UCLA Earns No. 2 Seed for 2025 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship
April 28, 2025 | Women's Water Polo
INDIANAPOLISย --ย No. 1 UCLAย has been awarded the No. 2 seedย for the 2025 National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship as announced by the NCAA Women's Water Polo Committee on Monday evening.
Theย nine teams that will be vying for the 2025 National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship include seven teams that wereย placed in the bracket and the remaining two teams will compete for the last berthย in the bracket via an opening-round game on May 7.
The opening-round game will be contested May 7 and it features Wagner (21-8) vs. McKendree (21-7). The winner of that game will be placed in the bracket to face No. 1 Stanford (22-1) in the first round on Friday, May 9, at 9:00 a.m. PT. All rounds of the 2025 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship will be played at IU Natatoriumย in Indianapolis, Ind., and will be hosted by Indiana University and Indy Sports Corp. The 2025ย championship will be an eight-team, single-elimination tournament.
Rounding out the bracket will be No. 4 Hawai'i (21-4) facing California (19-5) in Game 2, with No. 2 UCLA (19-5) competing against LMU (20-11) on Friday, May 9 at 1:00 p.m. PT in Game 3. Game 4 will pitย No. 3 USC (27-4) against Harvard (26-6) at 3:00 p.m. PT.ย Please reference the bracket for all game times (which are listed in ET on the PDF).
Conferences receiving automatic qualification include the Big West Conference, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Western Water Polo Association. The remaining three teams were selected at-large without geographical restrictions (UCLA, USC, and California).
The first round and semifinal games will be streamed onย ncaa.com. The national championship will take place at 9:00 a.m. PDT/12:00 p.m. EDT onย Sunday, May 11ย on ESPNU.
This is UCLA's 23rd appearance in the NCAA Championship and 29th overall Championship appearance. The Bruins have won 12 national titles, including going undefeated a year ago and winning their eighthย NCAA Championship. UCLA enters the 2025ย NCAA Championship with an all-time record of 45-14 (.763) in NCAA Tournament games. Last year the Bruins opened up the 2024 NCAA Championship with a 17-7 win over Wagner and then defeated Stanford, 10-8, in the semifinals before beating California on the road, 7-4.
INTERACTIVE BRACKET:ย The full schedule for the 2025 tournament