back in February on a damp rainy night,

beat the Waves when Moni went Moni in the 5th set

Pepperdine looked pretty talented

Beach starters then and now, shows how good a coaching job Knipe has done,

Siapanis > Kandev
Harmon (Libero 2) > Larson (connely will be the official L2)
Herschy > Dickinson
Bouchkov > Braun

Hawaii's home court advantage? they've got nothing on Pepperdine this year. Pepperdine wouldn't have made it without severe home cooking. Loyola was their first top 10 win outside of Malibu the entire year, they played almost their entire non conf at Firestone. Won the MPSF because it was hosted at Firestonge. but they are there so all that counts I guess, and they are good

Beach should be rested ready, match may come down to just handling pressure - big/unusual combination of seniors (Varga, Dickenson, McRaven) and frosh (Moni, Larson, Kandeve).