USC Hosts MPSF Women's Water Polo Championship This Weekend
April 22, 2002 | Women's Water Polo
April 22, 2002
LOS ANGELES-The nation's top 7 teams-including No. 1-ranked UCLA and co-No. 2 USC and Stanford-are part of the 12-team field for the 2002 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Women's Water Polo Championship hosted by USC at the McDonald's Swim Stadium this Friday through Sunday (April 26-28).
Tickets, available at the gate or by calling (213) 740-GO SC, are $10 for a single day pass or $25 for a 3-day all-tournament pass. Students and senior citizens can buy a $5 single day pass or a $12 all-tournament pass.
Stanford is seeded first in the MPSF tourney (based on goal differential tiebreaker), USC is second, UCLA is third, No. 4-ranked California is seeded fourth, No. 7-ranked Long Beach State is fifth, co-No. 5-ranked San Jose State and San Diego State are sixth and seventh respectively, No. 11-ranked Hawaii is eighth, No. 12-ranked UC Santa Barbara is ninth, No. 18-ranked UC Irvine is 10th, No. 19-ranked Pacific is 11th and unranked Cal State Northridge is 12th.
The 8 first round games on April 26 begin at 8 a.m. (see schedule below).
Both the semifinals on April 27 and the finals on April 28 begin at 10 a.m., with 6 loser's bracket and winner's bracket games each day. The championship game is at 4:15 p.m. on April 28.
The winner of the MPSF tourney gets an automatic berth into the 4-team NCAA Championship May 11-12, also at USC. An NCAA at-large entrant also likely will emerge from the MPSF tourney.
MPSF Women's Water Polo Championship Tournament April 26-28 USC McDonald's Swim Stadium
Fri., Apr. 26 - First Round Gm 1 8:00 a.m. #8 Hawaii (13-12 overall, 5-6 MPSF) vs. #9 UC Santa Barbara (16-15, 4-7) Gm 2 9:15 a.m. #7 San Diego State (18-13, 5-6) vs. #10 UC Irvine (14-21, 2-9) Gm 3 10:30 a.m. #6 San Jose State (17-10, 5-6) vs. #11 Pacific (5-17, 1-10) Gm 4 11:45 a.m. #5 Long Beach State (17-11, 6-5) vs. #12 Cal State Northridge (5-20, 0-11) Gm 5 1:00 p.m. #1 Stanford (19-1, 10-1) vs. Winner Game 1 Gm 6 2:15 p.m. #2 USC (24-3, 10-1) vs. Winner Game 2 Gm 7 3:30 p.m. #3 UCLA (18-3, 10-1) vs. Winner Game 3 Gm 8 4:45 p.m. #4 California (16-7, 8-3) vs. Winner Game 4
Sat., Apr. 27 - Semifinals Gm 9 10:00 a.m. Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 4 Gm 10 11:15 a.m. Loser Game 2 vs Loser Game 3 Gm 11 12:30 p.m. Loser Game 8 vs Loser Game 5 Gm 12 1:45 p.m. Loser Game 7 vs Loser Game 6 Gm 13 3:00 p.m. Winner Game 5 vs Winner Game 8 Gm 14 4:15 p.m. Winner Game 6 vs Winner Game 7
Sun., Apr. 28 - Championship 11th Place Gm 15 10:00 a.m. Loser Game 10 vs Loser Game 9 9th Place Gm 16 11:15 a.m. Winner Game 10 vs Winner Game 9 7th Place Gm 17 12:30 p.m. Loser Game 12 vs Loser Game 11 5th Place Gm 18 1:45 p.m. Winner Game 12 vs Winner Game 11 3rd Place Gm 19 3:00 p.m. Loser Game 13 vs Loser Game 14 1st Place Gm 20 4:15 p.m. Winner Game 13 vs Winner Game 14
