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.
UCLA, Whitter, Bucknell and Princeton are on top of their respective tables.
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)
