| 2021 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors volleyball | |
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Big West Regular Season Champions | |
| Conference | Big West Conference |
| Record | 17-1 (10-0 Big West) |
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| Home stadium | Stan Sheriff Center |
The 2021 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors volleyball team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH) in the 2021 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. The Rainbow Warriors, led by 12th-year head coach Charlie Wade, played home games at Stan Sheriff Center on the UH campus in the Honolulu neighborhood of Mānoa. The Rainbow Warriors, members of the Big West Conference, were picked by Big West coaches to win the conference in its preseason poll.[1] After a late start was announced, Hawaii went undefeated in conference play.[2] The Rainbow Warriors suffered their first and only setback in the semifinals of the Big West Tournament, forcing them to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.[3] Despite the setback, Hawai'i received the #1 seed in the national tournament and went on to win the National Championship with straight set wins over UC Santa Barbara in the semifinals[4] and BYU in the national championship.[5] The national championship is Hawai'i's first men's volleyball national championship after they had to vacate the 2002 national championship.
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 1 Hawaii †y | 10 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 17 | – | 1 | .944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 3 UC Santa Barbara ‡y | 7 | – | 3 | .700 | 16 | – | 5 | .762 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 7 Long Beach State | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 7 | – | 5 | .583 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 14 UC San Diego | 3 | – | 7 | .300 | 5 | – | 13 | .278 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CSUN | 2 | – | 8 | .200 | 2 | – | 9 | .182 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Irvine | 2 | – | 8 | .200 | 2 | – | 14 | .125 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – 2021 Big West Tournament champion
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- ^ "No. 2/1 Hawai'i is the coaches pick to win Big West in 2021". Off the Block. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
- ^ "Big West green lights 2021 men's volleyball season". Off the Block. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
- ^ "UC San Diego upsets top-ranked Hawaii in Big West men's volleyball semifinals". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
- ^ "#1 UH men's volleyball National Championship bound, semifinal sweep of UCSB". KITV. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ "Hawaii men's volleyball team sweeps BYU to capture NCAA championship". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved May 8, 2021.