BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released the men’s water polo Rating Percentage Index (RPI), a ranking system that uses a team’s winning percentage, its opponents’ winning percentage and its foes opponents’ winning percentage to rank teams based on their strength of schedule, for games through Monday, November 3.
The RPI is a metric for NCAA tournament selection committees to evaluate which teams deserve an at-large bid and how they should be seeded.
| RPI Rank | School | Record | Conference | Road | Neutral | Home |
| 1 | UCLA | 20-1 | MPSF | 4-0 | 6-0 | 10-1 |
| 2 | Southern California | 17-2 | MPSF | 7-1 | 5-1 | 5-0 |
| 3 | Stanford | 12-6 | MPSF | 4-3 | 4-1 | 4-2 |
| 4 | California | 14-5 | MPSF | 2-4 | 6-0 | 6-1 |
| 5 | Fordham | 18-3 | MAWPC | 8-1 | 5-2 | 5-0 |
| 6 | San Jose St. | 10-6 | West Coast | 2-2 | 4-1 | 4-3 |
| 7 | UC San Diego | 18-8 | Big West | 4-1 | 10-1 | 4-6 |
| 8 | Pepperdine | 14-10 | West Coast | 2-5 | 6-3 | 6-2 |
| 9 | Long Beach St. | 14-8 | Big West | 5-2 | 7-3 | 2-3 |
| 10 | LMU (CA) | 12-9 | West Coast | 2-3 | 6-3 | 4-3 |
| 11 | Princeton | 18-9 | NWPC | 5-5 | 4-2 | 9-2 |
| 12 | UC Irvine | 14-10 | Big West | 4-3 | 6-3 | 4-4 |
| 13 | Pacific | 15-5 | West Coast | 3-2 | 10-1 | 2-2 |
| 14 | UC Davis | 11-11 | Big West | 4-4 | 5-3 | 2-4 |
| 15 | Harvard | 17-8 | NWPC | 6-4 | 3-3 | 8-1 |
| 16 | California Baptist | 21-9 | West Coast | 1-2 | 14-4 | 6-3 |
| 17 | UC Santa Barbara | 16-12 | Big West | 4-3 | 10-8 | 2-1 |
| 18 | Claremont-M-S | 17-5 | SCIAC | 3-2 | 1-2 | 13-1 |
| 19 | Brown | 16-7 | NWPC | 4-4 | 2-2 | 10-1 |
| 20 | Navy | 19-8 | MAWPC | 1-1 | 6-4 | 12-3 |
| 21 | Santa Clara | 8-11 | West Coast | 1-3 | 5-3 | 2-5 |
| 22 | Air Force | 16-13 | West Coast | 1-7 | 6-3 | 9-3 |
| 23 | George Washington | 14-14 | MAWPC | 4-5 | 6-8 | 4-1 |
| 24 | CUI | 16-11 | WWPA | 2-5 | 11-5 | 3-1 |
| 25 | Cal St. Fullerton | 16-13 | Big West | 0-4 | 10-4 | 6-5 |
| 26 | Pomona-Pitzer | 15-12 | SCIAC | 4-1 | 4-11 | 7-0 |
| 27 | Bucknell | 9-14 | MAWPC | 2-5 | 2-7 | 5-2 |
| 28 | Johns Hopkins | 14-5 | MPSF | 2-2 | 11-2 | 1-1 |
| 29 | McKendree | 10-11 | WWPA | 2-6 | 6-4 | 2-1 |
| 30 | Whittier | 9-9 | SCIAC | 3-4 | 4-2 | 2-3 |
| 31 | Redlands | 9-16 | SCIAC | 4-3 | 0-8 | 5-5 |
| 32 | Wagner | 9-14 | MAWPC | 2-10 | 6-4 | 1-0 |
| 33 | Salem (WV) | 14-13 | WWPA | 2-5 | 9-7 | 3-1 |
| 34 | Gannon | 12-9 | WWPA | 4-2 | 5-7 | 3-0 |
| 35 | Iona | 8-13 | NWPC | 2-6 | 1-4 | 5-3 |
| 36 | Cal Lutheran | 11-10 | SCIAC | 1-4 | 6-3 | 4-3 |
| 37 | Augustana (IL) | 10-6 | MPSF | 3-2 | 6-4 | 1-0 |
| 38 | Mount St. Mary’s | 10-19 | MAWPC | 0-9 | 7-8 | 3-2 |
| 39 | Occidental | 8-16 | SCIAC | 1-5 | 1-9 | 6-2 |
| 40 | Biola | 5-18 | WWPA | 2-8 | 2-9 | 1-1 |
| 41 | Chapman | 8-16 | SCIAC | 0-5 | 4-8 | 4-3 |
| 42 | MIT | 5-17 | NWPC | 1-5 | 4-10 | 0-2 |
| 43 | Austin | 3-7 | MPSF | 1-1 | 2-6 | 0-0 |
| 44 | La Verne | 3-14 | SCIAC | 1-4 | 1-6 | 1-4 |
| 45 | Fresno Pacific | 3-15 | WWPA | 1-5 | 2-8 | 0-2 |
| 46 | Long Island | 3-20 | NWPC | 0-4 | 3-11 | 0-5 |
| 47 | UC Merced | 3-16 | WWPA | 0-3 | 3-9 | 0-4 |
| 48 | Mercyhurst | 2-17 | MAWPC | 1-7 | 1-4 | 0-6 |
| 49 | Penn St.-Behrend | 5-16 | MPSF | 0-3 | 3-6 | 2-7 |
| 50 | Connecticut Col. | 2-10 | MPSF | 0-4 | 2-6 | 0-0 |
| 51 | Wash. & Jeff. | 1-14 | MPSF | 0-3 | 0-8 | 1-3 |
| 52 | Caltech | 1-13 | SCIAC | 0-5 | 1-4 | 0-4 |
| 53 | Wheaton (MA) | 1-12 | MPSF | 0-2 | 1-10 | 0-0 |
