UCLA Women Gain 3 seed in the West
Here is a look at all of the seeding for the NCAA tournament. UCLA got what many think is a tough draw with a potential 2nd round game at hosting Gonzaga and a tough 2 seed in the sweet 16 against Xavier. I'll break down the bracket and give my thoughts on UCLA's chances later in the week
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I really dislike that. ._.
Ranked 7, and with only 4 losses (3 to Stanford), and a 3 seed.
Eh. Just play the way they can, and it won’t matter.
They say it's not all RPI...
though at least in the men’s seeding it seems to be. So, the seeds for the women and the teams’ RPI:
1-seeds
UConn 1
Tennessee 2
Baylor 4
Stanford 5
2-seeds
Duke 3
Texas A&M 6
Xavier 9
Notre Dame 11
3-seeds
UCLA 8
DePaul 10
Miami 12
Florida State 15
Hope Nikki can use this to fire up the team even more – especially as we’re in the same region as Stanford. That’s pretty messed up. Bracket here – I could only find a blank one on BSPN at the moment.
Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.
Maybe 'screwed' is an exaggeration this year (it wasn't last year)
But the committee was unkind to UCLA again. Gotta think they deserved a 2, and sending the Bruins across the same region of Stanford is just baffling to me. And giving them a lower seed than a Notre Dame team that they beat on the road and with a lower RPI?
I say it every year, but I’m tired of the selection committee’s bias against every west coast team other than Stanford.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
I can't understand why they put us in the same region as Stanford.
This makes no sense. How about seeing how we do against another #1…Baylor? This is just wrong.
Go Bruins!
Go Bruins!
they did the same to Texas A&M
Same conference as Baylor, played them three times, lost three times, and they’re seeded #2 in Baylor’s region.
The women’s committee likes to minimize travel, but putting the best two teams in a conference in the same region is idiotic. (As is forcing a high seed to play “on the road” at a lower-seeded team.)
Protecting the higher seeds wouldn't even be hard.
Given that there isn’t much difference between seed lines—a 6 is pretty similar to a 7, 11 to 12 and 14 to 15—it would make sense to assign pod locations based on the proximity to the top team in it (the 1-4 seed), then bump the home team lower seed up or down a rung. Doing that this year would be relatively simple. Letting the top 4 seeds take spots at their home floor first (eg, let Maryland take the College Park pod, even though a 2 or 3 would have first dibs), you’d only need three seed switches from what the committee actually produced.
Move Notre Dame to play at Penn State, and bump Penn State from a 6 to a 7.
Move UCLA to Salt Lake, and bump Utah from a 15 to a 14.
Move DePaul to Wichita.
Move Michigan State to Spokane and bump Gonzaga from an 11 to a 12.
Apparently
The Womens and mens selection rules are different. Teams are placed in the region closest to them. There is no S-curve. That said we could’ve still been a 2 and Xavier the 3 but that would’ve just moved Gonzaga up to a 10 seed and we would still possibly face them in the 2nd round.
by lil eg not cs on Mar 15, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Flabbergasted
I agree that its kind of ridiculous for us to be in the same bracket vs. Stanford AGAIN, after 3 games during the season and Pac-10 tourney. Not only that, but it seems kind of ludicrous that 11 seed Gonzaga basically gets to play at home until the Final Four! Not understanding any ‘logic’ there…
wow
I had to see it to believe it. ND got a 2 seed over us? Really? The Gonzaga second round game is troublesome and obviously the Stanford matchup looming brings a little but of the fun out of it. I also wanted to see us possibly go up against another one seed to see what it would be like. Well let’s take it one game at a Time. Maybe Kentucky can Knock off the tree’s. Go ladies!
DGB
by westwood12003 on Mar 15, 2011 2:11 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
DG isn't on the women's selection committee
Even so, women’s basketball is much more top-heavy than men’s in terms of team strength. We shouldn’t worry about potentially playing 11-seeded Gonzaga in Spokane when the Zags likely won’t get out of the first round. Secondly, we got to stay in the West, which I look at as a gift. Third, after last week’s game we know we can beat Stanford on of these days, whereas Baylor, UConn and Tennessee are really tall orders. All things considered, we should embrace Spokane because we’re going to be there for awhile. I’m looking forward to a fourth shot at Furd for the Final Four.
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