.m. in Des Moines, Iowa
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