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Stanford Men’s Water Polo - BobK - 09-02-2021

Starts Saturday
Stanford is ranked 4 in the nation, although they have their top scorers back
Last season Stanford won the league meet and lost by one in the NCAA semifinals

RE: Stanford Men’s Water Polo - martyup - 09-02-2021

(09-02-2021, 07:17 AM)BobK Wrote:  Starts Saturday
Stanford is ranked 4 in the nation, although they have their top scorers back
Last season Stanford won the league meet and lost by one in the NCAA semifinals

Stanford being ranked #4 in NCAA MWP is like being ranked last.  AFAIK, the only teams that are ever in contention are USC, UCLA, cal, and Stanford.  Maybe Pepperdine and UOP?

RE: Stanford Men’s Water Polo - BobK - 09-02-2021

1 University of California-Los Angeles
1 98
2
University of Southern California
2 95
3 University of California
3 (T) 90
4 Stanford University 3 (T) 88

RE: Stanford Men’s Water Polo - M T - 09-02-2021

(09-02-2021, 07:17 AM)BobK Wrote:  Starts Saturday
Stanford is ranked 4 in the nation, although they have their top scorers back
Last season Stanford won the league meet and lost by one in the NCAA semifinals

After the two games on Saturday in Stockton, the
first home game is next Wednesday (9/6) at 6PM vs Santa Clara.
Outdoors, usually plenty of room to spread out.  At 6PM, both of the stands will be habitable.

Then immediately to Princeton for 6 games in 3 days.

The first time to play someone in the usual top 4 will be Sep. 24-26 at the MPSF Invite at Cal.
Then UCLA there Oct 9 and USC here Oct 23,  then Cal there Nov 6.

MPSF tourney will be at Stanford Nov 19-21.


Stanford could save paper by recycling last year's lineups.  Only one player didn't come back (but that was the goalie).
That seems like a motivated, experienced team.  In addition, there are 5 freshman (one of which is a goalie).

But I'm worried that the same thing happened at USC, UCLA, and Cal.  And they may have had National Team members come back.


For all these fall sports, a critical thing will be to avoid being quarantined (which of course means that everyone on the team stay healthy).

RE: Stanford Men’s Water Polo - M T - 09-05-2021

Stanford easily beat #12 San Jose State 16-7, but the game against #7 Pacific was different.
Stanford had to make a 2 goal deficit in the last 2.5 minutes to send it into overtime,
and Stanford went on the a 15-12 OT win.

7 Stanford players scored in the first match; 6 in the second.

Obviously, the showed some grit to come from behind, but I would normally have expected Stanford to do better -- either that or Pacific is underrated.

RE: Stanford Men’s Water Polo - M T - 10-09-2021

A 13-2 record might sound good for other sports, but it is marginal for Stanford MWP.

With losses to #1 UCLA (6-10) and #2 USC (13-15) (both at Cal a couple of weeks back), and narrow wins over #5 (UCSB 10-9 and 12-10), #6 (Long Beach State, 15-14OT), #7 (Pacific, 12-10OT) and #10 (Pepperdine 11-9), Stanford appears to have a weaker than normal team.

You can watch Stanford at UCLA this afternoon at 1PM.  A win today will very much help their positioning for the conference tournament seeding, to hope to get to the NCAA tournament.

RE: Stanford Men’s Water Polo - M T - 10-09-2021

Stanford led 3-1 after 1, 5-4 after 2, 6-5 after 3 quarters.  UCLA tied it up in the last half of the 4th quarter, and went ahead 7-6 on the only penalty shot of the game with 1:22 left.   Stanford replaced their goalie with a field player, but failed to score.  UCLA hit the empty goal with 6 seconds left, making the final score 8-6.

Both teams were 2 of 10 on power plays.

This was a much closer match than the previous match against UCLA.