with a win over #8 Stanford, the Beach team is putting themslelves in a solid position for a trip to Gulf Shores

the NCAA tournament expands to 16 teams this year.

LB has been around #14-16 all year in rankings

Big Wins: #13 Cal Poly, #8 Stanford, #16 Stetson
Sig Loss: #18 Pepperdine

major matches, the rematch with Pepperdine on APril 7 is huge, with both teams probably fighting for tose last of at-large teams , then LMU, Arizona, and likely Hawaii and/or Cal Poly in teh BWCT

LB has shown it could win the AQ, with the matches with Hawaii & Cal Poly, which will be a dog-fight up in SLO

The team has lost so many 2-3 matches (#4 LMU, #13 Cal / twice, Hawaii) so a large part of the season has been 'close but no cigar' to date, up to the 3-2 breakthru win over Stanford @ Palo Alto

need a couple more of those ranked wins to probabley secure a berth in the NCAAs

Long Beach is the host university for 2025 & 2026 as the NCAA championships come to Huntington Beach, and sponsored by Long Beach State - which is pretty prestigious considering the growth of the sport, and LB still the only Big West sponsor of teams in the area as Irvine/Full do not sponsor Beach Volleyball - so will be a big deal for the Beach Program, on top of host the 2024 Men's Volleyball Championships at teh Pyramid (fingers crossed that Mr. Nikolov stays for a few more years, we can hope to have Nikolov and Godbold anchoring what could be a blockbuster team in 2024 with Mr. Torwie as well, & Briggs should they all stay to play out their elgility - would be a dynamite team). Briggs could realistically be part of the National USA team, as could Nikolov part of the National Bulgarian team for the Olympics in 2024.