2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship

2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship
Dates	May 10, 13-15
Teams	10
Champions	USC Trojans
Runners-up	Stanford Cardinal
Third place	UCLA Bruins
Fourth place	Michigan Wolverines
Matches played	14
Best player	Stephania Haralabidis
	← 2015 2017 →

The 2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was the 16th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the UCLA Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles, California from May 13–15, 2016. The USC Trojans defeated the 2015 champions, the Stanford Cardinal, 8-7 to win their fifth national title, while finishing the season 26-0.[1]

Qualification

Since there is only one NCAA championship for women's water polo, all women's water polo programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, are eligible. For the first time, ten teams participated in the tournament. The automatic qualifiers came from the following conferences: Big West Conference, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and Western Water Polo Association. Three additional teams were selected at large without geographical restrictions by the selection committee. The four lowest seeded teams played in the two play-in games on Tuesday, May 10.

Play-in games

Site: RIMAC (UC San Diego), San Diego, California

	Play-in game


	Whittier College		7

	UC San Diego		11

	Play-in game


	San Diego State		7

	Wagner College		4

Tournament bracket

Site: Spieker Aquatics Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, California

Fifth place			Consolation semifinals				First round				Championship semifinals				Championship

								UC San Diego	4
								UCLA	17
				UC San Diego	10							UCLA	4
				UC Santa Barbara	5							Stanford	7
								UC Santa Barbara	5
								Stanford	12
	UC San Diego	2														Stanford	7
	Arizona State	8														USC	8
								San Diego State	3
								USC	12
				San Diego State	5							USC	9
Seventh place					Arizona State	7							Michigan	6			Third place
	UC Santa Barbara	8						Arizona State	4							UCLA	5
	San Diego State	2							Michigan	5								Michigan	4

All Tournament Team

TBD

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Notes

Game time each day: Noon, 1:45 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m. (local time)

References

"2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship schedule". Ncaa.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.

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[1] "2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship schedule". Ncaa.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.