Oct. 9, 2002

The Loyola Marymount Univesity men's water polo team, following a pair of impressive wins against teams in the top-10 last weekend, moved up one spot to number seven in the recent National Collegiate Top-20 rankings.

The Lions earned their second straight win over Long Beach State in triple overtime, 13-12, and then claimed the program's first-ever win over Pacific, 12-7, in the NorCal Tourament last weekend. The two victories pushed the Lions one place over Pacific in the rankings, claiming their highest ranking in program history.

Standford remained at the top of the poll, but UCLA moved to number two and cut the Cardinal's margin by claiming the championship at the NorCal Tournament. Stanford and UCLA are followed by USC, UC Irvine, California, Pepperdine and then the Lions.

LMU will take on UCLA on Sunday, Oct. 13 and 11th-ranked UC San Diego on Friday, Oct. 11.

Men's Water Polo Top-20
1 Stanford University
2 University of California, Los Angeles
3 University of Southern California
4 University of California, Irvine
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 Pepperdine University
7 Loyola Marymount University
8 University of the Pacific
9 Long Beach State University
10 United States Naval Academy
11 University of California, San Diego
12 Princeton University
13 Queens College
14 University of California, Santa Barbara
15 Harvard University
16T St. Francis College
16T California Baptist University
18 Brigham Young University, Hawaii
19 University of California, Davis
20 United States Air Force Academy