National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship Records Book
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NATIONAL COLLEGIATE MEN’S VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS BOOK 2018 Championship 2 History 3 All-Tournament Teams 4 Individual Records 7 Team Records 13 Won-Lost Records in Tournament Play 19 All-Time Results 20 2018 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS Long Beach State rallies to top UCLA, win 2018 men’s volleyball national title match in five sets: Top-ranked Long Beach State showed its grit and determination as the Beach defeated No. 3 UCLA, 3-2 [25-19, 23-25, 20-25, 26-24, 15-12], to capture the 2018 NCAA National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship. The national title is the second in program history as the 2018 squad joins the 1991 team as the only two men’s volleyball programs at Long Beach State to win a national champion- ship. Head coach Alan Knipe secured his first national title as a head coach, and second overall as he was a junior on the 1991 squad. After winning the first set, Long Beach State (28-1) dropped the next two and had its back up against the wall in the fourth set, but the Beach battled back and knocked off UCLA (26-8) on its home court of Pauley Pavilion in front of an electric crowd of 7,248 to force a fifth set. Then, with the match tied at two sets a piece, Long Beach State earned a 15-12 victory over the Bruins to capture the title. The Beach had three players named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team led by Most Outstanding Player, Josh Tuaniga. Joining Tuaniga on the All-Tournament Team were juniors TJ DeFalco and Kyle Ensing. Tuaniga distributed 46 assists and led the Beach to a .325 attack percentage in the contest. Meanwhile, Ensing led the team with his second-straight 20-kill performance, to go along with four blocks, and four aces. DeFalco added 18 kills on .419 hitting, while adding 12 digs for a double-double. The Bruins narrowly out-hit Long Beach State for the match .328 to .325, but UCLA was limited to a match-low clip of .062 in the do-or-die fifth. Four separate Bruins hitters finished with double-figure kills, led by AVCA First-Team All-America middle blocker Daenan Gyimah’s match-high 21 kills. Senior opposite Christian Hessenauer had a 12-kill, 10-dig double-double and senior libero JT Hatch led the Bruins’ back row efforts with 11 digs. The Beach opened the game with back-to-back kills from Ensing and DeFalco and never looked back. Long Beach State led the entire first set as the Beach hit .478 in the frame. Long Beach State used a pair of 4-1 runs to open up a 19-12 lead over UCLA, before winning the set, 25-19. Long Beach State continued its hot hitting into the second set, however, UCLA began to heat up. The two teams battled each other through 12 ties and a pair of lead changes. Eventually, UCLA broke through and put the set away winning 25-23. With the match even at one set a piece, Long Beach State took a 6-3 lead in the third set, but the lead didn’t last long as UCLA used a 4-0 run to jump ahead 7-6. The Beach and the Bruins traded points through eight ties and five lead changes, but UCLA emerged victorious taking a 2-1 lead with a 25-20 win over the Beach. The Bruins took an early lead in the fourth set and just when it looked like things were over for the Beach, Long Beach State pulled out a gritty come-from-behind win. The Beach chipped away at UCLA’s lead and used a 6-1 run capped by a huge kill from DeFalco to take its first lead of the set (19-18). From there, the two teams fought tooth-and-nail and found themselves deadlocked at 24-all. With the set tied and the title on the line, Tuaniga put the set away with a kill followed by an ace to force a fifth and deciding set. Blocking ended up being the decisive factor for the 49ers in the fifth, as they recorded half of their eight overall blocks in that set alone. UCLA had a narrow edge early on in the fifth, but Long Beach State was able to start a match-clinching charge when DeFalco stuffed a Gyimah tip in the middle to tie it up at 7-7. Ensing and Nick Amado (four kills, six blocks overall on the night) put the 49ers up for good with blocks on back-to-back plays at 11-9, then DeFalco capped off a 4-0 run for his team with another solo block. A serve into the net from Tuaniga coupled with a just-wide line shot from Ensing brought the Bruins back within one at 12-11, but Long Beach State claimed three of the final four points to finish off the match. Amado ended the contest with a quick hit in the middle. 2018 RESULTS Opening Round Games Ohio St. 3, King (TN) 0 Ohio St. 3, UC Irvine 2 UCLA 3, Harvard 1 Semifinals Long Beach St. 3, Ohio St. 1 UCLA 3, BYU 1 Championship Long Beach St. 3, UCLA 2 King (TN) vs. Ohio St. was played at Ohio St., while remaining matches were played at Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA. 2018 Championship 2 HISTORY RESULTS Year Champion (Record) Coach Score Runner-Up Host or Site Match Total Attendance Attendance 1970 UCLA (24-1) Al Scates 3-0 Long Beach St. UCLA 3,143 — 1971 UCLA (29-1) Al Scates 3-0 UC Santa Barbara UCLA — — 1972 UCLA (27-7) Al Scates 3-2 San Diego St. Ball St. — — 1973 San Diego St. (21-5) Jack Henn 3-1 Long Beach St. San Diego St. 7,762 13,412 1974 UCLA (30-5) Al Scates 3-2 UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara 3,000 4,842 1975 UCLA (27-8) Al Scates 3-1 UC Santa Barbara UCLA 8,000 11,500 1976 UCLA (15-2) Al Scates 3-0 Pepperdine Ball St. 4,140 5,514 1977 Southern California (18-1) Ernie Hix 3-1 Ohio St. UCLA 4,500 5,152 1978 Pepperdine (21-4) Marv Dunphy 3-2 UCLA Ohio St. 4,756 7,415 1979 UCLA (30-0) Al Scates 3-1 Southern California UCLA 6,100 6,870 1980 Southern California (22-6) Ernie Hix 3-1 UCLA Ball St. 3,000 5,242 1981 UCLA (32-3) Al Scates 3-2 Southern California UC Santa Barbara 5,000 3,946 1982 UCLA (29-0) Al Scates 3-0 Penn St. Penn St. 5,641 7,476 1983 UCLA (27-4) Al Scates 3-0 Pepperdine Ohio St. 3,638 6,580 1984 UCLA (38-0) Al Scates 3-1 Pepperdine UCLA 9,809 12,898 1985 Pepperdine (25-2) Marv Dunphy 3-1 Southern California UCLA 6,378 7,908 1986 Pepperdine (22-7) Rod Wilde 3-2 Southern California Penn St. 3,610 6,925 1987 UCLA (38-3) Al Scates 3-0 Southern California UCLA 8,952 11,689 1988 Southern California (34-4) Bob Yoder 3-2 UC Santa Barbara Purdue Fort Wayne 6,207 12,807 1989 UCLA (29-5) Al Scates 3-1 Stanford UCLA 7,244 9,436 1990 Southern California (26-7) Jim McLaughlin 3-1 Long Beach St. George Mason 5,511 8,347 1991 Long Beach St. (31-4) Ray Ratelle 3-1 Southern California Hawaii — 5,184 1992 Pepperdine (24-4) Marv Dunphy 3-0 Stanford Ball St. 7,391 13,102 1993 UCLA (24-3) Al Scates 3-0 CSUN UCLA 8,482 11,018 1994 Penn St. (26-3) Tom Peterson 3-2 UCLA Purdue Fort Wayne 7,908 15,495 1995 UCLA (31-1) Al Scates 3-0 Penn St. Springfield, Mass. 4,376 7,925 1996 UCLA (26-5) Al Scates 3-2 Hawaii UCLA 7,688 11,396 1997 Stanford (27-4) Ruben Nieves 3-2 UCLA Ohio St. 3,798 6,237 1998 UCLA (28-4) Al Scates 3-0 Pepperdine Hawaii 9,822 18,901 1999 BYU (30-1) Carl McGown 3-0 Long Beach St. UCLA 8,026 13,513 2000 UCLA (29-5) Al Scates 3-0 Ohio St. Purdue Fort Wayne 2,738 5,031 2001 BYU (23-4) Carl McGown 3-0 UCLA Long Beach St. 4,807 9,009 2002 *Hawaii (24-8) Mike Wilton 3-1 Pepperdine Penn St. 5,357 10,614 2003 **Lewis (29-6) Dave Deuser 3-2 BYU Long Beach St. 4,317 8,157 2004 BYU (29-4) Tom Peterson 3-2 Long Beach St. Hawaii 4,105 7,812 2005 Pepperdine (25-2) Marv Dunphy 3-2 UCLA UCLA 6,853 9,800 2006 UCLA (26-12) Al Scates 3-0 Penn St. Penn St. 5,453 8,916 2007 UC Irvine (29-5) John Speraw 3-1 Purdue Fort Wayne Ohio St. 4,755 6,884 2008 Penn St. (30-1) Mark Pavlik 3-1 ***Pepperdine UC Irvine 4,531 9,003 2009 UC Irvine (27-5) John Speraw 3-2 Southern California BYU 3,015 5,579 2010 Stanford (24-6) John Kosty 3-0 Penn St. Stanford 6,530 10,395 2011 Ohio St. (26-6) Pete Hanson 3-2 UC Santa Barbara Penn St. 3,683 7,444 2012 UC Irvine (26-5) John Speraw 3-0 Southern California Southern California 9,612 13,987 2013 UC Irvine (25-7) David Kniffin 3-0 BYU UCLA 6,295 11,186 2014 Loyola Chicago (29-1) Shane Davis 3-1 Stanford Loyola Chicago 4,485 8,806 2015 Loyola Chicago (28-2) Shane Davis 3-2 Lewis Stanford 2,419 4,643 2016 Ohio St.