It’s been a big week for Gabi Garcia Fernandez. The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation named BYU’s senior opposite its conference player of the year for the second consecutive season last Wednesday. On Friday, he put down a team-high 12 kills in the Cougars’ MPSF tournament semifinal win over Grand Canyon, hitting .417 clip and adding four aces and four blocks.

A number of these players are set to face-off at the 2021 MPSF Men's Volleyball Championships and even if they walk away empty handed, they will still come out of the season with some hardware.

Starting Thursday, the seven men’s volleyball teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation will kick off the 2021 MPSF Championship Tournament in Provo, Utah. No. 1 seed and host BYU welcomes the event to the Smith Fieldhouse for the fifth time in the last eight years and the eighth time overall.

BYU is ready to defend its top-seed in its home gym this weekend as the MPSF Men's Volleyball Championships get going.

The point of this article is to set up the best matchups of the upcoming 2021 MPSF Men's Volleyball Championships and provide predictions, but here’s the truth: every match in the tournament should be a good one. 

The lineups of the seven teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation are absolutely dripping with talent. Four MPSF-ers have earned national player of the week honors from the AVCA so far this season, and the reigning national player of the year also calls the conference home. 

The 2021 MPSF Men's Volleyball Championship is set to get underway on Thursday, April 22 with the quarterfinal round and conclude on Saturday, April, 24 with the champion being crowned.

Starting Thursday, the seven men’s volleyball teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation will kick off the 2021 MPSF Championship Tournament in Provo, Utah. No. 1 seed and host BYU welcomes the event to the Smith Fieldhouse for the fifth time in the last eight years and the eighth time overall. 

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Cameron Kosty, son of Stanford men’s volleyball head coach John Kosty, walked into his father’s home office. “Dad,” he said, “you’re smiling. You’re happy today.”

In the history of collegiate men’s volleyball, no conference can touch the MPSF. The league boasts 16 national championships since 1992, alums in every Olympics since 2000, and some of the most legendary coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball.