CWPA Releases 2017 Men’s Varsity Preseason Polls

December 3, 2016;Cal vs USC at NCAA championship game at Spieker Aquatics, Berkeley, CA © photo by Catharyn Hayne - KLC fotos

Cal players with 2016 NCAA Men's Championship hardware. Photo Courtesy: Catharyn Hayne

In case you missed it, the men’s varsity water polo season kicks off this weekend. Just in time, Ed Haas, Director of Communications for the Collegiate Water Polo Association, has released the first of the CWPA’s weekly polls tracking the country’s top varsity programs.

There’s no surprises this year; Cal is on top by virtue of winning the 2016 NCAA Men’s title with an 11-8 overtime victory over University of Southern California.

The East’s top team is #10 Harvard, coming off its first-ever Final Four appearance thanks to wins over Bucknell and UC Davis in NCAAs—the Crimsons’ first-ever trip to the country’s biggest polo tournament.

2017 Men’s Varsity Top 20 (Preseason)
Rank	Team	2016 Final Poll	Points
1	University of California	1	99
2	University of Southern California	2	96
3	Stanford University	5	88
4	University of California-Los Angeles	3	87
5	University of the Pacific	4	79
6	University of California-Santa Barbara	6	73
7	Pepperdine University	7	70
8	Long Beach State University	8	69
9	University of California-Davis	10	53
10	Harvard University	9	47
11	Princeton University	13	46
12	University of California-San Diego	14	41
13	University of California-Irvine	19	39
14	Bucknell University	11	37
15	Brown University	12	32
16	California Baptist University	15 (T)	22
17	Loyola Marymount University	17	21
18	George Washington University	15 (T)	18
19 (T0	Pomona-Pitzer Colleges	18	12
19 (T)	St. Francis College Brooklyn	20	12
RV	United States Air Force Academy	RV	8
RV	Santa Clara University	RV	4
RV	San Jose State University	NR	4

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