UCI has a loaded September playing UCLA, Stanford, and CAL at home. Then at USC day after UCLA. For those close enough, carpe diem.
Reunited with CCU mates?
Temkin, Watson, Chase McFarland, Indart.
Also, when you combine Dash, Jensen, Forer, is this not a record for most players from a single club on a college roster?
I’d be shocked if Temkin isn’t the starter come November. Gotta feel for Price though… Temkin takes his spot on the U.S. U20 team last year and proceeds to transfer to Stanford and likely take his spot there too…
USC’s roster just came out and has 3 5th year players - Kranz, McGuire, and Miller. That’s huge for them.
So basically they lost Di Martire from last year’s team, but added Brankovic, Lopez Duart, and Martin
Miller was huge for them last season, expecting another dominant season of him in center
A true competitor wants to go up against the best, that’s how you get better. Let’s see who wants the starting job and is willing to put in the work.
May the best man win!
looks like UCSB has put their roster up. it is hidden, have to search specifically for it, or IT needs to fix the link link in the drop down.
Still waiting on UOP, Long Beach, LMU, CBU. The rest of the top 20 seem to be posted, some look partially complete. Seems like long beach loses a top international shooter every year.
Here is the Preseason poll that was released today.
| Rank | Team | Final 2023 Poll | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of California-Los Angeles | 2 | 98 |
| 2 | University of California | 1 | 97 |
| 3 | Stanford University | 4 | 88 |
| 4 | University of Southern California | 3 | 87 |
| 5 | Princeton University | 5 | 79 |
| 6 | University of California-Irvine | 6 | 71 |
| 7 | University of the Pacific | 18 (T) | 66 |
| 8 | University of California-Davis | 7 (T) | 65 |
| 9 | San Jose State University | 7 (T) | 56 |
| 10 | Long Beach State University | 11 | 54 |
| 11 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 7 (T) | 51 |
| 12 | University of California-San Diego | 14 (T) | 47 |
| 13 | Pepperdine University | 7 (T) | 40 |
| 14 | Fordham University | 12 (T) | 39 |
| 15 | Harvard University | 12 (T) | 33 |
| 16 | Loyola Marymount University | 14 (T) | 27 |
| 17 | California Baptist University | 16 | 18 |
| 18 | United States Naval Academy | 17 | 15 |
| 19 | Santa Clara University | 18 (T) | 12 |
| 20 | Brown University | 20 | 7 |
| RV | United States Air Force Academy | RV | 3 |
| RV | Wagner College | NR | 1 |
| RV | Bucknell University | NR | 1 |
| RV | Pomona-Pitzer Colleges | NR | 1 |
I find it interesting that UOP isn’t playing a single Big 4 school or any tournaments this year. In their press release Graham makes it sound like they all colluded to not schedule UOP. Not sure why you would say that in a school press release. He’s a strange person.
That is very odd. Do the big 4 schools choose who plays in the MPSF tournament? I can’t see any reason why they would all decide to not play UOP.
I heard that Graham has declined to play a UC school ( not a Big 4 school) this season saying that he wants to go undefeated this year. 
If you read the press release on their site he specifically says the big 4 got together and decided not to play UOP this year and they always do. I think they skipped the MPSF tournament last year but they always play the big 4 in regular season matchups.
Well he has Princeton twice and UC Irvine so skipping Davis seems strange. Don’t you want competition to improve towards the end of the season. I am going to laugh if San Jose, Pepperdine or LMU beat them during the WCC champs. That is like a D1 high school water polo team only playing d3 and under on purpose… lets see how it works out for him, the man of numbers, and masks.
not playing Davis makes no sense at all
It absolutely makes no sense…
Pepperdine has what it takes to beat Pacific. Pepperdine plays the best five teams in college water polo throughout the season (Big 4 + Princeton). Also, they play at Pacific to end their regular season. They may lose in a close one and beat them the following weekend in the WCC tournament.
I am not familiar with the scoring system that decides the at large bid for NCAA’s. Anyone have a link or details?
Minus the interesting collusion claim from MPSF, things could get interesting if UOP runs the table and then loses in their conference championships perhaps.
I expect some great things from Pacific this year and have them in my Top 5. Too bad that they are not playing any of the “Big 4” in the regular season this year, because I bet there would have been some some great games.
James Graham loves to tote his math background and definitley has a different way of looking at water polo in kind of a “Moneyball” sort of way. His interviews are always interesting and enteraining and I really enjoy listening to them.
Not sure if I agree with him on Pacifi being “Water Polo U” or being “the greatest college water polo experience in the country and I think people recognize that.” I get that coaches have to sell their program, but I wonder if he truly believes all that he says. It would be interesting for him to address the lack of top domestic recruits on his current roster
It is going to be really interesting to see how it all plays out for them this year.
Interview seems misleading.
Pacific refused to play the MPSF invite tournament and in return, the Big 4 teams refused to play them in the regular season… Also, Graham mentions in the interview that they play Harvard, who “recently beat Cal”. That win was 6 years ago and Harvard is now closer to Brown than it is to Princeton.
I was not aware that Pacific refused to play in the MPSF Invite. It seems a bit disingenuous for him not to acknowledge that in the video. He makes it sound like none of the Big 4 would play his team at any time or any place.