Oct. 17, 2002

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Los Angeles, CA (Oct. 17) -- The Loyola Marymount University men's water polo team retained its ranking of seventh in the country in the lastest United States Water Polo top-20, earning a tie with Pacific at 64 points.

Retaining the top spot once again was Stanford University will all 100 points. Moving from fourth to second was the UC Irvine Anteaters, who travel to Burns Recreation and Aquatics Center today, Oct. 17, to take on the Lions at 3:00 p.m. With a record of 9-4, the Anteaters have played their entire schedule against teams in the top-20.

The Lions have a very similar schedule, playing their 17th consecutive team in the nation's top-20. LMU enters the contest at 8-10.

Here is the entire poll:

1 Stanford University			1	100
2 University of California, Irvine		4 	91
3 University of California, Berkeley  	5 	89
4 University of California, Los Angeles	2 	84
5 University of Southern California 		3 	82
6 Pepperdine University 			6 	79
7T Loyola Marymount University 		7 	64
7T University of the Pacific 		8 	64
9 Long Beach State University 		9 	59
10 United States Naval Academy		10 	57
11 University of California, San Diego 	11 	54
12 Princeton University 			12 	44
13 UC Santa Barbara 			14 	41
14 St. Francis College 			16T 	31
15 Queens College 				13 	29
16 Harvard University 			15 	24
17 California Baptist University 		16T 	23
18 Brigham Young University, Hawaii 		18 	15
19 University of California, Davis 		19 	9
20 Iona College 				NR	4