Top college men’s volleyball matches to follow tonight

Photo courtesy of John Fajardo and Long Beach State athletics

Check out all the matches today involving NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams and how to follow them live.

No. 1/1 Long Beach State (20-0, 5-0 Big West) vs. No. 4/4 UC Irvine (17-6, 3-2 Big West)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Irvine, California
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, In-match tweets
What to know: Coach David Kniffin won’t have a lot of time to make adjustments for the home-and-home series finale against No. 1/1 Long Beach State after No. 4/4 UC Irvine had its worst offensive performance of the season. The Anteaters had a season-low .197 attack percentage in a five-game road loss to the 49ers on Friday, including hitting .167 in the decisive fifth game. Both UC Irvine and 49ers entered this conference series with two of the nation’s top five offenses. Long Beach State had a nation-best .409 attack percentage, while UC Irvine was fourth in the nation hitting .343 and before the loss had at least a .300 attack percentage in 12 of its last 15 matches. Despite the series-opening loss, outside attacker Aaron Koubi finished with a team-high 21 kills on a .410 attack percentage. Koubi, though, was the only Anteater to have more than 10 kills against the 49ers. All-American outside attacker TJ DeFalco in the series opener led all players with both five aces and 22 kills. This was the second time this season that DeFalco had at least 20 kills against a top-five nationally ranked team. The 2017 National Player of the Year also began the weekend fourth in the country hitting .417 and among the nation’s top 20 averaging 3.49 kills per game. Long Beach State remains the only undefeated team in the nation and has dropped a combined six games the entire season, including the two games versus UC Irvine on Friday. If you the 49ers defeat the second-place Anteaters again, they can expand their first-place lead in the Big West to three matches. It also would be two wins away from clinching the inaugural Big West regular season championship and the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament.

Lincoln Memorial (11-11) vs. Charleston (11-8, 3-7 EIVA)
Match vitals: 1 p.m. in Charleston, West Virginia
Follow live: Live stats, Online video

Coker (11-8) vs. Alderson Broaddus (3-16)
Match vitals: 3 p.m. in Philippi, West Virginia 
Follow live: Live stats, Online video

No. 9/7 Ohio State (18-4, 9-2 MIVA) vs. No. 10/9 Lewis (16-9, 7-4 MIVA)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Columbus, Ohio 
Follow live: Live stats, In-match tweets

No. 15 Fort Wayne (16-9, 4-7 MIVA) vs. Lindenwood (8-13, 2-9 MIVA)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Fort Wayne, Indiana 
Follow live: Live stats, Online radio, In-match tweets

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Penn State (12-8, 7-2 EIVA) vs. Harvard (8-11, 7-2 EIVA)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Cambridge, Massachusetts 
Follow live: Live stats, In-match tweets

George Mason (13-10, 9-0 EIVA) vs. Princeton (9-12, 5-4 EIVA)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Princeton, New Jersey 
Follow live: Live stats, In-match tweets

No. 12 Ball State (14-11, 7-4 MIVA) vs. Quincy (12-15, 0-11 MIVA)
Match vitals: 7:30 p.m. in Muncie, Indiana
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, Radio feed, In-match tweets

No. 6/5 Loyola (19-5, 9-2 MIVA) vs. McKendree (11-11, 6-5 MIVA)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Lebanon, Illinois 
Follow live: Live stats, Online video

No. 14 Concordia-Irvine (13-13, 4-6 MPSF) vs. Stanford (5-17, 2-7 MPSF)
Match vitals: 5 p.m. in Stanford, California 
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, In-match tweets

No. 2/2 BYU (18-5, 8-1 MPSF) vs. No. 13 Grand Canyon (16-9, 3-7 MPSF)
Match vitals: 8 p.m. in Provo, Utah 
Follow live: Live stats, Online video In-match tweets, TV (BYUtv)

No. 3/3 UCLA (20-5, 7-2 MPSF) vs. USC (6-17, 2-7 MPSF)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Los Angeles
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, Radio feed, In-match tweets (TV: Pac-12 Network)

No. 8/10 CSUN (13-7, 3-2 Big West) vs. No. 11 UC Santa Barbara (9-9, 2-3 Big West)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Santa Barbara, California 
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, In-match tweets

No. 7/7 Hawai’i (14-6, 2-3 Big West) vs. UC San Diego (9-13, 0-5 Big West)
Match vitals: 7 p.m. in Honolulu 
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, Radio feed, In-match tweets

Division III National Matches of the Day

No. 3 Stevens Tech (19-4) vs. Nazareth (17-11)
Match vitals:
Noon in Rochester, New York
Follow live: Live stats, Online video

Lancaster Bible (18-4) vs. Wells (17-8)
Match vitals:
Noon in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Follow live: Online video

No. 15 Elmira (19-8) vs. MIT (14-6)
Match vitals:
2:30 p.m. in Elmira, New York
Follow live: Live stats, Online video

No. 1 Springfield (24-1) vs. No. 8 SUNY New Paltz (17-6)
Match vitals:
6 p.m. in Springfield, Massachusetts
Follow live: Live stats, Online video, In-match tweets