Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Automatic qualifying great for field of 64 in basketball. Not very good for field of 29 in women’s lax. Most of fridays games were not close to competitive. Need to re think this in future. It isn’t growing the game.

Yeah, but I do not see it changing. There were a handful of good competitive games, hopefully the majority of second round games will be competitive. Denver and Stanford both looked good, not sure how Denver will do vs NU. The only two upsets I see for second round are Rutgers over SBU and possibly Maryland over Duke. Don’t think Loyola is strong enough to beat SU. JMU has come on strong so who knows? Anything is possible. Florida not going to let it happen again. I think ND handles UVA. BC should be fine.

Miss on the Rutgers upset watch... Maryland almost pulled it off. All in all games went as expected. Stony Brook looked good too bad JMU had to play UNC... they might have advanced, they have been getting better all year, looked good vs UNC.

UNC and JMU both were dealt a bad hand having to play each other in the second round. Levy said as much in her post game comments. It did not have to be that way even when factoring in geography for unseeded teams, but the committee seemed to deliberately spare ACC teams from facing UNC before the final four. Now UNC gets SBU which should have been seeded over Duke. Watch out, though, UNC will be battle tested if they make it to championship game. Based on first two rounds: UNC, BC and SU are deserving of top four seeding. Big ten had some good but not great teams other than NU. A little surprised Rutgers was not more competitive with SBU which I think points to SBU deserving 5-7 seeding. It's too bad their conference schedule is never strong, and they don't get the benefit of the doubt like some other programs do.