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ACC Championship on now... ESPN. #1 Clemson vs #3 Duke
 
TheFarmFan said:
Who you callin' mediocre?! ;) We are hopeful those wins solidified our NCAA bid and a return to the tournament after wandering through the desert of (way more than mere) mediocrity for the past half decade.
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I'd expect Stanford to get in. Creeping up near .500 in conference and well over for overall record. Meanwhile UW might be jeopardizing hosting thru Super Regionals. On paper the Dawgs seem like a Championship contender but they sure don't look like it at the moment. WAY too many good hitters to be generating so little offense. The pitching is a disaster other than Plain, and she might be showing signs of being worn out after throwing too many games and innings this season.
 
Three more outs... three more outs

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Arizona did take one from UCLA last night. They were leading 1-0 most of the way thru the game today...until UCLA exploded for 7 runs in the 5th.

Let's see if my Huskies can get back on track today. Just underway.
 
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UCLA, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Florida are the 4 best teams in the country.

I can see somewhat of a small chance that Oklahoma St and Florida St can win the whole thing, but I think the Top 4 are clearly the best 4 teams in the country and it's gonna be a dogfight between those 4 in Oklahoma City.

Also..........Ashley Rogers, Elizabeth Hightower, and Montana Fouts are the Top 3 SEC pitchers BY FAR.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Let's see if my Huskies can get back on track today.
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Not what I had in mind. They did win 1-0. 2 runs scored in the last 3 games. Bats have completely disappeared.
 
Washington got the #16 (and final) seed. That is totally insane. They were a top 5 ranked team almost the entire season. There is no possible way for the committee to justify this. If they win their Regional they'll get to face Oklahoma in the Super Regional.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Washington got the #16 (and final) seed. That is totally insane. They were a top 5 ranked team almost the entire season. There is no possible way for the committee to justify this. If they win their Regional they'll get to face Oklahoma in the Super Regional.
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Insane. They beat Arizona and Arizona St twice, beat Oregon 3 times, and even their bad losses to Stanford they took 2 out of 4 over them.

Texas is #12, they're not good at all lol. They're 0-7 against Oklahoma and Oklahoma St and they don't have any wins against any amazing teams.... except maybe LSU who doesn't really pass the eye test of a #7 team. Mississippi State can beat Texas. If it wasn't for a bad late bat contact call, we win that game against them, and I think we feel good about a rematch if it gets there. (probably not)

Huskies walked out of the room.... lol. They're quite unhappy.
 
Does Clemson have a beef? Not only unseeded, but shipped off to face Bama in Tuscaloosa. Pretty rough for the regular season ACC champ. 29-5 in conference 42-6 overall. Florida St. and Duke were both seeded.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Does Clemson have a beef? Not only unseeded, but shipped off to face Bama in Tuscaloosa. Pretty rough for the regular season ACC champ. 29-5 in conference 42-6 overall. Florida St. and Duke were both seeded.
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Someone commented on a Duke site that Clemson didn't play either Florida State or Notre Dame... and lost 2 games to both VPI and Duke in the regular season. So that's probably why they didn't get seeded.

Meanwhile Duke got a #13 seed... but was placed in the Athens region along with UGA. First game for Duke??? vs UNC-Greensboro (my spartans) :oops:
 
triaddukefan said:
Someone commented on a Duke site that Clemson didn't play either Florida State or Notre Dame... and lost 2 games to both VPI and Duke in the regular season. So that's probably why they didn't get seeded.

Meanwhile Duke got a #13 seed... but was placed in the Athens region along with UGA. First game for Duke??? vs UNC-Greensboro (my spartans) :oops:
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I didn't do a deep dive. Darned imbalanced conference schedules make it really hard to judge various teams.
 
Another insane thing about Washington's seed is they have to face Michigan in their regional. The second best Pac-12 team and the top Big Ten team should not be in the same regional. Michigan deserved the #16 seed and Washington deserved much higher. The RPI's of all the SEC teams are highly inflated.

Also insane is the amount of intraconference superregionals. Assuming the seeded teams all advance out of their regionals (which is far from given), the super match-ups would be:
#1 Oklahoma vs. #16 Washington (This should be a WWCS match-up?!?!?)
#2 UCLA vs. #15 ASU (Both Pac 12?!?!?)
#3 Alabama vs. #14 Kentucky (Both SEC?!?!?)
#4 Florida vs. #13 Duke
#5 Oklahoma St. vs. #12 Texas (Both Big 12?!?!?)
#6 Arkansas vs. #11 Arizona
#7 LSU vs. #10 Florida St.
#8 Missouri vs. #9 Tennessee (Both SEC ?!?!?)

So much wrong...
 
I certainly can agree that the SEC is the nation's strongest softball conference top to bottom but what I don't agree with is that it was worthy enough to have 8 of the seeded 16 teams. Regardless, I won't be rooting for the SEC at all anyway because my team is UCLA but I wouldn't mind seeing Oklahoma and my Hawaii girl Jocelyn Alo take it again. Also would like to see Arizona make a deep run since they are the reason why I started watching softball initially with the teams of Jenny Dalton and the two Leahs (Braatz and O'Brien-Amico). Can't believe they haven't won a title since 2007 considering how much they dominated the sport from the mid 90's until then but its understandable the rest of the country had already caught up to them.
 
www.detroitnews.com

'Disrespect': Michigan softball won't host NCAA Regional, will head to Seattle

The 18th-ranked Wolverines (36-6) will face\u00a0Seattle University in the\u00a0double-elimination regional at 8 p.m. Friday on ESPN2.
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From Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins: "(The NCAA selection committee) absolutely did not do a very good job," Hutchins, in her 37th season as Michigan head coach, said Sunday night. "They disrespected our entire conference and you know what, they have to give credence to all different areas of the country. Clearly there’s a little bias with at least one conference in particular. I would say the NCAA committee, I’m not very pleased with at all.... Disrespect. No more comment. Don’t ask me about them."

It's sad that the top two teams from the Big 10 (Michigan and Minnesota) are matched up with the top two teams from the Pac 12 (Washington and UCLA) in the regionals. It's unfair to both conferences.
 
The B1G screwed themselves by playing a conference only schedule this year. The Committee did not have any basis for comparing them to other schools, and there were a lot of questionable losses within the conference across the board this season.

I do think that what happened to Washington is ... hard to explain. Their RPI was at 16, so the Committee did put them right where they fell on that metric, but it did not do that with other schools, notably Oklahoma (#4 RPI - the Sooners are great, but their OOC was Marshmallow City).
 
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dws3665 said:
The B1G screwed themselves by playing a conference only schedule this year. The Committee did not have any basis for comparing them to other schools, and there were a lot of questionable losses within the conference across the board this season.

I do think that what happened to Washington is ... hard to explain. Their RPI was at 16, so the Committee did put them right where they fell on that metric, but it did not do that with other schools, notably Oklahoma (#4 RPI - the Sooners are great, but their OOC was Marshmallow City).
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Re: B1G. Let me put it differently. The committee just decided to punt on the B1G. They basically said, “We can’t evaluate the strength of your best teams, so they aren’t going to the WCWS unless they can beat the #1 or #2 team on the road. And we will make your third-best team compete as an at-large 4-seed. And, since we really don’t want ANY of your teams to even make a super this year (self-fulfilling prophecy that the B1G has no quality teams) we’ll just make your champion beat the best pitcher in college softball twice on the road just to have a chance to face Oklahoma. But we will reward mid-level SEC teams with a much easier path to Oklahoma City even though those teams have proven in conference play that they are not among the elite."
 
:eek: Uh oh. It's early, but Pac 12 falling on it's face so far in Regionals. Stanford losing isn't a big deal but Arizona St. was not supposed to lose to VA Tech. They are hosting.
 
Yikes, and Oregon lost to Texas St. Might not even get their showdown w/ their former coach at Texas.

Arizona St. did win yesterday, but is trailing BYU in a loser out game. I believe they would have to win 3 games in a row now to advance out of their Regional.

My Pac is sucking today. Arizona is comfortably ahead though, UW just starting, UCLA coming up in a little bit.
 
Holy crap, all eyes tune in to Tempe. A real scorcher going on. Total back and forth game.
 
As much as I love a pitchers' duel, it doesn't get any more exciting than that BYU/ASU game! Wow.
 
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Pac 12 was pretty pathetic yesterday. ASU eliminated, 2 other lost their first game, UW still can't hit worth a darn. At least Arizona and UCLA didn't look shaky.
 
Have to cut ASU some slack since their ace pitcher was injured. And at least Oregon was getting runners on base and getting hits -- just couldn't get enough to bring more runs. And you can't read too much into Stanford's loss IMO. They aren't ranked for a reason... Anyway, I still haven't seen anything to challenge my opinion that the SEC got too many seeds and the Pac-12 and Big-10 (well, essentially Washington and Michigan) were shortchanged. For example, Florida barely won last night, Kentucky is getting trounced today, JMU currently has Tennessee on the ropes, and seeded Duke having to play at George is just not fair.
 
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Clemson keeping it close against 'Bama too.

Yeah, definitely the SEC got way too many seeded teams.

Kinda looking like the ACC was underrated.
 
Most of the SEC has pretty suspect offenses but there are some good pitchers

Only team SEC team I truly think can play with the big dogs would be Alabama because of Fouts and some of their hitters.
 
Alabama blew it wide open late. It was 2-0 most of the game, ended up 6-0.
 
Odicci Alexander (pitcher for JMU) is an absolute joy to watch! Tennessee falls to the losers bracket and will play in the elimination game tonight.

Hemphill and Fouts are consistently stellar for Alabama. Hemphill with 2 hits, 2 walks, and 4 RBIs on 4 at bats. Fouts with 16 strikeouts. I actually think Alabama is the one SEC team that deserved a better draw from the committee. There #3 seed was appropriate, but they deserved to be rewarded with an easier regional match-up than Clemson IMO. At any rate, Alabama delivered.
 
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