INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The field is set for the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Collegiate Water Polo Championship as Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) Champion Fordham University, Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) Champion Princeton University, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Champion the University of Southern California, Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) the University of California-Davis, Golden Coast Conference Champion University of the Pacific and At-Large selections the University of California and the University of California-Los Angeles will battle on Saturday, November 26, Thursday, December 1, and Saturday-Sunday, December 3-4.
Action starts on Saturday, November 26, at Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J., as the No. 8-ranked Tigers (26-5) take on No. 18 Fordham (26-7) in a clash of the East Coast Conferences at Noon Eastern.
The victor of the Princeton-Fordham game advances to an 8:00 p.m. Eastern/5:00 p.m. Pacific game on Thursday, December 1, at 8:00 p.m. against MPSF Champion USC (18-6), while Pacific (21-6) tangles with UC-Davis (19-7) at 6:00 p.m. Eastern/3:00 p.m. Pacific. Both games will occur at NCAA Championship host California’s Spieker Aquatics Complex in Berkeley, Calif.
The semifinals and championship game will also be played at the Spieker Aquatics Complex as UCLA (22-4) takes on the victor of the USC/Fordham/Princeton game at 7:00 p.m. Eastern/4:00 p.m. Pacific and host California (21-2) meets the UC-Davis/Pacific victor at 5:00 p.m Eastern/2:00 p.m. Pacific on Saturday, December 3.
The National Championship game will take place at 6:00 p.m. Eastern/3:00 p.m. Pacific at Spieker on Sunday December 4.
The semifinals will be streamed live on NCAA.com with the national championship game live on ESPNU.
Conferences receiving automatic qualification included the Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Northeast Water Polo Conference and the Western Water Polo Association. The remaining two teams were selected at-large without geographical restrictions.
