PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University men’s water polo will host the 2019 Bruno Classic, compete in five other tournaments, and play 10 Northeast Water Polo Conference games as part of its 2019 fall schedule,
Highlights from the Bears’ 2019 schedule include six games at the eighth annual Bruno Classic in the team’s opening weekend in addition to tournaments at Princeton University, the United States Air Force Academy, Harvard University and Santa Clara University. Brown’s season culminates at the Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) Championship hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass.
Brown will play in 10 NWPC games during the regular season, squaring off in home-and-homes with Harvard, defending league champion Princeton, St. Francis College Brooklyn, Iona College and MIT.
The Bears commence their season with the Bruno Classic, facing Wagner College, McKendree University, California Lutheran University and Connecticut College on September 7 before meeting Bucknell University and California Baptist University on September 8.
The team travels to the Princeton Invitational for its first games away from home, playing Wagner and the United States Naval Academy on September 14 prior to squaring off with 2019 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) Champion George Washington University and Bucknell University on September 15. Brown makes its first trip outside the Northeast for the Air Force Invitational from September 21-22.
Returning to the East Coast, the Bears take part in back-to-back NWPC league weekends. Brown plays at Iona and St. Francis Brooklyn on October 5 before visiting Princeton on October 6 during its first league weekend. The team hosts Harvard and MIT on October 12 in the program’s first home conference games of the year.
Brown returns to tournament play with the Harvard Invitational, meeting Wagner (October 18), Pomona-Pitzer Colleges (October 19), La Salle University (October 19), and George Washington (October 20). The Bears play in their final tournament of the regular season at the Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament at Santa Clara from October 25-27.
In the final two weekends of the regular season, the team takes part in the second half of its conference schedule. The Bears host Princeton (November 2), St. Francis Brooklyn (November 3), and Iona (November 3) prior to closing the season with a pair of road contests in Cambridge at MIT and Harvard on November 9.
Brown will compete at the 2019 NWPC Championship from November 22-24 at MIT, with the winner of the tournament claiming the league’s automatic berth into the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship field.
Information courtesy Brown University Athletics Communications
