NCAA RPI Conference Rankings (PDF)
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The University of Michigan, Princeton University and Indiana University continue to rank among the nation’s Top 10 in women’s water polo per the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Women’s Water Polo Rating Percentage Index (RPI) numbers for games through April 16.
The Rating Percentage Index is the measuring stick by which the NCAA Women’s Water Polo Committee compares, rates and slots the teams for the National Championship at the conclusion of the season for the play-in and final championship site games. For cost purposes, the NCAA Championship Committee retains the right to place teams into play-in games irregardless of the RPI numbers when appropriate.
Each team’s RPI number is based on a number of factors to come up with an adjusted number to rank the teams:
- Record versus non-Division I opponents
- Record versus Division I opponents
- Division I winning percentage
- Strength of schedule
- Opponents’ strength of Schedule
- Road success
- Road RPI
- Normal RPI
The University of California-Los Angeles tops the latest RPI numbers of the season with fellow Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) institutions the University of Southern California, Stanford University and Arizona State University following at No. 2-to-4, respectively. The University of California-Irvine of the Big West Conference, Michigan, the University of California of the MPSF, Princeton, the University of Hawaii of the Big West and Indiana round out the Top 10.
2017 NCAA Women’s Water Polo RPI Ranking (through games of April 23)
1. University of California-Los Angeles
2. University of Southern California
3. Stanford University
4. Arizona State University
5. University of California-Irvine
6. University of Michigan
7. University of California
8. Princeton University
9. University of Hawaii
10. Indiana University
11. University of the Pacific
12. Long Beach State University
13. San Diego State University
14. University of California-Santa Barbara
15. Hartwick College
16. San Jose State University
17. University of California-San Diego
18. Wagner College
19. Harvard University
20. University of California-Davis
21. Loyola Marymount University
22. Marist College
23. CSU Bakersfield
24. Brown University
25. California State University, Northridge
26. Virginia Military Academy
27. Bucknell University
28. Macalester College
29. California Baptist University
30. Carthage College
31. Washington & Jefferson College
32. George Washington University
33. Iona College
34. Whittier College
35. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
36. University of La Verne
37. Azusa Pacific University
38. Santa Clara University
39. California State University-East Bay
40. Villanova University
41. Saint Francis University
42. Sonoma State University
43. California Lutheran University
44. Gannon University
45. Monmouth College
46. Connecticut College
47. Fresno Pacific University
48. California State University-Monterey Bay
49. Mercyhurst University
50. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges
51. Chapman University
52. Siena College
53. St. Francis College Brooklyn
54. University of Redlands
55. Occidental College
56. La Salle University
57. Grove City College
58. Penn State Behrend
59. Utica College
60. California Institute of Technology
