Brenden Sander, Price Jarman, Tim Dobbert and Wil Stanley celebrate during the match against Long Beach State. (Ari Davis)
The BYU men's volleyball team will continue its season after receiving an at-large bid to the 2017 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship.
The Cougars will be the No. 3 seed and will face No. 6 Barton on Tuesday, May 2, at 4 p.m. MDT at Ohio State University's St. John Arena.
The winner of that game will face No. 2 Long Beach State in the national semifinal.
May 2 will mark the first-ever meeting between BYU and Barton and the first time BYU has ever played a Conference Carolinas team.
Six teams will participate in the tournament. No. 1 Ohio State (Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association), No. 2 Long Beach State (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), No. 5 Penn State (Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) and No. 6 Barton (Conference Carolinas) earned their respective conference's automatic bid.
No. 3 BYU and No. 4 Hawaii were the two at-large selections.