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Pepperdine Men’s Water Polo is picking up where they left last season. With their terrific 2018 recruiting class already making strides in their sophomore seasons, three fifth-year seniors and a favorable schedule, Pepperdine could make a strong postseason push once again.
It’s been 22 years since Pepperdine won an NCAA title in water polo. Within that drought, the crown of NCAA champion has been in a rotation of USC, UCLA, Cal Berkeley and Stanford.
After a third-place finish in the Gold Coast Conference last season, Pepperdine is off to an 8-1 start and has already beaten the team that they could not get past at the end of the season last year: Long Beach State.