2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament - (Tag)

EDITOR’S NOTE: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s water polo tournament will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend, with the national championship being held at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Looking back at the history of the country’s most prestigious polo tourname...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s water polo tournament will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend, with the national championship being held at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Looking back at the history of the country’s most prestigious polo tourname...

The quarterfinals for the 2018 NCAA Men’ Water Polo Tournament took place in overcast, rainy conditions at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center—but the results were nothing but sunshine for UC San Diego and UCLA. Both teams gained decisive victories to advance to Saturday’s semifinal match-ups as part of...

The 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament has moved to Palo Alto, California for games starting this afternoon—and the two quarterfinal matches will be streamed live on the Pac-12 Network. This is awesome news for those of us who cannot be at Stanford for a 4 p.m. EST match between Long Beach State ...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor's Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. With over 40,000 commercial swimming pools throughout the state of California, the landscape is dotted with 2...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor USC blitzed Stanford for five goals in the first period, then had to hang on for dear life as a desperate Cardinal rally fell short, making the Trojans 14-12 victors in the 2018 Men’s Water Polo Tournament final at Avery Aquatic Center. “There are goin...

Is the women's senior class of 2015 one of the best of all-time in the sport of swimming? In the fall of 2014 when the seniors were committing (because back then, swimmers waited until they were seniors to commit), the class was definitely stacked. But nobody knew how stacked the class really was. T...

In what potentially will be a stunning turn of events, UCLA, defending national champions and the nation's #2 ranked team, may not make the cut for the 2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament. The Bruins dropped a 9-7 decision to the Cardinal on Saturday in the semifinals of the MPSF Tournament. The l...

By Michael Randazzo. Swimming World Contributor On Sunday, the NCAA men’s varsity water polo season came to a close as USC jumped out to a huge lead then held on for a 14-12 national title win over Stanford at Avery Aquatic Center. It was a fitting end to the NCAA’s fiftieth national championship to...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor’s Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. Munatones' son Skyler is a junior playing for the UC San Diego men's water polo team. While UCLA (11 NCAA tit...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With conference tournament play underway this weekend, by Sunday night all eight berths in the 2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament will be finalized; six automatic berths for conference winners and two at-large bids claimed by whichever of the Big Fo...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor PRINCETON, NJ. All season long, Barry King, head coach for George Washington’s men’s water polo team, has preached to his players the importance of “Plus One:” not just qualifying for, but winning an NCAA first round match. After advancing to the progr...

In a recent post, Swimming World identified that—despite a break-out season that resulted in a 5th-place ranking nationally and a second place regular season finish in their conference—the University of California Santa Barbara (18-8; 3-1 GCC) will not participate in the 2018 Golden Coast Conference...

Tournament bids are now set and the real action begins Saturday with regional play-in matches for the 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. Princeton will host George Washington at 1 p.m. (EST) while Long Beach State will face Pomona-Pitzer at 10 p.m. (EST) in Long Beach. By virtue of a 12-10 win o...

Day One of NCAA men’s varsity conference tournament play went almost entirely as expected, with a couple of upset wins and a few close calls by favored teams. In the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), both Cal—the tournament’s number 3 seed—and UCLA, which is #4, advanced easily. After #5 Pe...

Saturday at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center, two noteworthy streaks were on the line in semifinal matches for the 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. One amounted to a relatively impossible dream: UC San Diego's quest to be the first non-Division I team in two decades to advance to the national c...

The Sagehens of Pomono-Pitzer got off to a fast start in Saturday’s 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament opening round match, connecting on goals from Dylan Elliot on a 5-meter penalty shot and Adam Ward at even strength to jump out to a 2-0 lead on host Long Beach State at the Ken Lingren Aquatics...

Over the past week, Swimming World posted previews of the six conferences that will send teams to the 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament which will be held from Thursday, November 29 through December 2 at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. The Western Water Polo Association; our pick is: University...