POLL: Harvard Enters Top 10, UCLA Remains On Top

Harvard has pierced the top 10 of American intercollegiate water polo sharing the ninth spot with Pepperdine and Princeton in the latest CWPA men’s varsity poll published on Wednesday. The Crimson earned two upset wins over UC Davis and UC San Diego. Its only loss came to fourth ranked Pacific.

2016 Men’s Varsity Top 20 (Week 2/September 14)
Rank	Team	Week 1 Poll	Points
1	University of California-Los Angeles	1	99
2	University of Southern California	2	94
3	University of California	3	92
4	University of the Pacific	4	85
5	Stanford University	5	81
6	University of California-Santa Barbara	6	75
7	Long Beach State University	7	69
8	University of California-Irvine	8	57
9 (T)	Harvard University	12	54
9 (T)	Pepperdine University	9	54
9 (T)	Princeton University	11	54
12	University of California-Davis	13	47
13	University of California-San Diego	10	45
14	Brown University	14	39
15	Bucknell University	16	31
16	California Baptist University	17	19
17	San Jose State University	18	15
18	Saint Francis College Brooklyn	RV	13
19	George Washington University	RV	12
20	Santa Clara University	20	7
RV	Loyola Marymount University	19	6
RV	Whittier College	RV	5
RV	United States Air Force Academy	15	3
RV	United States Naval Academy	RV	2

2016 Men’s Varsity Division III Top 10 (Week 2/September 14)
Rank	Team	Week 1 Poll	Points
1	Whittier College	1	100
2	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges	2	94
3	Pomona-Pitzer Colleges	4	88
4	University of Redlands	3	87
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5	80
6	Chapman University	6 (T)	73
7	California Lutheran University	8	68
8	University of La Verne	9	62
9	Johns Hopkins University	6 (T)	58
10	Occidental College	10	44
RV	Connecticut College	NR	12
RV	Washington & Jefferson College	RV	11

2016 Men’s Varsity Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Top 5 (Week 2/September 14)
Rank	Team	Week 1Poll	Points
1	Bucknell University	1	100
2	George Washington University	2	93
3	United States Naval Academy	3	89
4	Johns Hopkins University	4	71
5	Fordham University	5	64
RV	Wagner College	NR	33

2016 Men’s Varsity Northeast Water Polo Conference Top 5 (Week 2/September 14)
Rank	Team	Week 1 Poll	Points
1	Princeton University	1	98
2	Harvard University	2	97
3	Brown University	3	90
4	St. Francis College Brooklyn	4	85
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5	64
RV	Iona College	RV	16