The Hawaii women’s volleyball team was seeded 15th in the NCAA Tournament today and will play Portand State in Thursday’s first round in Seattle.

The Rainbow Wahine (28-2) are the lowest seed in the Seattle regional hosted by the University of Washington. The PSU Vikings are 21-8.

Should Hawaii advance to the second round, the Wahine would play the winner of the Michigan (23-9)-Washington (21-8) match. Hawaii defeated the Wolverines in last year’s regional final. 

Also seeded in Hawaii’s bracket is No. 2 Nebraska (27-2), No. 7 California (25-3) and No. 10 Minnesota (24-8). Utah State (24-8), which upset the Wahine in the Western Athletic Conference tournament final, plays Cal in the first round.

Florida (27-1) is the overall No. 1 seed and is in the regional hosted by Texas (23-5), the ninth seed. Other seeds in the Austin regional are Illinois (22-8) No. 8 and Purdue (21-10) 16th. 

Stanford (24-3) is the No. 3 seed in the regional hosted by Dayton (27-3), the 14th seed. USC (25-4) is No. 6 and Tennessee (24-6) 11th.

. In the regional hosted by Penn State, the Nittany Lions (26-5) are seeded fourth, Northern Iowa (30-2) fifth, Duke (24-6) 12th and LSU (25-4) 13th.