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In 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament action Thursday at Pacific’s Chris Kjeldsen Pool, third-seeded Pepperdine and #4 USC won and advanced to the semifinals, to be held Saturday. The Waves, appearing in the national championship for the first time in two decades, rode a six-goal explosion by Chr...

The UC Santa Barbara men’s water polo team was one of the enduring stories for 2019. A program record 16-match winning streak to open the season included wins in consecutive weeks against the nation’s #1 team. That success pushed the Gauchos to the top of the CWPA rankings for the first time ever. [...

2019 has been a challenging season for the USC men’s water polo program, the defending national champions. With a new head coach — and missing key members from what is typically one of the country's strongest rosters — the Trojans struggled early and looked to be out of the picture for a 15th-straig...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Saturday in Blodgett Pool, plucky Bucknell and host Harvard competed in a winner take-all match, in this case a play-in game for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. It ended as a most memorable day in recent Bucknell men’s water polo—and one most devastating for Harvard, seekin...

Saturday at Harvard's Blodgett Pool was a shining moment for the Bucknell men's water polo program, one that will not be soon forgotten. Not only did the Bison tag an undefeated Crimson team with a 13-12 defeat — their first loss in more than a year — they also won an NCAA tournament play for the fi...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Behind an inspired performance from freshman goalie Adrien Touzot and an offensive explosion by senior Rade Joksimovic, Bucknell, the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) champions, came to Blodgett Pool and shocked host Harvard 13-12 in an NCAA play-in game, ending the Crimson'...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend saw a bittersweet ending to an impressive water polo career at one of the East’s top programs. Two minutes into sudden death overtime — in his final game wearing his school’s colors — Armen Deirmenjian hit the winning shot to give Brown a 19-18 win over St. Francis Brookl...

In Union County, Pennsylvania, more than 60% of the votes in the 2016 presidential election went for Donald J. Trump. An elite liberal arts institution, Bucknell University is in Lewisburg — dead center of the county's unexpected groundswell of support for a politician whose signature issue was immi...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. That the undefeated Harvard men’s water polo team (29-0) is enjoying the best streak in program history — and the greatest season within memory in the East — is the result of a number of factors, but perhaps none bigger than the influence of senior co-captains Charlie Owens and Austin...

The 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament field was set on Sunday, with five conferences bestowing automatic bids on their tournament champions, and two at-large bids being designated by selection. In a change from the past five years, there will not be eight participants; the Southern California In...

Sunday saw a whirlwind of activity in pools across the country, as championships were decided in the nation’s varsity water polo conferences. But, the most contentious decision for the 2019 polo season — which teams would receive at-large berths — was resolved outside the water. In a web-update post...

Following another day of close matches — and a couple of surprise outcomes — the bracket for the 2019 NCAA Men's Tournament is almost complete. Following are the conference winners:Golden Coast Conference: Pepperdine (24-7; on a seven-match winning streak) captures the title and NCAA automatic qual...

What a day for underdogs in NCAA men’s varsity water polo. Three of the nation’s top four teams lost on the second day of conference post-season play, entirely scrambling the picture for the upcoming NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. One of Saturday's biggest upsets involved defending champs USC, wh...

Friday saw the opening of tournament play in five conferences that will send teams to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament as well as the one Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which will send Whittier and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to the new DIII Collegiate Championships, no...

With the postseason for every NCAA varsity conference slated to begin this Friday, there was little change in the rankings of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20 poll. There was, however, a couple of noteworthy matches last week that have impact on this weekend’s postseason action. A much...

For the past two decades, anyone who wanted to take the pulse of American water polo could type “Water Polo Planet” in their browser and be linked to a cornucopia of information on the sport unmatched anywhere in the world. Launched in 2002 by Richard “Doc” Hunkler and Joan Gould — referee Loren Ber...

With the regular season now finished in all men’s water polo contests, it’s on to the postseason for teams in the Golden Coast Conference, Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Northeast Water Polo Conference, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ...

The 2019 NCAA men’s season reads much like a Hollywood script; the favorite gets pushed around by fresh-faced upstarts, stares blankly into an ignominious end to its season—then rallies behind a grizzled veteran. It’s no a script; it’s Trojan pride at its finest — which is why USC has emerged at the...

BROOKLYN, NY. Today, for the first time this season, the Pac-12 Networks will broadcast a men’s water polo match, an occasion worthy of both celebration and inquiry. Celebration because of the high production values of Pac-12 broadcasts. Questions are also fair game. More than halfway through the se...

There’s no question that the 2019 season is one of the most volatile in recent memory, and this uncertainty is reflected in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20 poll. Stanford had ten-straight wins going into last Saturday's match in Los Angeles against a desperate USC team. A 9-8 loss to ...