NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship

NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship

Founded	1969
Number of teams	4
Current champions	UCLA (10)
Most successful club(s)	California (13)
Website	NCAA.com

The NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship is an annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. It has been held every year since 1969. With a limited number of NCAA water polo programs at the national level, all men's teams, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, are eligible to compete each year. The tournament was expanded from a 4 team bracket in 2013 by adding two play-in games that are contested by the bottom four seeds, effectively creating a 6 team bracket with a first round bye for the top two teams.

While the championship often includes teams from around the country, most programs are located within the state of California, and no school from outside the California has ever surpassed third place or participated in the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship game.

California is the most successful program, with 13 titles. The Golden Bears are followed by Stanford and UCLA (10 each).^[1]

Championships Summary

Year	Team Champion	Score	Team Runner-Up	Location	Venue
1969	UCLA	5–2	California	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1970	UC Irvine	7–6 (3OT)	UCLA	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1971	UCLA (2)	5–3	San Jose State	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1972	UCLA (3)	10–5	UC Irvine	Albuquerque, NM	Armond H. Seidler Natatorium
1973	California	8–4	UC Irvine	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1974	California (2)	7–6	UC Irvine	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1975	California (3)	9–8	UC Irvine	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1976	Stanford	13–12	UCLA	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1977	California (4)	8–6	UC Irvine	Providence, RI	Smith Swim Center^[2]
1978	Stanford (2)	7–6 (3OT)	California	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1979	UC Santa Barbara	11–3	UCLA	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1980	Stanford (3)	8–6	California	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1981	Stanford (4)	17–6	Long Beach State	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1982	UC Irvine (2)	7–4	Stanford	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1983	California (5)	10–7	USC	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1984	California (6)	9–8	Stanford	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1985	Stanford (5)	12–11 (2OT)	UC Irvine	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1986	Stanford (6)	9–6	California	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1987	California (7)	9–8 (OT)	UC Irvine	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1988	California (8)	14–11	UCLA	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1989	UC Irvine (3)	9–8	California	Indianapolis, IN	Indiana University Natatorium
1990	California (9)	8–7	Stanford	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1991	California (10)	7–6	UCLA	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1992	California (11)	12–11 (3OT)	Stanford	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1993	Stanford (7)	11–9	USC	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1994	Stanford (8)	14–10	USC	Long Beach, CA	Belmont Plaza Pool
1995	UCLA (4)	10–8	California	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
1996	UCLA (5)	8–7	USC	La Jolla, San Diego, CA	Canyonview Pool
1997	Pepperdine	8–7 (2OT)	USC	Fort Lauderdale, FL	International Swimming Hall of Fame Aquatics Complex
1998	USC	9–8 (2OT)	Stanford	Newport Beach, CA	Marian Bergeson Aquatic Center
1999	UCLA (6)	6–5	Stanford	La Jolla, San Diego, CA	Canyonview Pool
2000	UCLA (7)	11–2	UC San Diego	Malibu, CA	Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool
2001	Stanford (9)	8–5	UCLA	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
2002	Stanford (10)	7–6	California	Los Angeles, CA	Burns Aquatics Center
2003	USC (2)	9–7 (2OT)	Stanford	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
2004	UCLA (8)	10–9 (OT)	Stanford	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
2005	USC (3)	3–2	Stanford	Lewisburg, PA	Kinney Natatorium
2006	California (12)	7–6	USC	Los Angeles, CA	Burns Aquatics Center
2007	California (13)	8–6	USC	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
2008	USC (4)	7–5	Stanford	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
2009	USC (5)	7–6	UCLA	Princeton, NJ	DeNunzio Pool
2010	USC (6)	12–10 (OT)	California	Berkeley, CA	Spieker Aquatics Complex
2011	USC (7)	7–4	UCLA	Berkeley, CA	Spieker Aquatics Complex
2012	USC (8)	11–10	UCLA	Los Angeles, CA	McDonald's Swim Stadium
2013	USC (9)	12-11 (2OT)	Pacific	Stanford, CA	Avery Aquatic Center
2014	UCLA (9)	9-8	USC	San Diego, CA	Canyonview Pool
2015	UCLA (10)	10-7	USC	Los Angeles, CA	Spieker Aquatics Center
2016				Berkeley, CA	Spieker Aquatics Complex
2017				Los Angeles, CA	Uytengsu Aquatics Center

Team titles

Team	#	Winning years	Runner-up years
California	13	1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2006, 2007	1969, 1978, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1995, 2002, 2010
Stanford	10	1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002	1982, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008
UCLA	10	1969, 1971, 1972, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2014, 2015	1970, 1976, 1979, 1988, 1991, 2001, 2009, 2011, 2012
USC	9	1998, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013	1983, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015
UC Irvine	3	1970, 1982, 1989	1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1985, 1987
Pepperdine	1	1997
UC Santa Barbara	1	1979
Long Beach State	0		1981
Pacific	0		2013
San Jose State	0		1971
UC San Diego	0		2000

Recent Championships

2009 Championship

Semifinals scores (Princeton University, December 5, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm (ET)):

#1 USC 13 vs. #4 Princeton 3; #2 UCLA 9 vs. #3 Loyola Marymount 8 (2 OT)

National Championship (Princeton University, December 6, 2:00 pm (ET)):

#1 USC (25-2) vs. #2 UCLA (23-6)

Semi-finals		Final

December 5, 3:00 pm
#1 USC	13
#4 Princeton	3

		December 6, 2:00 pm
		#1 USC	7
		#2 UCLA	6


		Third place
December 5, 5:00 pm
#2 UCLA	9
#3 Loyola Marymount	8 (2 OT)

2009 NCAA All-Tournament Teams:

First-Team – Shea Buckner, USC; Scott Davidson, UCLA; Ben Hohl, UCLA; Tibor Forai, LMU; J. W. Krumpholz, USC; Andy Stevens, LMU; Jordan Thompson, USC (MVP)
Second-Team – Edgaras Asajavicius, LMU; Matt Hale, Princeton; Cullen Hennessy, UCLA; Chay Lapin, UCLA; Matt Sagehorn, USC; Josh Samuels, UCLA; Eric Vreeland, Princeton; Griffin White, UCLA; Mark Zalewski, Princeton

On January 12, 2010, the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Committee has reprimanded the University of Southern California men’s water polo team for inappropriate behavior following the championship event at the 2009 NCAA Water Polo Championship.^[3]

2010 Championship

Semifinals (December 4, 2010, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California, Berkeley, California)

USC def. St. Francis (NY) 10-7
California def. Loyola Marymount 7-6

Championship (December 5, 2010, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California, Berkeley, California)

USC def. California 12-10 (OT)

Semi-finals			Final

December 4
USC	10
St. Francis (NY)	7

			December 5
			USC	12
			Cal	10 (OT)


			Third place
December 4		December 5
Cal	7	Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount	6		St. Francis (NY)

2010 NCAA All-Tournament Teams:

First-Team – Peter Kurzeka, USC (MVP); Ivan Rackov, CAL; Zachary White, CAL; Tibor Forai, LMU; Nikola Vavic, USC; Andy Stevens, LMU; Brian Dudley, CAL
Second-Team – Boris Plavsic, SFC; Ikaika Aki, LMU; Marko Gencic, SFC; Jeremy Davie, USC; Joel Dennerley, USC; Matt Burton, USC; Cory Nasoff, CAL

2011 Championship

Conferences receiving automatic qualification included the Collegiate Water Polo Association, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Western Water Polo Association. The remaining team was selected at-large without geographical restrictions.

Semifinals (December 3, 2011, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California, Berkeley, California)

USC (22-3) def. Princeton (21-9) 17–4
UCLA (23-4) def. UC-San Diego (17-9) 10–1

Championship (December 4, 2010, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California, Berkeley, California)

Third-place game, Princeton def. UC San Diego 9-7
Championship game, USC def. UCLA 7–4

Semi-finals			Final

December 3
USC	17
Princeton	4

			December 4
			USC	7
			UCLA	4


			Third place
December 3		December 4
UCLA	10	Princeton	9
UC-San Diego	1		UC-San Diego	7

2011 NCAA All-Tournament Teams:

First-Team – Joel Dennerley (MOP), Peter Kurzeka and Nikola Vavic, USC; Josh Samuels and Cullen Hennessy, UCLA; Thomas Nelson, Princeton and Graham Saber, UC San Diego.
Second-team – Matt Rapacz, Griffin White and Cristiano Mirarchi, UCLA; Jeremy Davie and Mace Rapsey, USC; Drew Hoffenberg, Princeton, and Brian Donohoe, UC San Diego.

2012 Championship

The NCAA men's water polo championship was held December 1 and 2, 2012 at Southern California's McDonald’s Swim Stadium. Conferences receiving automatic qualification included the Collegiate Water Polo Association, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Western Water Polo Association. The remaining team was selected at-large without geographical restrictions. All four championship games will be streamed live on www.NCAA.com.

Semifinals - December 1, 2012

Southern California (27-0) vs. Air Force (19-10) 4 p.m. ET
UCLA (27-4) vs. St. Francis (N.Y.) (16-8) 6:12 p.m. ET

Finals - December 2, 2012

Third-place game played at 4 p.m. ET
The championship game played at 6:12 p.m. ET.

Semi-finals			Final

December 1, 4:00 PM
#1 Southern California	18
#4 Air Force	7

			December 2, 6:12 PM
			Southern California	11
			UCLA	10


			Third place
December 1, 6:12 PM		December 2, 4:00 PM
#2 UCLA	17	St. Francis Brooklyn	14
#3 St. Francis Brooklyn	3		Air Force	8

2013 Championship

The NCAA men's water polo championship was held December 7 and 8, 2013 at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center. This season marked the introduction of an expanded format. Six teams were seeded into the tournament, with the bottom four participating in Play-in games to fill the four team bracket. Four conferences received automatic qualification: the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), and the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA). The remaining two teams were selected at-large without geographical restrictions. The tournament was seeded by the Men’s Water Polo Committee on December 1, 11:00 p.m. (ET)/8:00 p.m. (PT). Conference representatives were Southern Cal (MPSF), Whittier College (SCIAC), UC San Diego (WWPA), and St. Francis College Brooklyn (CWPA).

Play-in – December 5, 2013

Game 1: #5 St. Francis College Brooklyn (22-10) def. #4 UC San Diego (14-13) 6-5
Game 2: #3 Stanford (21-5) def. #6 Whittier College (19-12) 20-3

Semifinals – December 7, 2013

1 p.m. – Seed No.1 Southern Cal (26-4) def. #5 St. Francis College Brooklyn (23-10) 10–3
2:45 p.m. – Seed No. 2 Pacific (22-4) def. #3 Stanford (22-5) 11–10

Finals – December 8, 2013

Third-place game played at 1 p.m.
The championship game played at 3 p.m.

Semi-finals			Final

December 7, 1:00 PM
#1 Southern California	10
#4 St. Francis Brooklyn	3

			December 8, 3:00 PM
			Southern California	12
			Pacific	11(2 OT)


			Third place
December 7, 2:45 PM		December 8, 1:00 PM
#2 Pacific	11	St. Francis Brooklyn	2
#3 Stanford	10		Stanford	17

2014 Championship

The NCAA men's water polo championship was held December 6 and 7, 2014 at UC San Diego's Canyonview Aquatic Center, La Jolla, CA. The tournament continued with the new format by adding two more teams to play in the four-team play-in games. Conferences received automatic qualification were the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), and the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA). The remaining teams were selected at-large without geographical restrictions. They were selected by the Men’s Water Polo Committee on November 23, 2014.

Play-in – November 29, 2014

Game 1: #4 UC San Diego (15-9) def. #5 Brown University (26-6) 12–7
Game 2: #3 USC (22-6) def. #6 Whittier (23-12) 19-4

Semifinals – December 6, 2014

Game 3, 1:00 PM PT: #1 seed UCLA (27-3) def. #4 seed UC San Diego (16-9) 15–6
Game 4, 3:12 PM PT: #3 seed USC (23-6) def. #2 seed Stanford (25-3) 12–11 in triple OT

Championship Dec. 7, 2014

Third Place Game, 1:00 p.m. PT: #2 seed Stanford def. #4 seed UC San Diego 20–11
National Championship Game, 3:12 p.m. PT: #1 seed UCLA def. #3 seed USC 9–8

2015 Championship

The NCAA men's water polo championship will be held December 5 and 6, 2015 at UCLA's Spieker Aquatics Center, Los Angeles, CA. The tournament continued with the new format by adding two more teams to play in the four-team play-in games. Conferences received automatic qualification were the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), and the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA). The remaining teams were selected at-large without geographical restrictions. They are selected by the Men’s Water Polo Committee on November 22, 2015.^[4]

Play-in – December 2, 2015

Game 1: #5 UCSD (14–13) def. #4 Princeton (22–4) 12–7
Game 2: #3 USC (20–6) def. #6 Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges (21–7) 20–5

Semifinals – December 5, 2015

Game 3, 1:00 PM PT: #1 seed UCLA (28–0) def. #5 UCSD (15–13) 17–4
Game 4, 3:12 PM PT: #3 USC (21–6) def. #2 seed California (23–6) 9–6

Championship Dec. 6, 2015

Third Place Game, 1:00 p.m. PT: Cal def. UCSD 20–9
National Championship Game, 3:12 p.m. PT: UCLA def. USC 10–7^[5]

References

↑ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_water_polo_champs_records/2013-14/champs.pdf
↑ http://www.browndailyherald.com/2007/09/05/new-details-shed-light-on-demise-of-swim-center/
↑ NCAA Men’s Water Polo Committee Reprimands University of Southern California Men’s Water Polo Team, NCAA News release, January 12, 2010
↑ NCAA Men's Water Polo Committee announces championship selections, NCAA.com, November 22, 2015
↑ No. 1 UCLA Repeats as NCAA Champion, NCAA.com, December 6, 2015

External links

NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship

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