Perhaps the sight of Brigham Young blue or the sound of the Cougars’ roar won’t be so fierce in Long Beach.
Even so, Hawaii’s men’s volleyball team knows it can’t simply hope that the third meeting with BYU will be different than the first two.
The third time certainly wasn’t a charm for Pepperdine, who the Rainbow Warriors slammed Saturday night 25-23, 25-20, 25-15 in front of a season-high crowd of 6,691 at Stan Sheriff in Honolulu to punch a ticket to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation semifinals.
After finishing a perfect 18-0 atits home, Hawaii (25-4) get the second-seeded Cougars on Thursday at the home of the tournament’s top seed, Long Beach State.