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2012 NCAA Water Polo Rankings: USC Unanimously No. 1 In Preseason Poll

To no one's surprise the USC Trojans are ranked the No. 1 team in the country in the initial 2012 preseason poll, and they received every single first place vote. With USC sitting atop the preseason polls they will be looking to win their fifth straight NCAA title.

The entire MPSF conference takes the first nine spots in the poll, not sure when or if the entire league has taken the top spots in this poll. The first non-MPSF team is Loy from the Loyola Marymount WWPA and then the first CWPA team is the Princeton Tigers who are No. 12.

Rank Team 2011 Final Poll Points
1 University of Southern California
1 100
2 University of California-Los Angeles
2 94
3 University of California
3 91
4 Stanford University
4 85
5 University of California-Santa Barbara
7 78
6 University of California-Irvine
5 74
7 University of the Pacific
6 68
8 Pepperdine University 8 66
9 Long Beach State University
9 61
10 Loyola Marymount University
13 52
11 University of California-San Diego
11 51
12 Princeton University 10 46
13 University of California-Davis 12 43
14 United States Naval Academy
15 29
15 Santa Clara University
16 27
16 United States Air Force Academy
20 22
17 Concord University (Calif.)
14 21
18 St. Francis College (N.Y.)
17 19
19 California Baptist University
18 17
20 Brown University
19 9
RV Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
RV 2

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