2018 NC Women’s Water Polo Championship – Selections Revealed

May 2, 2018

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The news about the 2018 NC women’s water polo comes from Indianapolis. The NCAA writes that the Women’s Water Polo Committee has announced the 10 teams that will be competing for the 2018 National Collegiate Women’s Water Polo Championship. Six teams have been placed in the bracket – the remaining four teams will compete for the last two berths in the bracket via two opening-round games.

On May 8 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center, the opening rounds will be played. The winners will advance to the championship, which will be held May 11th to 13th at the same venue. It will be an eight-team, single-elimination tournament with seven games.

The Rounds

In the opening round games, UC San Diego (24-11) will play Wagner (24-6). The winner will be placed in the championship bracket to play Southern California (23-1) in Game 1. In the other opening round game, UC Irvine (14-13) will play Pomona-Pitzer (21-10), with the winner advancing to the championship bracket to play Stanford (18-3) in Game 3.

Rounding out the bracket will be UCLA (22-7) facing Pacific (18-7) in Game 2 and California (19-5) competing against Michigan (32-8) in Game 4. Please reference the championship bracket for all game times.

School	Qualifier
No. 1 Southern California	MPSF automatic bid
No. 2 Stanford	At-large qualifier
No. 3 California	At-large qualifier
No. 4 UCLA	At-large qualifier
UC Irvine	Big West automatic bid
UC San Diego	WWPA automatic bid
Wagner	MAAC automatic bid
Pacific	Golden Coast Conference automatic bid
Pomona-Pitzer	SCIAC automatic bid
Michigan	CWPA automatic bid

Automatic qualifiers were awarded to the Big West Conference (UC Irvine), Collegiate Water Polo Association (Michigan), Golden Coast Conference (Pacific), Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (Wagner), Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (Southern California), Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Pomona-Pitzer) and the Western Water Polo Association (UC San Diego). The remaining three teams were selected at-large without geographical restrictions.