NCAA Tournament 3rd Round matches

@gauchodan - Thanks again for taking your time and doing these daily updates all season. It's much appreciated.

 

7 unseeded teams in the sweet 16 -- seems high, is it?

 

Many higher-ranked teams have lost, including six seeded teams. Somebody has to play!

 

Sure, just wondering how 7 unseeded in the sweet 16 compares historically (and too lazy to research it myself!)

 

Yes. Good. Spread it around.

 

I hate to single out the GK when the whole defense made mistakes, but UCLA’s GK Crockford really did poorly on Vermont’s two goals to make it 2-0 with 15 or so minutes to go. The first one he didn’t even react and the second was perfectly set up for a dive to his right and he inexplicably tried to stay on his feet and shuffle over for it. He’s a good GK and certainly made some great saves in the first half, but those two were head scratchers.

 

There are now 8 seeded teams left. That will probably change somewhat after today's matches.

 

The Duke-FIU match has been postponed from 1p to 3p today. I surmise that Duke didn't want FIU to have any advantage of playing in a rain storm after surving in similar conditions against NH.

 

Opinions on the Tulsa penalty call? 1:40 in the video:
https://www.ncaa.com/video/soccer-men/2022-11-26/late-second-half-pk-pushes-creighton-past-tulsa-2-1

 

absolutely the right call.

 

Yeah, I agree - GK caught him.

 

It's 2:42pm EST. Here's the ESPN+ feed for the Syracuse game:

#14 CORNELL VS. #3 SYRACUSE (THIRD ROUND)
-- Sunday, November 27 at 2:00 PM --This event has not yet started.

 

OK, you guys are all far more expert than me, but: it looked to me like the GK got to the ball first, punched it away, and then the Creighton forward tripped over him.

 

Orange avenge the regular-season loss, take down the Big Red 1-0.

 

GK did not get to the ball first.

 

Pitt scores a late goal man-down to upset UK 2-1

 

In the Pitt-KY match, I thought a yellow card not a red card was appropriate for the Pitt MF. IMO, the Pitt player lost his feet and slid into the player in atrocious conditions.

Then again, Jacqueson (sp) hit a pretty shot with little pressure on him [EDIT] in the final minutes...

 

Don't disagree. Vermont played well and deserved the win, but the whole UCLA team was exhausted, including Crockford. Two cross country flights in a week and most of the team had a rough stomach bug for the days in between so they were unable to practice. Combine that with a coach who has a weirdly short rotation for college soccer and inexplicably refuses to play a lot of talented, Junior and Senior players, and you can see why UCLA, who'd dominated much of the first half, clearly ran out of gas in the second.