WPP Alternative Poll-2014 Men's Season Week Three

[Trevor]

1. UCLA
2. Stanford
3. Cal
4. USC
5. Long Beach State
6. UCSB
7. Pacific
8. UCSD
9. Princeton
10. UC Irvine
11. Pepperdine
12. UC Davis
13. Harvard
14. Navy
15. Santa Clara
16. Air Force
17. Brown
18. Whittier
19. Pomona-Pitzer
20. Johns Hopkins

[stats]

It's great to see some interlopers among the list of the MPSF - i.e., UCSD and Princeton. It's good for the sport to have some parity. And while I do think Princeton may be 'better' than UCI and Pepp in a head-to-head matchup, it's hard to defend their placement after their loss to Hopkins, no?

[dantedett]

[quote="Trevor"]
5. Long Beach State
6. UCSB


Result from Nor-Cal tourney for 5th place- Game 27 - FINAL - UC Santa Barbara 14, Long Beach St 13 (SD OT)

[eysports]

Princeton's loss to Hopkins was in a pool 4 ft. deep on one end and 5'6 in deep on the other end.

[stats]

@eysports. Thanks! Didn't know that. Is this the JHU homepool? I can't imagine they practice in a pool of that size...

[eysports]

Yes it is JHU home pool. It's hard to practice on this pool I would suspect- but it has also given them a big homepool advantage because they know how to play under these conditions.

[Doc]

eysports,

I hate to tell you but a pool that size is not an advantage to anyone. You might be interested in reading the article that follows:

http://www.waterpoloplanet.com/HTML_Hunkler_pages/13_Challenged_Pool.html

Doc

[eysports]

Doc - thanks for the read