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