Ags will play Pacific on Thursday at USC. TIgers won easily over Pomona Pitzer, 16-2. In today's other game, Harvard defeated George Washington, 15-13, in OT. Harvard will meet USC on Thursday.

Bruins, and Tigers and Bears! Oh my!

And Sagehens, Colonials, Crimson, Trojans....

Most importantly, Go Ags!

And wrong I was. There doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to the seedings, but here it is. Pacific will play Pomona-Pitzer on Saturday the 25th with the winner playing Davis on the 30th. USC won the MPSF and is seeded third. UCLA came in second, but is seeded first and Cal came in third but is seeded 2nd. Pacific was ranked higher than Davis all year and beat the Ags in the regular season finale, but has a first round or play-in against Pomona-Pitzer. That may be because Pacific's conference, the Golden Coast, is in only its second year of existence and first year with an autobid to the NCAA's.

http://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/gametool/brackets/waterpolo-men_nc_2017.pdf

In any event, Go Ags!

So I guess the running score after the end of fall sports is 15-15.

Sorry, (but take that as you will, UOP is among my back-up schools)...UOP 9, UCI 5. Tigers win the Golden Coast Conference Tournament and earn the conference's first ever autobid.

Last spot should be determined next weekend when George Washington, winners of the Mid-Atlantic, travel to Cambridge, MA to play Harvard, winners of the Norheast.

NCAA's are at USC the weekend of Dec. 2, 3, but there will be a couple of play-ins earlier that week. I suspect USC and UCLA will get the byes. UOP will meet Pomona-Pitzer in one play-in and UCD will meet the east coast champ in the other. Perhaps a rematch of last years play-in against Harvard? Ags beat Harvard earlier this year.

Or I could be wrong.

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-wpolo/recaps/111917aaa.html

Final: UCD 9, UCSD 6.

Ags win WWPA and earn autobid to NCAA's.

Go Ags!

(Pomona-Pitzer won the SCIAC tourney and I think (not sure if score is final or partial) USC defeated UCLA to win MPSF title. GCC - Pacific v. UCI starts later today.)

Looked at the NCAA site a little closer. USD gets an autobid. They get to travel from sea level to Flagstaff.

Other semifinal: UCSD 11, Cal Baptist 9

UCD v UCSD at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon for tournament championship and auto bid to NCAAs. This is at least the fourth year in a row Ags and Tritons have met for title.


Other California water polo conferences finals, all tomorrow:
Mountain Pacific: USC v UCLA
Golden Coast: UC Irvine v. Pacific
SCIAC: Whittier v. Pomona-Pitzer

Go Ags!

Semi Final Score: UCD 17, Air Force Academy 8

Davis will play Air Force in one semifinal.

UCSD will play California Baptist in the other.

Top seed UCD defeated #8 seed Fresno Pacific in first round Western Water Polo Ass'n play, 22-7. They will play the winner of this evening's match between #4 seed Concordia (Irvine) and #5 seed Air Force Academy in a semi-final tomorrow.

Game recap:
http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-wpolo/recaps/111717aaa.html

WWPA Championship site:
http://www.thewwpa.com/2017_WWPA_Mens_Championship

As the ucdavisaggies.com recap points out, the Ags' season record now stands at 20-6, marking the first time in history that the team has had back-to-back 20 win seasons.

Pacific 2, Fullerton 1. Pacific moves on to play Stanford.

Great season for the men. Go Ags.

(Fullerton will host Pacific on Thursday. Winner faces Stanford on Sunday.)

I think a little Iowa v. an Ohio State, Auburn v. Georgia, Miami v. Notre Dame, Iowa State v. Oklahoma beat down would be a good thing.

Meanwhile, Slack took it to Cal Poly, 49-14, "in a game that was not as close as the score would suggest." Slack is still thinking play-offs.

UCD men finished 16th and the women finished 20th in the NCAA West Regional Cross Country Championships, while the Slack State men finished 23rd and the women 22nd. This gives the Ags 10 points in the Causeway Cup standings, bringing the running score to UCD 15 - CSUS 10.

Order is restored in the universe.

And because I knew you would want to know, both schools athletics websites have brought their Causeway Cup pages into the 2017-18 school year.

Go Ags!

It is November 7, fall sports are almost over, yet neither school has updated its Causeway Cup page for the 2017-2018 school year.

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/ot/Causeway-Cup-1617.html
http://hornetsports.com/fan_info/causewaycup/2016-17

Slack opened it up in the 4th, now 43-21 with less than four minutes to go.

Good day to be an Aggie and from Iowa.