Third Round set, all times Eastern 11/26, 5:00 pm: Butler at (1) Wake Forest 11/26, 8:00 pm: Coastal Carolina at (9) Stanford 11/25, 4:00 pm: Wisconsin at (5) Akron 11/26, 5:00 pm: Colgate at (4) Louisville 11/25, 6:00 pm: SMU at (3) North Carolina 11/25, 6:00 pm: Fordham at (6) Duke Date, time TBD: (10) Western Michigan at (7) Michigan State 11/25, 7:00 pm: New Hampshire at (2) Indiana
For those who may not know much --me-- about WMU they have a roster of primarily in-state guys with few (1? ) foreigners: http://www.wmubroncos.com/roster.aspx?path=msoc
I'm fine. The conference had a quarter of the second round teams and has a quarter of the third round teams. I imagine this ratio will hold to the semifinals. UVa losing doesn't surprise me because of how conservative Gelnocatch plays this time of year. It makes you susceptible to the random goal and losing 1-0. (Cavs only had 9 shots and 5 on-goal.) I picked Clemson to lose to CCU so that doesn't surprise me and I saw Tech going out this round, too. I also had Duke losing and Notre Dame winning. So, I expected them to be 5-3. Instead they're one off. That's soccer. But I'm not gonna mourn for the ACC when it still has 25 percent of the teams still standing.
So Stanford has not gone 341 minutes in the NCAA Tournament without scoring a goal. And has yet to be eliminated. That's because they haven't allowed a goal in the NCAA Tournament since the quarterfinals. In 2015. That's eight straight games against the top 32 teams in the country over 3 different seasons and they haven't been scored on. That's pretty damn impressive. Speaking of not allowing goals, Indiana has allowed four. All season. And that's with having 5 games have the 20 minutes of overtime.
Sweet 16 by conference. 4: ACC – Wake Forest, North Carolina, Duke, Louisville 3: Big Ten – Indiana, Michigan State, Wisconsin 2: MAC – Akron, Western Michigan 1: PAC-12 (Stanford), Big East (Butler), American (SMU), Patriot (Colagte), Sun Belt (Coastal Carolina), America East (New Hampshire), Atlantic 10 (Fordham) Eight former national champions, two more teams that have been to the Final Four. Will be interesting to see if there is a newbie at the College Cup this year.
Did anyone watch Albany-WMU? Don't know how to post videos, so I will link to the twitter post, but the University at Albany is quite displeased with the officiating against WMU: I’m just going to leave this here.. You can make the call🤷🏽♂️ @AmericaEast @NCAASoccer #wasitafoul? pic.twitter.com/oBLsu1OCQI— Afonso Pinheiro (@Afonsop09) November 20, 2017 Also apparently there was an incident after WMU's second goal involving a mass confrontation that was ignored?