Hoping to repeat the drama of its NCAA Championship run two years ago, the Cardinal men’s volleyball squad will officially play together for the first time in the annual Cardinal and White Scrimmage at 4 p.m. today at Burnham Pavilion.

The scrimmage is the first of several fall matches leading up to the start of the regular season in January — the squad won’t begin practicing together until mid-October.

Six of seven starters will return from the Stanford squad that finished No. 7 in the country last year and features seniors Erik Shoji and Brad Lawson, who have been named first-team All-Americans a combined five times.

—Joseph Beyda