2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship

2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship

Dates	May 2016
Teams	8
Matches played	12
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The 2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship will be the 16th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches will be played at the UCLA Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles, California from May 13–15, 2016.^[1]

Qualification

Since there is only one NCAA championship for women's water polo, all women's water polo programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, will be eligible. For the sixth year, a total of 8 teams will be invited to the tournament. The automatic qualifiers are coming from the following conferences: Big West Conference, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and Western Water Polo Association. Three additional teams will be selected at large without geographical restrictions by the selection committee. Four lowest seeded teams will play in the two play-in games on Saturday, May 7.

Play-in games

• Site: RIMAC (UC San Diego), San Diego, California

	Play-in game
	Whittier College
	UC San Diego

	Play-in game
	San Diego State
	Wagner College

Tournament bracket

• Site: Spieker Aquatics Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, California

Fifth place

Consolation semifinals

First round

Championship semifinals

Championship

UCSD/Whittier

UCLA

UC Santa Barbara

Stanford

SDSU/Wagner

USC

Seventh place

Third place

Arizona State

Michigan

All Tournament Team

TBD

Notes

• Game time each day: Noon, 1:45 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m. (local time)

See also

• NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship

References

1. "2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship schedule". Ncaa.com. Retrieved May 6, 2016.