Check out all the NCAA Tournament semifinals to follow today and how to follow the matches live.
No. 4 seed Ball State (26-4, 13-3 MIVA) vs. UC Irvine (20-8, 7-3 Big West)
Match vitals: 3:30 p.m. in Los Angeles
Follow live: Live stats, Live video (ESPN+)
Season series: First meeting this season
All-time series: UC Irvine leads 7-4
Last meeting: UC Irvine swept Ball State in 2019.
How they got here: Ball State defeated Pepperdine in five games in the NCAA Tournament regional finals. UC Irvine defeated Penn State in five games in the opening round and then upset the No. 1 seed UCLA in the regional finals.
NCAA Tournament record: Ball State (12-30); UC Irvine (11-4)
NCAA Tournament appearances: Ball State (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2022, 2026); UC Irvine (2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2024, 2026)
NCAA Tournament titles: Ball State (none); UC Irvine (2007, 2009, 2012, 2013)
Ball State player accolades this season: Patrick Rogers (MIVA Player of the Year, First-Team All-American, First-Team All-MIVA); Lucas Machado (Second-Team All-American, First-Team All-MIVA); Ryan Louis (Second-Team All-MIVA, All-American Honorable Mention); Braydon Savitski-Lynde (Second-Team All-MIVA, All-American Honorable Mention); Will Basilio (All-American Honorable Mention)
UC Irvine player accolades this season: Will D’Arcy (First-Team All-Big West, All-American Honorable Mention); Andrej Jokanovic (National Newcomer of the Year, Second-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West, Big West All-Freshman Team); Shane Aitken (First-Team All-American, All-Big West Honorable Mention); Trevor Clark (Second-Team All-American, All-Big West Honorable Mention); Cameron Kotsy (Big West All-Freshman Team, All-American Honorable Mention); Micah Goss (All-American Honorable Mention)
What to know: Ball State a week after winning its first non-consolation NCAA Tournament match since 1973 will now attempt to reach the NCAA Tournament finals in program history. Outside attacker Patrick Rogers had back-to-back aces in the fifth-game overtime to cap off the team’s comeback victory against Pepperdine in the regional finals. Rogers leads the MIVA and is in the nation’s top 10 with both a 3.94 kills per game average and a .405 attack percentage. In addition, Ball State setter Lucas Machado has guided the offense to a nation-best .385 attack percentage. UC Irvine outside attacker Andrej Jokanovic is in the top five of the Big West averaging both a 3.37 kills per game and a 0.43 aces per game. Jokanovic also had 14 kills in the regional finals upset victory against UC Irvine, including having seven kills and one error in the final two games. Along with Jokanovic, Trevor Clark had double-digit kills and hit at least .400 in each of UC Irvine’s NCAA Tournament matches last week. The pin-hitter enters the semifinals second in the nation with a .501 attack percentage.
No. 2 seed Hawai’i (28-5, 9-1 Big West) vs. No. 3 seed Long Beach State (25-4, 8-2 Big West)
Match vitals: 6:30 p.m. in Los Angeles
Follow live: Live stats, Live video (ESPN+), Radio feed
Season series: Hawai’i leads 2-1.
Last meeting: Long Beach State defeated Hawai’i in five games in the Big West Tournament finals.
All-time series: Long Beach State leads 54-51
All-time series in NCAA Tournament: Tied at 1-1
How they got here: Hawai’i defeated USC in four games in the NCAA Tournament regional finals. Long Beach State swept Loyola in the NCAA Tournament regional finals.
NCAA Tournament record: Hawai’i (13-8); Long Beach State (25-12)
NCAA Tournament appearances: Hawai’i (1995, 1996, 2002, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026); Long Beach State (1970, 1973, 1990, 1991, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
NCAA Tournament titles: Hawai’i (2002, 2021, 2022); Long Beach State (1991, 2018, 2019, 2025)
Hawai’i player accolades this season: Tread Rosenthal (First-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West); Adrien Roure (Second-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West); Kristian Titriyski (First-Team All-Big West); Louis Sakanoko (First-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West); Quintin Greenidge (First-Team All-Big West, All-American Honorable Mention); Justin Todd (All-American Honorable Mention)
Long Beach State player accolades this season: Jackson Cryst (Second-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West, Big West All-Freshman Team); Kellen Larson (Second-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West); Skyler Varga (First-Team All-American, First-Team All-Big West); Wojciech Gajek (Second-Team All-American, Big West All-Freshman Team); Jake Pazanti (Big West All-Freshman Team, All-American Honorable Mention); Ben Braun (All-American Honorable Mention)
What to know: Hawai’i and Long Beach State for the fourth time in less than a two-month span will face each other, but this time with a spot in the NCAA Tournament finals on the line. Hawai’i swept a two-match road series against Long Beach state in the regular season and was on the verge of beating the Beach again in the Big West Tournament finals. Long Beach, though, fought off five match-point opportunities to win the fourth game in overtime and then hit .500 in the decisive fifth-game to win the Big West title. Freshman opposite Wojciech Gajek in the victory had a season-high 27 kills on a .489 attack percentage. Gajek also has more than 15 kills and hit more than .350 in all three of the Beach’s matches against Hawai’i this season. Hawai’i setter Tread Rosenthal is second in the nation with a 10.75 assists per game average and has guided the offense to the fourth-best attack percentage in the nation at .366. In addition, outside attacker Louis Sakanoko leads Hawai’i with a 3.18 kills per game average and has double-digit kills in all three of the Rainbow Warriors postseason matches.