After an incredible first two sets, UCLA pulled away from two-time defending champ Hawaii to win the 2023 NCAA men’s volleyball championship, its 20th in program history. Watch the full title match replay here.
Subscribe to the NCAA Championship YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NCAAChampionships?sub_confirmation=1
34 Comments
Congratulations to UCLA!!
UCLA MEN'S VOLLEYBALL WINS THEIR 25TH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Been waiting way too long for this
I love the Hawaii fans and all the support they give their volleyball team, but I was so happy for UCLA to win. UCLA setter is Christenson's future replacement in the national team
After seeing the penn state vs Hawaii game, I knew Hawaii won’t get the three peat. The passers were not as precise as the past two years. I think one of the commentator mentioned before that the passing of gage, Colton and Chaz was the key for that 2021 championship. Passing was also good in 2022. I don’t know what happened this year but it seemed that they relied too much on their attacking skills.
Congratulations UCLA! 🎉
We are the champions we are the champions 🎉😊
W
Gooch transferring to UCLA was big. Rowan stepping up and playing as true freshman at that level was pretty amazing. He is a lot younger than a lot of players on the court. Knight and Norris played their best matches of the year. When McHenry gets a good set, he is hard to stop. Champlin was solid on reception all night. It was a team win. UCLA didn't have one guy.
Hawaii reception put them out of system a lot and they got behind in sets and it hard to come back on a team like UCLA. Hawaii traditionally is excellent at reception but maybe Penn State serving put some doubt in their minds? It was uncharacteristic how they weren't able to receive better.
I bet David thanked Knight after the 1st set. David was playing well at first. Then It was 20-20 and David hit two out in a row. Then the ball came right at him and it would have been a difficult dig but possible dig that David was not able to control and Hawaii went up 23-20.
UCLA got the next point and Knight was up to serve at 21-23. Knight served a tough serve and UCLA got the point. Hawaii called time out and a big percent of the time players miss their serve out of a time out but Knight nailed an ace to get the game back to 23-23. That changed the entire match.
UCLA' has a deep bench of players that are contributing while Hawaii is mostly just the starting players. They were gassed out during the 3rd and 4th sets.
Watching this game is just a reminder how bad of a setter Knipe is
10:58 😨
how come norris didn’t play a lot before??
Super good game! Both teams are amazing! But the two stupid commentors, what is wrong with them!!! they should be neutral, but they totally support Hawaii. WTF.
I feel like Humler should have been given a chance once they went down 1-2, Galloway was clearly struggling
why so many international players, aren't there any US kids talented enough to make it to their own colleges?
1:16:00
Fuck Hawaii, lesssgooo bruins
what does it mean for a blocker to "front"? I assume it means to stand in front of a hitter uncommitted, but not 100%. answer only if you know please, @48:05 ish
number 2 from UCLA similar to kylian mbape
They were so tired my Hawaiian boys and they still
Played bomb I love you boys ! Wahiawa Oahu boy here supporting u for life ❤
The line judge on hawaii's side is blind, bro miscalled 3 hits that were in by over a foot. Thank goodness UCLA called those.
Clearly they needed Scott Sterling to beat UCLA
ukraine colors win… hawaii…. after what happened last month…. they put it right in our faces
8:48 👌
1:41:03…. Total net violation. GREAT call on Hawaii. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
50:50 under-rated play. The most wtf moment of the match lol
Alex knight is so cute 😍😍😍😍
There all so fine
We should play volley ball players more well played guys great game
😊
Number 2 is way too excited getting a block while he had a net violation 21:50
Only 6,3?! (cries in 5,9)
the last ball the ball was too free😂😂