The NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 Men's Water Polo

Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...

 Championship has existed since the 1969 season.

No school from outside the state of California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 has ever surpassed third place. Hence, no non-California school has ever participated in the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship game.

California (Berkeley) leads all universities with 13, followed by Stanford with 10 and UCLA at 8.

2009 Championship

Semifinals scores (Princeton University, December 5, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm (ET)):

• #1 USC
  University of Southern California
  The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
  
   13 vs. #4 Princeton
  Princeton University
  Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
  
   3; #2 UCLA 9 vs. #3 Loyola Marymount 8 (2 OT)

National Championship (Princeton University, December 6, 2:00 pm (ET)):

• #1 USC
  University of Southern California
  The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
  
   (25-2) vs. #2 UCLA (23-6)

2009 NCAA All-Tournament Teams:

• First-Team – Shea Buckner, USC; Scott Davidson, UCLA; Ben Hohl, UCLA; Tibor Forai, LMU; J.W. Krumpholz, USC; Andy Stevens, LMU; Jordan Thompson, USC (MVP)
• Second-Team – Edgaras Asajavicius, LMU; Matt Hale, Princeton; Cullen Hennessy, UCLA; Chay Lapin, UCLA; Matt Sagehorn, USC; Josh Samuels, UCLA; Eric Vreeland, Princeton; Griffin White, UCLA; Mark Zalewski, Princeton

On January 12, 2010, the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Committee has reprimanded the University of Southern California men’s water polo team for inappropriate behavior following the championship event at the 2009 NCAA Water Polo Championship.

2010 Championship

Semifinals (December 4, 2010, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

, Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

)

• So. California def. St. Francis (NY) 10-7
• California def. Loyola Marymount 7-6

Championship (December 5, 2010, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California, Berkeley, California)

• So. California def. California 12-10 (OT)

2010 NCAA All-Tournament Teams:

• First-Team – Peter Kurzeka, USC (MVP); Ivan Rackov, CAL; Zachary White, CAL; Tibor Forai, LMU; Nikola Vavic, USC; Andy Stevens, LMU; Brian Dudley, CAL
• Second-Team – Boris Plavsic, St. Francis (NY); Ikaika Aki, LMU; Marko Gencic, St. Francis (NY); Jeremy Davie, USC; Joel Dennerley, USC; Matt Burton, USC; Cory Nasoff, CAL

2011 Championship

Conferences receiving automatic qualification included the Collegiate Water Polo Association, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Western Water Polo Association. The remaining team was selected at-large without geographical restrictions.

Semifinals (December 3, 2011, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

, Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

)

• Southern California (22-3) vs. Princeton (21-9), 4:00 p.m. ET
• UCLA (23-4) vs. UC-San Diego (17-9), 6:00 p.m. ET

Championship (December 4, 2010, Spieker Aquatics Complex, University of California, Berkeley, California)

• Third-place game, 4 p.m. ET
• Championship game at 6 p.m. ET.

2011 NCAA All-Tournament Teams:

• TBD

Champions

Year	National Champion	Score	Runner-Up	Host or site
1969	UCLA	5-2	California University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...	Long Beach, Calif.
1970	UC Irvine University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...	7-6†††	UCLA	Long Beach, Calif.
1971	UCLA	5-3	San Jose State San José State University San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...	Long Beach, Calif.
1972	UCLA	10-5	UC Irvine	New Mexico
1973	California	8-4	UC Irvine	Long Beach, Calif.
1974	California	7-6	UC Irvine	Long Beach, Calif.
1975	California	9-8	UC Irvine	Long Beach, Calif.
1976	Stanford	13-12	UCLA	Long Beach, Calif.
1977	California	8-6	UC Irvine	Brown
1978	Stanford	7-6†††	California	Long Beach, Calif.
1979	UC Santa Barbara	11-3	UCLA	Long Beach, Calif.
1980	Stanford	8-6	California	Long Beach, Calif.
1981	Stanford	17-6	Long Beach State	Long Beach, Calif.
1982	UC Irvine	7-4	Stanford	Long Beach, Calif.
1983	California	10-7	Southern California University of Southern California The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...	Long Beach, Calif.
1984	California	9-8	Stanford	Long Beach, Calif.
1985	Stanford	12-11††	UC Irvine	Long Beach, Calif.
1986	Stanford	9-6	California	Long Beach, Calif.
1987	California	9-8†	UC Irvine	Long Beach, Calif.
1988	California	14-11	UCLA	Long Beach, Calif.
1989	UC Irvine	9-8	California	Indianapolis
1990	California	8-7	Stanford	Long Beach, Calif.
1991	California	7-6	UCLA	Long Beach, Calif.
1992	California	12-11†††	Stanford	Long Beach, Calif.
1993	Stanford	11-9	Southern California	Long Beach, Calif.
1994	Stanford	14-10	Southern California	Long Beach, Calif.
1995	UCLA	10-8	California	Stanford
1996	UCLA	8-7	Southern California	UC San Diego
1997	Pepperdine	8-7††	Southern California	Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
1998	Southern California	9-8††	Stanford	Newport Beach, Calif.
1999	UCLA	6-5	Stanford	La Jolla, Calif.
2000	UCLA	11-2	UC San Diego	Malibu, Calif.
2001	Stanford	8-5	UCLA	Stanford
2002	Stanford	7-6	California	Loyola Marymount
2003	Southern California	9-7††	Stanford	Stanford
2004	UCLA	10-9†	Stanford	Stanford
2005	Southern California	3-2	Stanford	Bucknell
2006	California	7-6	Southern California	Loyola Marymount
2007	California	8-6	Southern California	Stanford
2008	Southern California	7-5	Stanford	Stanford
2009	Southern California	7-6	UCLA	Princeton University
2010	Southern California	12-10†	California	California
2011				Berkeley, California
2012				Southern California

† Denotes overtime, multiple †'s denotes multiple overtimes

External links

• NCAA Men's Water Polo
• Pre-NCAA Water Polo Champion