Past weeks upsets & ties 26 Oct #10 Seattle loses to unranked W. Washingon 1-2 27 Oct #20 Adelphi squeaks by #25 New Haven on PKs #18 Quincy loses to unranked Indianapolis 0-1 28 Oct #5 Metro St loses 1-2 to Ft Lewis 29 Oct Adelphi again squeaks by on PKs, this time against unranked Bridgeport Carson-Newman also wins on PKs, against #22 Catawba
I think in the far west UCSD will get the one seed, Seattle, based on their win of SPU, the number two. Which leaves three and four. CHico was forth, lost to UCSD in the finals, but beat sonoma in the semi's. I think that will be enough for a 3 or 4 seed. The last option is pretty open, I think. Western Wash. beat seattle and tied Central Washington. That gave them 2nd place in the GNAC. They did lose to SPU the week before, who are in third. So pretty open in my view, Do you take Western Washington, based on their better conference finish, and the fact that they split head to head in confernece with SPU? So my best guess 1: UCSD 2: Seattle 3. Chico 4. Western Wash. any other guessers.
Northeast Region West Chester* (20-0) vs. Slippery Rock (12-6-1) and Indiana (Pennsylvania) (14-6) vs. New Haven (12-4-4) New England Region Franklin Pierce* (17-2) vs. Massachusetts-Lowell (10-5-3) and Saint Rose (16-2-1) vs. Bryant (15-7-1) Central Region Nebraska-Omaha* (18-0-1) vs. University of Central Missouri (12-4-3) and Washburn (15-1-4) vs. Missouri Southern State (11-4-4) Great Lakes Region Grand Valley State* (15-1-1) vs. Quincy (16-4) and Mercyhurst (16-3) vs. Indianapolis (16-4-1) Southeast Region Carson Newman* (13-1-1) vs. Columbus State (18-3-1) and Tusculum (12-2-3) vs. Armstrong Atlantic (18-3-1) South Region Tampa* (15-2-1) vs. Nova Southeastern (11-3-2) and West Florida (15-2-2) vs. St. Leo (14-3-1) Midwest Region Metro State* (19-2) vs. West Texas A&M (14-3-1) and St. Edward’s (17-2-1) vs. Central Oklahoma (18-3). Far West Region UC San Diego* (18-1-2) vs. Western Washington (14-4-1) and Seattle (15-2-2) vs. Seattle Pacific (16-4) Games will be played November 2 and November 4
The info listed in the post above can be found here: http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/story/9766202 And for further championship tournament information: http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/schedules/divii I'm glad to see that UCSD is hosting the Far West pod, but the CCAA (and especially Chico State) sure got jobbed by only having them make the playoffs.
Tournament teams A-J ratings Okay, here are first round pairings. I’ve used the 23 October A-J ratings to show the comparative strengths of those match-ups. A few of the ratings might change a bit (Metro should certainly drop after their 2nd loss) because of this past weeks games. While the discrepancy is not as bad as last year, it’s apparent that the Western two groupings are by far the strongest. Those two average 1405, while the other six average 1285. The difference would have been even more pronounced if Chico State had been selected instead of Western Washington. Central - 1248 UNO 1502 vs. Central Missouri 1073 Washburn 1234 vs. Missouri Southern 1182 Great Lakes - 1319 GVSU 1465 vs. Quincy 1302 Mercyhurst 1264 vs. Indianapolis 1246 New England - 1322 FPC 1469 vs. Massachusetts-Lowell 1196 Saint Rose 1422 vs. Bryant 1201 Northeast - 1243 West Chester 1493 vs. Slippery Rock 1099 Indiana PA 1161 vs. New Haven 1178 Southeast - 1274 Carson-Newman 1387 vs. Columbus State 1121 Tusculum 1271 vs. Armstrong Atlantic 1218 South - 1317 Tampa 1448 vs. Nova Southeastern 1187 West Florida 1320 vs. Saint Leo 1273 Far West - 1377 UCSD 1456 vs. Western Washington 1260 Seattle 1396 vs. Seattle Pacific 1396 Midwest - 1434 Metro 1646 vs. West Texas A&M 1301 Saint Edwards 1384 vs. Central Oklahoma 1403 - - - - Teams Left Out that had one of the top 32 A-J ratings 1373 Chico State 1303 NKU 1282 Southern Illinois 1263 Merrimack 1260 Humboldt State 1248 CSU Dominguez Hills 1246 Northern Michigan 1218 St Mary’s TX
Re: Tournament teams A-J ratings Interesting that Nebraska-Omaha and Metro State have the largest discrepency of ratings over the rest of the field.. if you're looking for teams that should cruise through their regional, those are your best bets. For once, head-to-head didn't seem to be the deciding factor in where teams are or whether they made it or not. Columbus State is in the Southeast region over Catawba despite Catawba owning a 1-0 win over the Cougars earlier in the season. Few can deny they had a better overall season than the Indians, though, and kudos to the NCAA committee for realizing that and putting them in.
Those A-J ratings are terrible, I saw at least one team that had three of it's already played games (as of the date listed on the ratings) not included in their record.
Yeah I agree Chico got totally jobbed. The CCAA is as tough of a conference as there is in the country, they win the northern section, go to finals, lose to the number one seed and.....no respect. I think Home field is a big advantage in these affairs. So my crystal ball says metro and UCSD advance....
Championship Seedings I hope, then, that UCSD is ranked higher than Metro so they would have the home field if they both advance out of their pods...
Here's an article from Soccer America with info on some of the top regional seeds. I was impressed with the 20 - 0 record that West Chester had. http://www.socceramerica.com/article.asp?Art_ID=562137989
Soccer America article Thanks for the link. I'd be more impressed with that record if West Chester had played some better opposition. Now, they might be a very good team that just has the misfortune to play in a very week conference and against non-conference foes that are having a bad year... The only NSCAA ranked team that they played was Indiana(PA). Their opponents average A-J rating is only 913. GVSU is the only other of the top 8 teams who has that low a rating: 1162 CSU Dominguez Hills* 1157 Quincy 1157 Southern Illinois* 1157 Wisc-Parkside* 1156 St Edwards 1153 UCSD 1153 Chico St* 1153 Sonoma St* 1153 CSU Los Angeles* 1136 Bellarmine* 1116 NKU* 1112 Indianapolis 1097 FPU 1091 Metro 1090 Central Okla 1088 Humboldt St* 1088 Bryant 1078 St Rose 1076 Merimack* 1054 Tampa 1029 Tusculum 1008 UNO 1007 W Florida 1007 Carson-Newman 1003 West Texas A&M 0983 Seattle 0983 Seattle Pacific 0983 Western Washington 0914 GVSU 0913 West Chester 0913 Slippery Rock 0909 Washburn 0905 Mercyhurst 0890 St Leo 0886 Armstrong Atlantic Those with an * are the ones who weren't selected to be in the tournament.
I agree with your comments on strength of schedule. I'm some what disapointed that the PSAC has opted to have the schools to play so many conference games. There are 13 schools in the conference, with two divisions of 6 and 7 schools each. It looks like each school plays the schools in their division twice and the other division once. Although West Chester and IUP in different divisions played twice. I wish they would have played more schools in the region. Although the schools in the western part of the state would end up playing out of region games if the stayed with schools that were near. But still a 20 - 0 record is still an accomplishment.
Far West First Game - Half Time No score between Seattle & Seattle Pacific. The 'Soccer Gamewatcher' seems to work pretty good!
SU vs SPU game No score through 90 minutes. I went to the UCSD site and found their 'Live Game Stats' page from the link they had for the playoffs. Once there, you just click on the little camera in the view column. http://www.ucsdtritons.com/liveStats/liveStats.dbml?SPSID=29908&SPID=2339&DB_OEM_ID=5800&KEY=&DB_OEM_ID=5800&DB_LANG=&IN_SUBSCRIBER_CONTENT=
SPU-SU 2nd OT [R] Seattle Pacifics Godoy scored at the 107:39 mark. It will be tough for Seattle to come back with so little time remaining.
UCSD versus W. Washington [R] 2nd game has gotten underway, and Triton midfielder Kathy Sepulveda has gotten on the board, with Chelsea Campbell getting the assist.
UCSD-WW second half I lost my internet connection for a while there. UCSD has added 2 more goals, another early one from Kathy Sepulveda and one 5-1/2 minutes after that by Kelly Cochran. The Tritons now have a 15-1 advantage in shots and an 8-1 advantage in SOGs.
Waning minutes of game Game over! The Tritons got a 4th goal with just over a minute to go, as Nicole Pepper scored off an assist by Aly. So it is UCSD against Seattle Pacific on Saturday. * * * * Overtime Godoy Goal Lifts SPU Women to 1-0 Upset Over Seattle http://www.spu.edu/depts/athletics/media0607/61102womensoccer-ncaaregion.htm
Division II Playoffs [R] UCSD defeated Seattle Pacific 3-0 in the only game played yesterday. The other 7 regional playoff games happen today. For results of those games, you can go to: http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/scoreboard/div2/2006/1105
A-J ratings updated thru 30 October Albyn-Jones ratings update finally showed up on site. Here is the listing down to the 1200 level. 1565 Metro 1518 W Chester 1511 UNO 1502 FPU 1467 Tampa 1465 GVSI 1454 UCSD 1414 Central Okla 1399 St Edwards 1389 St Rose 1379 Seattle 1379 Seattle Pacific 1369 Chico St 1360 Carson-N 1332 W Fla 1304 NKU 1288 Mercyhurst 1282 St Leo 1279 Quincy 1273 W Tex A&M 1270 Indianapolis 1266 W Wash 1264 S Illinois 1261 Bellarmine 1260 N Michigan 1259 Humboldt St 1246 CSUDH 1243 Merrimack 1240 Armstrong 1239 Tusculum 1228 Bryant 1222 Washburn 1213 Columbus St 1212 Sonoma St 1203 Montana St 1202 St Marys Metro dropped about 90 points after that 2nd loss.
Shouldn't this thread really be renamed the "DII West Coast Teams Thread" since that's what 90% of it is?
Thread Title The thread title was meant to be inclusionary - to give posters someplace to put their remarks if they did not want to start a thread about their particular team, conference, area of the country, or the national rankings/ratings. It's too bad that there aren't more out there who would want to do so...
Playoff results Not much in the way of 'upsets'... GVSU 2-1 over Indianapolis http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2_1105_0103/2006 UNO 2-2 Washburn, UNO wins on PKs http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2_1105_0203/2006 Tusculum 1-0 Carson-Newman, in OT http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2_1105_0303/2006 Tampa 2-0 over West Florida http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2_1105_0403/2006 West Chester 4-1 over Indiana (PA) http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2w_1105_0503/2006 Franklin Pierce 3-1 over St. Rose http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2_1105_0603/2006 Metro State 2-0 over St. Edwards http://www.ncaasports.com/soccer/womens/recaps/d2_1105_0803/2006