2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship
The 2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was the 16th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the UCLA Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles, California from May 13–15, 2016. The USC Trojans defeated the 2015 champions, the Stanford Cardinal, 8-7 to win their fifth national title, while finishing the season 26-0.[1]
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| Dates | May 10, 13-15 |
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| Teams | 10 |
| Champions | USC Trojans |
| Runners-up | Stanford Cardinal |
| Third place | UCLA Bruins |
| Fourth place | Michigan Wolverines |
| Matches played | 14 |
| Best player | Stephania Haralabidis |
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Qualification
Since there is only one NCAA championship for women's water polo, all women's water polo programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, are eligible. For the first time, ten teams participated in the tournament. The automatic qualifiers came from the following conferences: Big West Conference, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and Western Water Polo Association. Three additional teams were selected at large without geographical restrictions by the selection committee. The four lowest seeded teams played in the two play-in games on Tuesday, May 10.
Play-in games
- Site: RIMAC (UC San Diego), San Diego, California
| Play-in game | ||||
| Whittier College | 7 | |||
| UC San Diego | 11 | |||
| Play-in game | ||||
| San Diego State | 7 | |||
| Wagner College | 4 | |||
Tournament bracket
- Site: Spieker Aquatics Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, California
| Fifth place | Consolation semifinals | First round | Championship semifinals | Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
| UC San Diego | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| UCLA | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC San Diego | 10 | UCLA | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Santa Barbara | 5 | Stanford | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Santa Barbara | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC San Diego | 2 | Stanford | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State | 8 | USC | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| USC | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 5 | USC | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Seventh place | Arizona State | 7 | Michigan | 6 | Third place | ||||||||||||||||||
| UC Santa Barbara | 8 | Arizona State | 4 | UCLA | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 2 | Michigan | 5 | Michigan | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
All Tournament Team
TBD
See also
Notes
- Game time each day: Noon, 1:45 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m. (local time)
References
- "2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship schedule". Ncaa.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.