National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship

Dates and site: The May 5 semifinals and May 7 final will be at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion.

Field: Four teams will participate, with three teams automatically qualifying from the East, Midwest and West regions. The final team will be selected at large.

Selection date: May 1.

2004 champion: Brigham Young.

Top contenders: The top five teams in the American Volleyball Coaches Association/College Sports Television Division I-II poll as of April 12 were UCLA, Pepperdine, Penn State, Long Beach State and Hawaii. The top five teams in the AVCA Division III poll were Juniata, New York University, Springfield, Carthage and Stevens Tech.

Championship notes: This will be the 13th time UCLA has hosted the national tournament. The Bruins have won the championship nine times as host ... Long Beach State coach Alan Knipe can become only the third man to win a NCAA volleyball championship as a player and coach. He won the title as a player in 1991 at Long Beach State. The others to accomplish the feat are Rod Wilde (1978 as a player at Pepperdine and 1986 as a coach at the same institution), and Bob Yoder (1977 as a player at Southern California and 1988 as a coach at the same institution) ... UCLA has been ranked No. 1 in 10 of the 14 AVCA polls this season.

National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship

Dates and site: The semifinals and final will be May 13-15 at Michigan's Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Field: An eight-team, single-elimination tournament will decide the champion. One team from the following conferences will automatically qualify: the Collegiate Water Polo Association, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Western Water Polo Association. The remaining teams will be selected at large.

Selection date: May 9.

2004 champion: Southern California.

Top contenders: UCLA, Southern California, Stanford and Hawaii sit atop a recent Collegiate Water Polo Association poll.

Championship notes: UCLA has outscored its opponents, 75-15, in the first quarter through its March games. The Bruins, 22-0 through March, have had their best start since the 1996 championship season ... Hawaii rode an eight-game winning streak into April, including wins over ranked California and Long Beach State. The team's fourth-place ranking is its best in four years ... Last year's Southern California team was the first to go undefeated in NCAA women's water polo history. Sophomore Brittany Hayes leads the Women of Troy with 31 goals this season ... Stanford has built on its 2004 third-place season with the return of 11 players. Nancy El-Sakkary and Katie Hansen lead the Cardinal in scoring.