UC Irvine Anteaters

IRVINE — Events such as Tuesday's NCAA title celebration on campus might be becoming familiar to the UC Irvine men's volleyball team. But if one wondered about complacency creeping in after the Anteaters claimed their second straight championship...

BASEBALL UC Santa Barbara 7, UC Irvine 6 SANTA BARBARA — Senior closer Race Parmenter let a 6-4 lead get away in the ninth inning as the host Gauchos capped a three-run inning with a two-run, walk-off home run by Joey Epperson to claim the...

So cool were the UC Irvine Anteaters, even when top-ranked and top-seeded Brigham Young had three set points and seemed poised to generate some momentum Saturday night in the NCAA men's volleyball championship match at Pauley Pavilion. Even when BYU had...

LOS ANGELES — Thundering chants of U-C-I and B-Y-U perhaps might have faded under a more resonant echoes of Dy-Nas-Ty Saturday night as the UC Irvine men's volleyball team earned its second straight NCAA championship and its fourth in seven seasons....

UC Irvine became the first team since UCLA in 1996 to successfully defend an NCAA men's volleyball title, defeating top-seeded Brigham Young in straight sets, 25-23, 25-22 and 26-24, at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday night. The second-seeded Anteaters...

Sometimes it takes a losing coach to give the best assessment of the next event. Penn State men's volleyball coach Mark Pavlik lost to top-seeded Brigham Young on Thursday night in the NCAA semifinals at Pauley Pavilion, and he saw second-seeded UC...

UC Irvine senior Kristina Smith has been named Big West Conference Player of the Year in women's tennis. Smith, who was named first-team all-conference in singles and doubles, is UCI's first Player of the Year since 2005. She has twice been named first-...

UC Irvine women's golfers Michelle Park and Luciane Lee have been selected to participate as individuals in the NCAA West Regional, May 9-11 at the Stanford Golf Course. Park, a senior, has posted four top-10 finishes this season and leads UCI with a...

LOS ANGELES -- Loyola ended its first-ever trip to the NCAA men's volleyball championships with a semifinal loss to UC Irvine Friday night at Pauley Pavilion. Second-seeded UC Irvine (24-7), the defending national champions, beat the third-seeded...

Loyola of Chicago ended its first trip to the NCAA men’s volleyball championships with a semifinal loss to UC Irvine at Pauley Pavilion on Friday. Second-seeded UC Irvine (24-7), the defending national champions, beat the third-seeded Ramblers...

This place isn't unexpected for the UC Irvine men's volleyball team. It is in the NCAA final again, for the fourth time. And the second-seeded Anteaters will get the chance to defend their national title after beating third-seeded Loyola of Chicago,...

LOS ANGELES — Loyola of Chicago was the first first-time participant in the four-team NCAA men's volleyball championship since UC Irvine had that distinction in 2006. A lot has obviously changed for the Anteaters since that time, as they moved...