NCAA RPI Conference Rankings (PDF)
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The University of Michigan, Princeton University and Indiana University 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 March 12.
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 first RPI numbers of the season with fellow Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) institutions Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the University of California and Arizona State University following at No. 2-to-5, respectively. Michigan comes in at No. 6 with the University of California-Irvine of the Big West Conference, Princeton, the University of Hawaii of the Big West and Indiana rounding out the Top 10.
2017 NCAA Women’s Water Polo RPI Ranking (through games of March 12)
1. University of California-Los Angeles
2. Stanford University
3. University of Southern California
4. University of California
5. Arizona State University
6. University of Michigan
7. University of California-Irvine
8. Princeton University
9. University of Hawaii
10. Indiana University
11. University of California-Santa Barbara
12. University of the Pacific
13. San Diego State University
14. Virginia Military Institute
15. Long Beach State University
16. San Jose State University
17. George Washington University
18. Marist College
19. University of California-Davis
20. Wagner College
21. Harvard University
22. University of California-San Diego
23. Hartwick College
24. Villanova University
25. CSU Bakersfield
26. Brown University
27. California State University-Northridge
28. University of La Verne
29. Santa Clara University
30. Loyola Marymount University
31. Iona College
32. Bucknell University
33. California Baptist University
34. Macalester College
35. Azusa Pacific University
36. California State University-East Bay
37. Gannon University
38. Whittier College
39. Fresno Pacific University
40. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
41. Sonoma State University
42. California State University-Monterey Bay
43. Carthage College
44. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges
45. Saint Francis University (Pa.)
46. Mercyhurst University
47. St. Francis Brooklyn
48. Chapman University
49. California Lutheran University
50. Siena College
51. University of Redlands
52. Occidental College
53. Monmouth College
54. Washington & Jefferson College
55. La Salle University
56. Connecticut College
57. Grove City College
58. Penn State Behrend
59. California Institute of Technology
60. Utica College
