UH volleyball plays South Dakota on Friday in Omaha, Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. | Sean Thomas/The Cougar

UH volleyball returns to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000 as the 5-seed in the Stanford Quarter and will face South Dakota in the first round at 3:30 p.m. on Friday in Omaha, Nebraska.

“This was the first goal we had as a team was to make it to the NCAA Tournament,” said UH head coach David Rehr. “Our goal was to get to the tournament and we went beyond that and are a 5-seed now.”

The Cougars, who finished as co-champions of the American Athletic Conference along with UCF, earned the conference’s automatic bid on Friday night by winning two sets against the Knights in their regular-season finale.

Highlighted by a 20-match win streak, UH finished the regular season at 28-3 overall and 19-1 in the AAC.

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