2021 Men’s Varsity Top 20 (Preseason) |
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| Rank | Team | Final Winter 2021 Poll | Points |
| 1 | University of California-Los Angeles |
1 | 98 |
| 2 |
University of Southern California |
2 | 95 |
| 3 | University of California |
3 (T) | 90 |
| 4 | Stanford University | 3 (T) | 88 |
| 5 |
Pepperdine University |
5 | 72 |
| 6 | University of California-Santa Barbara |
NR | 71 |
| 7 |
University of the Pacific |
NR | 65 |
| 8 | Long Beach State University |
NR | 61 |
| 9 (T) |
University of California-San Diego | NR | 53 |
| 9 (T) |
University of California-Davis | NR | 53 |
| 11 |
Harvard University | NR | 46 |
| 12 |
San Jose State University | 8 (T) | 41 |
| 13 |
University of California-Irvine | NR | 39 |
| 14 (T) |
California Baptist University | 6 | 33 |
| 14 (T) |
Princeton University | NR | 33 |
| 16 |
Loyola Marymount University | 7 | 30 |
| 17 |
Bucknell University | 8 (T) | 23 |
| 18 |
Brown University | NR | 16 |
| 19 | United States Naval Academy |
8 (T) | 15 |
| 20 |
Fordham University | RV | 9 |
| RV | United States Air Force Academy |
8 (T) | 8 |
| RV |
Santa Clara University |
RV | 7 |
| RV | George Washington University |
RV | 5 |
| RV | Whittier College |
NR | 2 |
| RV | Pomona-Pitzer Colleges |
NR | 2 |
| RV | St. Francis College Brooklyn |
NR | 1 |
2021 Men’s Varsity Division III Top 10 (Preseason) |
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| Rank | Team | Final 2019 Poll | Points |
| 1 |
Whittier College |
1 | 99 |
| 2 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges |
2 | 95 |
| 3 |
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges |
3 | 89 |
| 4 | California Lutheran University | 5 | 81 |
| 5 | Chapman University |
7 (T) | 79 |
| 6 (T) |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4 | 74 |
| 6 (T) | Johns Hopkins University |
7 (T) |
74 |
| 8 | University of Redlands |
6 | 68 |
| 9 | University of La Verne |
9 | 58 |
| 10 | Occidental College |
10 | 35 |
| RV | Austin College | RV | 23 |
2021 Men’s Varsity Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Top 5 (Preseason) |
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| Rank | Team | Final Winter 2021 Poll | Points |
| 1 |
Bucknell University | 1 | 95 |
| 2 (T) |
United States Naval Academy | NR | 94 |
| 2 (T) |
Fordham University | NR | 94 |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins University |
NR | 82 |
| 5 | George Washington University |
3 (T) | 69 |
| RV | McKendree University | 3 (T) | 16 |
2021 Men’s Varsity Northeast Water Polo Conference Top 5 (Preseason) |
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| Rank | Team | Final 2019 Poll | Points |
| 1 (T) |
Harvard University | 1 | 97 |
| 1 (T) |
Princeton University | 2 | 97 |
| 3 | Brown University | 4 | 91 |
| 4 | St. Francis College Brooklyn | 3 | 67 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5 | 66 |
| RV | Iona College | NR | 32 |
