"We were struggling in the beginning," senior driver Dror Bar-Ziv said. "But now we are getting along remarkably well. This is the best team I played on in the past four years." With the addition of many new players, this year's team is making connections both inside and outside the pool.
"This team the best coherence I have ever seen," Jacobs said. "We play well together and are having fun, too."
The Northern Division Championship will consist of eight teams competing for four spots to go on to the Eastern Division Championships.
The first game determines the top seeds. All the winners advance to Easterns and the rest of the tournament decides rank.
The winner of the Eastern Championships, hosted by the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. will advance to the NCAA Championships, the main event of intercollegiate water polo.
"We are at the pinnacle of the season," Bar-Ziv said. "We are looking towards the Northerns as something we can do as a team."