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2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship

Tournament details
Dates	May 10, 13-15
Teams	10
Final positions
Champions	USC Trojans
Runner-up	Stanford Cardinal
Third place	UCLA Bruins
Fourth place	Michigan Wolverines
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Best player	Stephania Haralabidis
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The 2016 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship was the 16th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the UCLA Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles, California from May 13–15, 2016. The USC Trojans defeated the 2015 champions, the Stanford Cardinal, 8-7 to win their fifth national title, while finishing the season 26-0.^[1]

Since there is only one NCAA championship for women's water polo, all women's water polo programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, are eligible. For the first time, ten teams participated in the tournament. The automatic qualifiers came from the following conferences: Big West Conference, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and Western Water Polo Association. Three additional teams were selected at large without geographical restrictions by the selection committee. The four lowest seeded teams played in the two play-in games on Tuesday, May 10.

• Site: RIMAC (UC San Diego), San Diego, California

• Site: Spieker Aquatics Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, California

TBD

• NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship

• Game time each day: Noon, 1:45 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m. (local time)