I figured a thread devoted to the selections was necessary, a lot of tough choices to be made, best of luck to all teams.
Stanford is a lock. No losses. 1 tie and undisputed #1 with several quality wins. UNC 17-3-1 Losses to Santa Clara, FSU and Stanford all by one goal. Tie to Texas early in season. Several quality wins. FSU being the biggest. USC 15-2-2 Losses to UCLA and Stanford Ties with FSU and Utah UCLA 14-3-1 Losses to FSU, Wash. St and Stanford, Tie to UF USC was big win. FSU 15-4-2 Losses to UNC , Clemson, UM (real bad loss)BC Ties with USC and NCSt. Big wins UCLA, Vanderbilt, UVA twice, Duke and UNC. Georgetown 17-0-3 Ties to VT, Duke and Xavier Biggest wins against WVU Baylor 17-5 Losses to USF, Ark. Ariz, Texas and WVU Big wins, Butler was ranked at the time (not now), WVU IMO, you can make a 1 Seed case for everyone above EXCEPT BAYLOR! I may be being a homer, but FSU has the most quality wins, but they also have the worst loss (UM in a lopsided game with a golden goal as UM's only shot).
1 Stanford 2 Baylor 3 Tenn 4 Santa Clara 1 GTown 2 Duke 3 WVU 4 PSU 1 UNC 2 UCLA 3 Tex AM. 4 Texas 1 FSU 2 USC 3 UVA 4 Vandy
Fair enough. If we make it past our gauntlet of a region, we will get rewarded with Stanford. Oh well, got to beat whomever is in front of you. I feel like UNC has a real shot at making the CC Final!
Wow Duke got F’d with Rutgers in the 1st rd??! That’s ridiculous And did the committee really just completely omit Colorado??!! WTF
Southern Cal is a 4 seed? Uh, no. What arguably deserving team got left out? Pepperdine and Colorado are two, I know.
Seems like the committee was generous to the Big10 (or whatever it is called nowadays)--with both Wisconsin and Ohio State getting it. I don't think either CP or Chris at All White Kit had either one of them making it, did they? Illinois, on the other hand, gets left out.
I hear you but the Buffs lost their last 4 games. Included in those losses was a 7-0 loss to Stanford. That stretch probably weighed heavily in the decision.
IF I counted correctly (good chance I screwed up) Heres the breakdown by conference ACC - 10 SEC - 9 Big 12- 6 Big 10 - 6 PAC 12 - 5
I just looked at the full bracket. Summary above was inaccurate in a couple of spots. 1 Stanford, 2 Tennessee 3 Tex A&M 4 BC Stanford should cruise 1 UNC 2. UCLA 3. Santa Clara 4. Texas UNC already played SC and Tex. 1 Georgetown 2 Baylor 3 UVA 4. Duke I like UVA honestly 1 FSU 2 WVU 3 USCe 4. USCw USC is way underseeded. We could meet them in the 16 That's a toughie.
Dang right USC is tough, talent all over with arguably the best goal keeper in the country! One game at a time, though.
I’m assuming you’re talking bout the gamecocks?! The Trojans do NOT have one of the best gk in the country. I’d agree if you’re talking about Krzyzewski (sp?)
Southern Cal may be the most criminally under rated team in the tourney. We may end up playing them in the round of 16. Oh well, if we want to win the CC, we have to beat the best out there!
Ok, but that stretch included Stanford, USC and UCLA. Do you think other at large teams would have done better.
So. Yes I am a USC homer. But Jesus. We have 2 loses (both in overtime/double ot) spent the last 6 weeks as #2 in the coaches poll. Now have an RPI of 8 and get a 4 seed which means we likely get 1 home game. Our girls will most likely fly to Tallahassee where we will spend minimum 4 days. If we are lucky to get through that we would fly to most likely West Virginia or South Carolina. If we are lucky enough to get thru to cc then we go straight to Cary. What is the committee thinking when they are giving this team a 4 seed in the east coast. The girls could potentially miss 3 weeks of class ahead of finals. That’s one hell of a middle finger
I couldn't agree more. I'd prefer not to play you in the round of 16. You guys should be a high 2 seed at worst!
Other than the other kind of football score against Stanford, the Buffs played USC and UCLA close...both one goal games. Outplayed Utah last game but just couldn't put one in. No excuse to lose that game at home though. The Buffs are forced to play three almost always weak RPI teams in their non-conf annual Colorado Cup series, which hurts them.
No it's not. I am not a supporter of either one but I was at the game a couple weeks ago in Evanston and Northwestern completely outplayed Illinois, IMO. Maybe it was the game-plan Rayfield set up for Illinois, I don't know. Illinois finally started playing after they got a red card late in the game and even scored while short-handed, but NU was better. Northwestern beat Illinois on the schedule and so they are in and Illinois is out.