I don’t know why my post was flagged, maybe because I copied and pasted a link from another channel? The post was just to help spread the word about the Water Polo Wednesday podcast and encourage fans on this channel to subscribe if they aren’t already subscribers and watch it. Wes and Clay have a good pulse on water polo and are fun to listen to! If you need the link to the podcast, see the Water Polo Wednesday channel.
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Agree that Wes and Clay deserve as much marketing and promotion as they can get
If nothing else, they are trying to highlight the sport at its best and grow it both within and beyond the community
Grateful for what they do
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I am guessing due to it being duplicative, but could be wrong. Maybe the WPW thread should be in the general category since it covers so much, and well done IMO. I think we all see every category on here anyway.
Outside of the top 3, it presently looks like who finishes #4 is up for grabs between Cal/Hawaii/ASU. And there sure is A LOT of parity between the teams ranked #7 to #22!
I think that Cal has the clear advantage over Hawaii and ASU for the #4 ranking at this point.
They are 2-0 against Hawaii with the scores being 14-9 and16-8. Hawaii will get another shot at them next week, but I am not sure if an upset win will push them past Cal. IMHO, Hawaii will need to win the Big West to make the NCAAs.
As noted earlier, ASU lost to Cal 11-10 in their own pool. I think that they will need to meet up with Cal and defeat them in the MPSF tournament if they have a chance at the final at-large bid.
There is still a lot of water polo left in the season so a few upsets could create some chaos, but so far, none of the current top 6 teams have lost to a team ranked below them.
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Good point re: Cal. Also forgot they are hosting MPSF champs. They did look vulnerable @ UCD Feb 8th (13-12 win down to the wire). Eszter Varro didn’t play, but UCD didn’t have Bridget Miller either.
Does anyone have the full schedule for the sdsu tourney next weekend? I believe they play at ucsd as well? Appreciate it. Hard to find it all on Google.
Stanford 10, UCLA 9. Flynn and Dhalluin scored 7 of Stanford’s 10 goals. Pearson drew 7 exclusions for UCLA.
ASU 16, UCI 9
LMU 10, Princeton 8
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Cal 22 SJSU 10
The game was not that close, freshman goalie Nelson subbed in Q4
UCLA game was a barnburner. 6 of 9 goals were scored by Newport Harbor alumni.
I didn’t see the penalty miss at the end of the game…goalie save or missed opportunity?
First penalty miss attempted to go over Carpenter’s shoulder and bar out. Second penalty miss was blocked. Both teams were poor on 6v5. Stanford especially so and really could have pulled away if they converted even a third of their chances. Will be exciting to watch them play a few more times this year. Only a few shooters on each team seem confident against these top notch goalies.
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UOP takes down UCDAVIS by 1….man!!
Bad loss for them…but great for UOP to bump them up the rankings
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…and now make that twice nice wins in a row for UOP… 15-14 over SJSU in OT yesterday!
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Just saw that UofM HC resigned….Sami takes over as new HC.
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Not much change since last week, except for UOP two big wins this week against Davis and SJSU, to move them up the rankings
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#19 SDSU beats #14 Princeton 12-10.
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3/13
CSUN 12, UCSB 6. UCSB is now 1-16 on the season.
Hawaii 9, U.C. Davis 8
LBSU 19, UCSD 11
3/14
USC 21, ASU 17. Millie Quinn scored 8 goals for ASU.
Indiana 11, Princeton 10
LMU 13, Pacific 7
LBSU 12, Indiana 7
Harvard 12, UCSD 6
3/15
Harvard 13, SJSU 4
Harvard 14, San Diego State 9
UCSD 11, Indiana 10
UCLA 14, Fresno State 8
Cal 10, Hawaii 8
Does anyone know why Lauren Steele hasn’t played in UCLA’s last two games?
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Jeff - who are your darkhorse picks for the Big West, GCC and CWPA conference tourneys?
I do not remember seeing Lauren Steele at any of UCLA’s three games last week. I only saw Joey Niz suited up along with their third string goalie.
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Good question, sacareawaterpolofan.
Big West Conference. Hawaii is the favorite. I think LBSU is the only other school that could win the conference. LBSU has a solid group of starting field players and an impressive freshman goalie from Ukraine. They easily beat LMU in late January but, playing without their very good center defender, lost to U.C. Irvine and Fresno State in the Barbara Kalbus Invitational. LBSU has played two games against Hawaii, losing each time by two goals.
CWPA. Michigan and Harvard are the co-favorites. Princeton is my darkhorse candidate. Michigan beat Harvard by one goal in February and plays Princeton on Saturday. Michigan has had a much more difficult schedule than Harvard and Princeton and that experience will be an advantage in the CWPA tournament. Harvard has wins over Princeton, Indiana, and UCSD. Princeton has underachieved this year, losing to Indiana and San Diego State last week. With all due respect to Derek Ellingson, it didn’t help when Princeton decided after the 2024 season that Dusty Litvak would no longer serve as an assistant coach of the women’s team (at the same time, Princeton decided that Ellingson would no longer serve as an assistant coach of the men’s team). Litvak is a top-five college coach. The women’s team misses him.
Golden Coast Conference. LMU is the favorite. I think Fresno State is the second-best team in the conference. They have had an up-and-down season, beating Michigan, U.C. Irvine, LBSU, and U.C. Davis, but losing to Indiana, Marist, and LMU. On a good day, San Diego State is capable of beating schools ranked higher than they are, but I don’t see them beating both LMU and Fresno State in the conference tournament.
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