Members of No. 3 seed UCLA men’s volleyball gather around their coaches in Covelli Center in Columbus, Ohio, at the NCAA finals. Top-seeded Long Beach State slashed UCLA’s chance at a third-straight national title with a 3-0 win Monday night. (Lex Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated May 13 at 10:17 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The month of May became synonymous with UCLA magic the past two years.
Spring of 2023 and 2024 were painted blue and gold, as the Bruins stood atop collegiate men’s volleyball and returned to Westwood with national hardware.
Collegiate men’s volleyball games have long been victim to the curse of three.
From 2012 to 2024, each national champion team went back to back. But the three-peat remains elusive.
This post was updated May 11 at 9:47 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The famous quote goes, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
For the reigning back-to-back national champions who are three sets away from the first three-peat since 1984, success is definitely not final.
This post was updated May 8 at 9:37 p.m.
Facing an unknown opponent is always a wild card.
There’s no way to know if a team has the chops to beat them until both squads are on the hardwood.
At a level of competition that brings out the best, overcoming each obstacle takes considerably more power, energy and grit than the last.
And with each challenge, the team is forced to look inside themselves and find out what type of competitors they truly are.
Despite falling short in the MPSF semifinals, No. 3 seed UCLA men’s volleyball (20-6, 10-2 MPSF) secured the second at-large bid in this week’s NCAA quarterfinals and will face No.
This post was updated May 6 at 8:42 p.m.
No. 3 seed UCLA men’s volleyball (20-6, 10-2 MPSF) will face No. 6 seed Belmont Abbey (17-8, 12-2 Conference Carolinas) on Thursday in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.
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