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The UC Irvine Invitational was renamed The Barbara Kalbus Invitational in 2017 to honor Dr. Barbara Kalbus<\/strong>, who was seemingly at every important competition involving college or USA Water Polo events in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Kalbus\u2014inducted in 1993 into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame\u2014worked tirelessly to anchor the administration of all details great and small: From running the desk at virtually every important tournament over a 30 year span, to serving as President of USA Water Polo, to editing the NCAA playing rules, to specifying each of the desk jobs in writing in the NCAA rule book, she made significant and lasting contributions to the sport.<\/p>\n

This year’s invitational promises to be hotly contested and different from previous editions.\u00a0 It includes the entire top ten from the coaches poll, which makes it the only tournament all season to include such a strong field, and the seeding according to the rankings creates interesting match-ups and answers the question: Who are the best teams in NCAA women’s water polo in late February?<\/p>\n

The full tournament field features #1 Stanford, #2 UCLA, #3 Hawai’i, #4 USC, #5 Arizona State, #6 UC Irvine, #7 Cal, #8 UC San Diego, #9 UC Santa Barbara, #10 Michigan, #12 Long Beach State, #13 San Jose State, #15 UC Davis, #16. Loyola Marymount, #21 Pacific and #22 San Diego State.<\/p>\n

To keep up with all the action at the 2020 Barbara Kalbus Invitational, click here<\/a> for the tournament central.<\/em><\/p>\n

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USC’s Verica Bakoc\u00a0 Photo Courtesy: John McGillen<\/p><\/div>\n

While the results seem definitive, they don’t always match what happens in late April and mid-May when conference championships and the NCAA title are decided. The 2019 edition of this tournament exemplified this phenomenon when USC topped Stanford to take the Kalbus title, but ultimately fell to the Cardinal in the NCAA Championship game<\/p>\n

On Friday, the most intriguing games will be the 2-3 match-ups within each bracket, the standout likely being the #8 vs #9 game between sister UCs\u2014San Diego and Santa Barbara.\u00a0 The Gauchos opened their season with an upset of UCLA, and met the Tritons at their tournament in La Jolla two weekends ago, with the Tritons taking the contest 11-7.<\/p>\n

Since that game, both teams experienced ups and downs, the Gauchos losing to UC Irvine 10-4 and the Tritons giving USC a fight, and then losing to ASU for third place in their tournament.\u00a0 Their rematch will be played at Corona Del Mar High School on Friday afternoon at 4:15 p.m. (all times are PST).\u00a0 The winner advances to play the winner of the Stanford\/San Diego State game on Saturday morning and will be guaranteed a top 8 finish with all remaining games at UC Irvine. The loser falls into the 9-16 bracket at Corona Del Mar. This season the Tritons joined the Big West\u2014part of their transition this season to Division 1 athletics. These teams are scheduled to meet again in La Jolla on March 28 in a conference match up.<\/p>\n

The top-seeded Stanford Cardinal are 9-0 for the fourth consecutive season, but in an Olympic year characterized by parity, they have been tested.\u00a0 Most recently, the Fresno State Bulldogs trailed 5-4 at halftime and tied the game at 5 in the third quarter, before the Cardinal prevailed 8-6.\u00a0 And in late January, Stanford found themselves tied at 5 at halftime with UC Irvine and rallied for a 10-9 decision.\u00a0 John Tanner’s<\/strong> team is 15-0 against the Aztecs (4-6) since 2003.<\/p>\n

California (8-4) plays Michigan (5-6) for the third time in less than five weeks at 3:00 p.m. at the Anteater pool.\u00a0 The seventh-seeded Bears won the first two games 8-7 and 10-8, but both contests were knotted up late in the second half.\u00a0 Expect another tight game, with a Saturday morning date for the victor with the winner of the UCLA-Pacific first round game hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n

UCLA (14-1) carries a 13 game winning streak into the tournament and has already faced seven of the entrants, including a 7-5 win over cross town rival USC in the championship game of the Triton Invitational two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Pacific (2-7) is going in the opposite direction, having lost 7 of 8 games, including a 14-7 loss to the Bruins in January at Michigan’s tournament.\u00a0 The Tigers have played all but one game against ranked opponents, including four top-ten squads.\u00a0 Adam Wright<\/strong>‘s Bruins are 11-0 all time against Pacific.<\/p>\n

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UCLA’s Adam Wright, Photo Courtesy: Minette Rubin<\/p><\/div>\n

Host UC Irvine will face fellow Big West member Long Beach State in their home waters at 4:15 p.m.\u00a0 \u00a0The Beach are off to a 7-2 start, including a pair of wins over LMU and a victory over Indiana 10-9 in the 7th place game of the Triton Invite. Meanwhile,\u00a0 the Anteaters are 9-4, including three one goal losses to Cal, Stanford, and Arizona State.\u00a0 The winner between them faces the victor between third seed USC and LMU (6-4).\u00a0 The Trojans are 7-1, and played their home opener against UC Irvine last Saturday and came away with a 9-6 victory.<\/p>\n

Arizona State (9-2) will play fellow MPSF member San Jose State in an opening round game.\u00a0 Last March, the Spartans upended ASU in Tempe, but the Sun Devils got even during the 2019 MPSF tournament.\u00a0 San Jose State (4-7), has two signature wins so far over California and UC Davis. The victor will face the winner between Hawaii (8-0) and UC Davis (7-8) in another game between Big West teams.\u00a0 UC Davis has beaten Michigan and San Jose State so far in 2020 and lost 9-8 in overtime to Cal last weekend.\u00a0 Hawaii is 19-2 all time vs. the Aggies.\u00a0 For reference, the Rainbow Wahine visited Tempe three weeks ago and beat the Sun Devils 9-7.<\/p>\n

Each team will play two games on Saturday with the semifinals set for 2:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. at the UC Irvine pool.\u00a0 The placement games are Sunday, with the Championship match to take place at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He attended UCLA as a two-sport student-athlete playing Water Polo and Junior varsity basketball for the Bruins. His postgraduate water polo playing career spanned nearly a decade and included US national club level competition while representing the Westwood, Industry Hills, and Sunset Clubs. Cohn gained international experience as a player-coach in Australia and represented the USA in the 1985 Maccabiah Games where his team won a silver medal. He was an Assistant Men's Water Polo Coach at Palomar College in San Diego. Additionally, Cohn was a college-rated water polo official from 1986 to 1992. Most recently, Bill served 5 seasons as the Assistant Coach for the San Diego State University Women's Water Polo team from 2014 through 2019. Cohn has announced College Water Polo and Swimming since 1990. He currently serves as the voice of the UC San Diego Tritons in Water Polo, Swimming, Basketball and Volleyball. 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