STEPHENVILLE, Texas – It's postseason time for Tarleton State Beach Volleyball. Conference USA announced its 2026 Beach Volleyball Championship bracket on Sunday, with the Texans opening play against Sam Houston Thursday at 8:30 a.m. CT.
 
The Texans are slotted as the 8-seed in the tournament, which will commence at Sugar Beach in Youngsville, Louisiana, Thursday-Saturday. The postseason conference tournament is a double-elimination bracket with a single-elimination championship match competing for the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
 
This will be the first meeting between 8-seed Tarleton State (10-16) and 9-seed Sam Houston (2-19) this season. The two were scheduled to play on March 7 at the UMHBeach Spring Break Bash in Belton, Texas, but the match was canceled due to inclement weather. Tarleton State is 2-0 all-time against Sam Houston, with both wins in 2025, the last in the 2025 C-USA Beach Volleyball Championship, a 3-0 Texan sweep.
 
The winner of the Tarleton State-Sam Houston match will face 1-seed Florida Atlantic on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. CT. The winner of that match will advance in the winner's bracket to face the winner of the match between 4-seed South Florida and 5-seed Tulane. That match will be Friday at 10 a.m. CT. The loser of a potential match against 1-seed Florida Atlantic will drop to the contender's bracket to face the loser of USF-Tulane on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. CT.
 
The loser of the Tarleton State-Sam Houston match will drop to the contender's bracket and play on Thursday at 4 p.m. CT against the loser of 2-seed UAB and 7-seed UTEP. The victor of that potential match would advance in the contender's bracket to play Thursday at 7 p.m. CT against the loser of 3-seed Florida International and 6-seed Missouri State.
 
The full seeds list for the Conference USA 2026 Beach Volleyball Championship; 1-seed Florida Atlantic, 2-seed UAB, 3-seed Florida International, 4-seed South Florida, 5-seed Tulane, 6-seed Missouri State, 7-seed UTEP, 8-seed Tarleton State, 9-seed Sam Houston. There will be 16 matches total across three days, with the championship match scheduled for Saturday at 11:30 a.m. CT.
 
All matches will be streamed on ESPN+.
 
Tarleton State Beach Volleyball enters conference play on a four-match winning streak, its longest winning streak in program history. Tarleton State Beach Volleyball, in its third year as a program, has the most wins in a single-season in team history with 10.
 
The full 2026 Conference USA Beach Volleyball Championship bracket can be found here.