Participants in NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship Announced
4/27/2009 8:00:00 AM | Water Polo
April 27, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Women's Water Polo Committee announced the teams that will participate in the 2009 National Collegiate Championship on Monday.
The Championship will be held May 8-10 at the Eppley Recreation Center, in College Park, Md. The University of Maryland will serve as the host institution.
The 2009 National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship will be an eight-team, single-elimination tournament (12 games), with a losers' bracket to determine places three through eight.
The No. 1 seed was awarded to Southern California (24-1). Stanford (24-3) is the No. 2 seed.
The first-round games will take place on Friday, May 8.
The semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, May 9. The championship game will be played at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 10 and be telecast live on the CBS College Sports Network.
The following conferences and institutions received automatic qualification: Collegiate Water Polo Association, Michigan; Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Marist; Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Southern California; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Cal Lutheran; and Western Water Polo Association, Loyola Marymount. The following institutions received at-large bids to the championship field: Stanford, UCLA, and Hawaii.
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