The 2018 AVCA Under Armour (UA) All-America match will be played Friday, sandwiched between the NCAA Semifinals and the Final match in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 24 players who make up the two UA teams are First-Team All-Americans… the best 24 high school senior volleyball players in the country!

If we look back to the past four UA All-America matches, we will find familiar names who are now collegiate seniors playing in the NCAA tournament. There is no doubt that many of these high school seniors are imagining themselves playing in the NCAA Final Four in just one year with four chances to win it all… because they are quite literally playing on the same court as those teams the day before in the semifinals, and the day after in the finals.

It had us wondering: is the UA match an indicator of making it to the NCAA Final Four?