The 2025 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship occurred from December 5–7, 2025, in Stanford, California at the Avery Aquatic Center and hosted by Stanford University. This was the 57th NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship. The UCLA Bruins were the defending national champions.

Qualifying teams Six conferences were granted automatic qualification to the championship: Big West Conference (Big West), Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC), Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC), West Coast Conference (WCC), and the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA). Two additional teams earned entry into the tournament with at-large bids, with both of them coming from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

Seed Team Conference Bid type Appearance1 Southern California MPSF Automatic 40th2 UCLA MPSF At-large 40th3 Stanford MPSF At-large 36th4 Fordham MAWPC Automatic 5th Concordia University-Irvine (CUI) WWPA Automatic 1st Princeton NWPC Automatic 11th San Jose State WCC Automatic 6th UC Davis Big West Automatic 10th

Schedule All times are Eastern time December 5December 5December 6December 7 First Round Games 1 & 2 First Round Games 3 & 4 Semifinals Championship 3:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Bracket The championship featured a knockout format where schools that lost were eliminated from the tournament. The championship pairings were announced on Monday, November 24, 2025, by the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Committee.

All Tournament Team After the championship, the All-NCAA Tournament First and Second teams were announced.

First Team West Temkin (Goalkeeper) – (Stanford) Ben Forer (Stanford) Frederico Jucá Carsalade (Most Outstanding Player, UCLA) Chase Dodd (UCLA) Ryder Dodd (UCLA) Robert López Duart (Southern California) Straninja Krstic (Southern California)

Second Team Pablo De Souza (Goalkeeper) – (Concordia University-Irvine) Andras Toth (Fordham) Logan McCarroll (Princeton) Mateja Bosic (San Jose State) Botond Balogh (Stanford) Tommy Kiesling (UC Davis) Mihailo Vukazic (Southern California)

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