[Jamesy]

LSJU is in the tournament, as the 3 seed! Will play UC Davis in the first round. 

The tournament will be at Avery pool again. USC is the top seed and Ucla is the 2 seed. The other teams are San Jose St., Princeton, Fordham and Concordia-Irvine.

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/waterpolo-men/nc/2025

USC essentially gets a bye to the finals to face winner of UCLA-Stanford. We have lost every game to both USC and UCLA this year, though most recent matches have been closer.

There's close and there's CLOSE.  As BostonCard notes above, the last time we played UCLA we lost by 1 goal in triple overtime. Really could go either way (assuming we take care of business against Davis).

It's great that we made the tournament again.  There are only 2 at large bids for NCAAs and the 4 best teams in the country are almost always UCLA, USC, Stanford and Cal, who all play in the same conference. So there is almost always a deserving team that is left out. This year it was Cal, which has more NCAA Men's Water Polo championships (14) than any other program.

I'm just glad we made a big comeback vs Cal in the MPSF 3rd place game. Would have been embarrassing to host NCAAs and not be in it.

[Jamesy]

LSJU is in the tournament, as the 3 seed! Will play UC Davis in the first round. 

The tournament will be at Avery pool again. USC is the top seed and Ucla is the 2 seed. The other teams are San Jose St., Princeton, Fordham and Concordia-Irvine.

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/waterpolo-men/nc/2025

USC essentially gets a bye to the finals to face winner of UCLA-Stanford. We have lost every game to both USC and UCLA this year, though most recent matches have been closer.

There's close and there's CLOSE.  As BostonCard notes above, the last time we played UCLA we lost by 1 goal in triple overtime. Really could go either way (assuming we take care of business against Davis).

It's great that we made the tournament again.  There are only 2 at large bids for NCAAs and the 4 best teams in the country are almost always UCLA, USC, Stanford and Cal, who all play in the same conference. So there is almost always a deserving team that is left out. This year it was Cal, which has more NCAA Men's Water Polo championships (14) than any other program.

I'm just glad we made a big comeback vs Cal in the MPSF 3rd place game. Would have been embarrassing to host NCAAs and not be in it.