Tennessee was bad this year. Looked like one of the worst coached teams in the conference. Nobody did less with the same talent level.
Non-conference didn't look bad when scheduled, but look at the results of those big10 tens. Loss to Big10 10th place Nebraska 1-0 at home, loss to Big10 T12 Indiana 1-0 on neutral field, win over Big10 11th Purdue 3-2 2ot and probably the best result a tie at Big10 4 Northwestern 0-0. And a fourth place finish for NW was expected. So just scheduling big10 tens to say you have a good non-conference schedule may not have worked out.
W TCU (110) T SMU (163) L Indiana (111) W Purdue (71) T Oregon St (99) T Northwestern (41) L Nebraska (44)
Yea, it's nothin' personal... the RPI is simply math based on how the W-L records of your team, your opponents, and their opponents worked out for this season. How tough your non-conference opponents looked on paper before the season started doesn't count.
LSU 2-1 Kentucky Wildcats were ranked earlier in the year, finished 0-4-1 before the loss today Looks like the season is over for UK (RPI #53)
Indiana wasn't really that bad. I know they scored only 11 goals of which two were pk's and they set a program low win-loss record and had no league wins for just the first time, doesn't make them pretty bad. As OldStony rates them, it was an "oops! what was that season". Hey, they tied that decent Northwestern team.
It might be the worst season in the history of the program. I don't remember them ever being that bad.
the two or three kids that transferred out killed you. They were great players (thinking of kid at UF and Harvard)
Since when has Georgia ever really been that good in women's soccer? I would rank them 8th (out of 14 SEC teams) in terms of their history of success up to date. 1.) Florida 2.) Texas A&M 3.) South Carolina 4.) Tennessee (has won a few SEC tournament titles) 5.) Auburn (they have had some good teams in the past, and have made multiple SEC tournament finals) 6.) Missouri 7.) Kentucky 8.) Georgia 9.) LSU 10.) Arkansas 11.) Mississippi 12.) Alabama 13.) Vanderbilt 14.) Mississippi State
Last year, Georgia was 5-5-1 in the SEC. With modest improvement (ie 6 wins), they would have been right there with USC (5th) and A&M (6th).
at 5-12-1, this probably is their worst ..... '02 8-11-1 '04 4-9-5 '12 7-11-2 Serious work to do there to get back in gear.
QF1.%2 Missouri - LSU %7 10' 0-1 LSU left ck into scrum, batted down to Alex Thomas in a 1-v-3. Thomas backshields, falls at 6-top, no call. LSU collect at 10m 6-left, juke left, Thomas gets up. Ground shot misses -- but directly into Thomas's foot at 6-top left, stopped with zero clang, turn-and-shoot just inside left post. Right post defender still on goalline, keeping everybody onside 18' 0-2 LSU short pass into a 1-v-2 at 12m 6-left. Spin-cw-shot blocked, skitters square right to Gabriela Maldonado 1-v-1 at 10m left post. One good shake-and-bake centerward, shoots just inside left post. LSU getting 1-2 unmarked + 1-2 add'l 1-v-1s around Missouri's 10m arc deep inside box, with impunity and vivacity. Miz unable to deny entry nor challenge the dribble On the other end, LSU clear crosses quickly, Missouri aren't getting equivalent chances. 28' 0-2 LSU medium chip into a 1-v-2 at 14m mid-right, square pass left into ... a 1-v-1 at 12m 6-left, spin-and-shoot blocked. The speed ...
59' 1-2 #7 Kaitlyn Clark dribbles to box top mid-left, speculative long shot right instep to 2/5 left head-high. LSU GK right there, tries a right-hand-only punch/slap -- awful foul tip off the right edge, deflects into back left edge, wut?? She could have leaned her torso into the path and blocked it with both hands and her forehead ...
88'28" 1-2 LSU #6 drives hard down to 6m box right, hard cross to 5m left post, #17 dive-heads juuuuust wide left low. Like Schmidt in the WWC bronze match vs. England. FT 1-2. Oddly, LSU had better ARPI (39), so this win probably solidifies their bubble lock. Despite the %2 seed, Missouri had ARPI 50 + this loss, which might knock them out All high seeds rail: this is why tourneys suck
QF3. #5 %1 Florida - Vanderbilt #8 75'14" 2-1 Florida left ck (their 15th!), nosedives to 3m left post. #22 Pamela Begić gets a back-skull micro-deflection, ball bounces once through crowded goalmouth to goalline 1/4 right, and in. That was so slight that the corner was probably bending in already. Florida's Savannah Jordan is a stud, but Vanderbilt's lone forward #12 Simone Charley is electric, with Good Alex Morgan speed , and Vanderbilt GK #32 Christiana Ogunsami is stuff-blocking shots like Good Hope Solo. FT 2-1.
Coach Darren Ambrose did a real nice job getting Vanderbilt back on track. Commodores will need to be more consistent in 2016 (especially SEC games at home).
QF4. #19/%4 Auburn - South Carolina #16/%5 19'14" 0-1 SC #5 Sophie Groff chips from midfield left touch to #7 Savannah McCaskill facing her at 25m arc left. McCaskill turns and threads a flat diagonal pass to arc top mid-right for #2 Anna Conklin poaching on the RB's back and winning the back-cut clean. Conklin leads through box top mid-right to 10m 6-right, shoots under GK into back left low. All Auburn before and since ... but soccer is like that.
South Carolina - Auburn went to penalties, and the first to take for USC was a player whom I believe recently tore her ACL and obviously did not play in the game. Bit of a bold/strange decision, and she missed, rather weakly. Auburn won it.