About UCLA Bruins Men's Volleyball
One of the most dominant programs in college sports holds court at Pauley Pavilion, when the University of California–Los Angeles Bruins Men's Volleyball team takes the floor. The Bruins play at the Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, which opened in 1965 and was renovated between 2011 and 2012. The Pauley Pavilion has hosted 14 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament finals, most recently in 2018, and will host them again in 2022. In addition to men's and women's basketball and volleyball as well as women's gymnastics, the Pauley Pavilion is famous for being the site of Mary Lou Retton's gold medal–winning performance in the 1984 Summer Olympics, and will again be an Olympic venue when it hosts judo and wrestling for the 2028 games.
UCLA Bruins Men's Volleyball have won a record 19 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament championships, as many titles as the next five teams combined, and came one win short of a 20th when it lost to Long Beach State at Pauley Pavilion in the 2018 tournament. The Bruins' 27 appearances in the tournament is also impressive, rivaled only by Penn State's 31 appearances.
The UCLA Bruins are members of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, an organization for Olympic collegiate sports not currently offered by conferences otherwise affiliated with the NCAA. In addition to men's volleyball, the Bruins are represented by the MPSF in men's and women's indoor track and field and water polo. UCLA Men's Volleyball holds its own in a tough conference featuring some of the best programs in the sport. Five out of the seven teams in the MPSF were nationally ranked at the end of the 2018 season, including #2 BYU, #3 UCLA, #8 Pepperdine, #13 Concordia Irvine and #14 Grand Canyon, with UCLA earning an at-large bid in the seven-team NCAA Men's Volleyball tournament. Follow all the exciting UCLA Men's Volleyball action online at uclabruins.com, and on Twitter @UCLAMVB.