NCAA men's volleyball bracket 2026: Schedule, TV channels, live streams, scores for college championship
Are top seed UCLA and defending champion Long Beach State on a collision course for a third straight final? Here's how to tune in and watch every match.
NCAA men's volleyball bracket 2026: Schedule, TV channels, live streams, scores for college championship originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The NCAA men's volleyball tournament is back and bigger than ever for 2026.
The bracket has expanded from nine to 12 teams, with seven automatic qualifiers and five at-large teams. That opens the door for more schools to compete but the usual suspects enter postseason play as the favorites. One of this year's top three seeds — No.
1 UCLA, No. 2 Hawaii and No. 3 Long Beach State — has won every NCAA title since 2018.
Every championship match in that span except 2021, when Hawaii beat BYU for the title, has featured a matchup of two of those three schools in the final. Defending champion Long Beach and UCLA have met in the final the last two years, with the teams splitting the titles. Will they make it three in a row or will Hawaii or another team break through this year?