How the #1 Seeds Did against Top 16`

[Jorislove]

To be clear, this has nothing to do with Oregon.

I have said and still think they are the team to beat.

I think healthy Stanford Is plenty good too.

If you speak the truth, I don't think your fan base follows. It will be a very fiesty game if the two teams meet. Just saying.
With that said I mean all 3 teams can vouch for the #1 overall seed. I don't think Oregon cares either way, they will want to win no matter who they go through.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

I don't get to watch the Pac 12 a whole bunch.

I guess it is likely South Carolina might have to go through 2-3 Pac 12 teams to win it all, so I'll probably have a better idea.

My general observation is that I saw Stanford play a pretty even game with Miss State and UCLA struggle at Georgia.

I sometimes wonder if we are just having to take the Pac 12s word for some of those teams being really good.

In general women's basketball tends to be pretty simple. If you're really good you don't lost much at all and there aren't that many really good teams.

So when you ask me to believe you've got 6 national level teams in one conference based on them beating each other up...I'm not sure how likely that is.

But at the very least those teams are playing a lot of tough games and that probably means they are pretty tough themselves.

The PAC-12 has got to do something about their network. At some point, the lack of exposure has got to hurt recruiting, IMO.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

The fact is that with geography playing a fairly big role in the women's bracket and the location of the regionals, the top three teams are going to their natural locations regardless and the teams on the 2 line are likely going to their natural sites as well. The biggest question is who gets the 4th #1 seed, not the order the committee assigns to the other three #1 seeds.

The second issue in my mind is with the Pac12 likely getting 5 teams in the top 4 seed lines why would you penalize the 2 or 3 seeded team by sending them across the country rather than sending at least one of them to Portland. You are going to end up with at least one elite 8 possible match up and yet they are going to penalize one #2 seed by sending them across the country to Portland and another by sending them across the country to Greenville or Fort Wayne?

It depends on the 2 seed. If UCLA is a 2, there isn't much difference between going to Portland vs. Ft. Wayne or Greenville except for the time zone difference.