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Post by ay2013 on Sept 23, 2019 16:40:07 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound off but I'm kind of hoping that UCLA and Oregon don't find their form and just take the licks in conference. Futures already puts them ineligible for the tournament. Colorado and Utah both have a SOS to be a seed if they don't take too many conference losses and join Stanford and Washington (maybe Cal, though jury is still out on them and their non conference SOS is much weaker) as sub regional hosts.
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Post by VolleyballFella on Sept 23, 2019 16:54:21 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound off but I'm kind of hoping that UCLA and Oregon don't find their form and just take the licks in conference. Futures already puts them ineligible for the tournament. Colorado and Utah both have a SOS to be a seed if they don't take too many conference losses and join Stanford and Washington (maybe Cal, though jury is still out on them and their non conference SOS is much weaker) as sub regional hosts. Since CSU is a likely seed and sub host, would the committee bump CU out as a host if they were in the top 16...but a bubble seed team and make CU travel to Fort Collins (like they have many years before in the NCAA tourney)?
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Post by VolleyballFella on Sept 23, 2019 16:56:16 GMT -5
Before it's tainted with conference matches...here is where the two top conferences finished in non-conference play. PAC wins each major category.
Go PAC!
(RPI rating, Record, Record percentage)
PAC: 0.6291, 91-32, 0.740
B1G: 0.6267, 100-43, 0.699
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2019 18:22:01 GMT -5
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Post by volleyball303 on Sept 23, 2019 18:27:57 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound off but I'm kind of hoping that UCLA and Oregon don't find their form and just take the licks in conference. Futures already puts them ineligible for the tournament. Colorado and Utah both have a SOS to be a seed if they don't take too many conference losses and join Stanford and Washington (maybe Cal, though jury is still out on them and their non conference SOS is much weaker) as sub regional hosts. I think Oregon gets it together and makes it into the tournament. Only playing the mountains once will help them. UCLA will probably not be eligible for the second year in a row. Only playing the Arizona schools once hurts them.
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Post by vbfamily on Sept 23, 2019 20:23:42 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound off but I'm kind of hoping that UCLA and Oregon don't find their form and just take the licks in conference. Futures already puts them ineligible for the tournament. Colorado and Utah both have a SOS to be a seed if they don't take too many conference losses and join Stanford and Washington (maybe Cal, though jury is still out on them and their non conference SOS is much weaker) as sub regional hosts. Booo! Why don't we try to get as many teams in the tourney rather than focus on the number of seeds? We have seen in past seasons PAC teams beat the home teams in the tourney.
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Post by ay2013 on Sept 23, 2019 20:26:26 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound off but I'm kind of hoping that UCLA and Oregon don't find their form and just take the licks in conference. Futures already puts them ineligible for the tournament. Colorado and Utah both have a SOS to be a seed if they don't take too many conference losses and join Stanford and Washington (maybe Cal, though jury is still out on them and their non conference SOS is much weaker) as sub regional hosts. Booo! Why don't we try to get as many teams in the tourney rather than focus on the number of seeds? We have seen in past seasons PAC teams beat the home teams in the tourney. Perhaps with this year being so many more "non traditional" seeded teams, there will be easier paths to the sweet 16. I recall unseeded Pac-12 teams frequently being sent to the higher seeded Big 10 teams and Texas when they don't draw enough in state teams.
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Post by vbfamily on Sept 23, 2019 20:40:00 GMT -5
Booo! Why don't we try to get as many teams in the tourney rather than focus on the number of seeds? We have seen in past seasons PAC teams beat the home teams in the tourney. Perhaps with this year being so many more "non traditional" seeded teams, there will be easier paths to the sweet 16. I recall unseeded Pac-12 teams frequently being sent to the higher seeded Big 10 teams and Texas when they don't draw enough in state teams. I think the conference season will prepare teams making it out! I imagine one or more will be sent to the state of Texas...
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Post by bigfan on Sept 24, 2019 11:08:22 GMT -5
Perhaps with this year being so many more "non traditional" seeded teams, there will be easier paths to the sweet 16. I recall unseeded Pac-12 teams frequently being sent to the higher seeded Big 10 teams and Texas when they don't draw enough in state teams. I think the conference season will prepare teams making it out! I imagine one or more will be sent to the state of Texas... Oregon has great talent, they just need to get it together. They are a good team
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Post by 900sqftdad on Sept 24, 2019 11:59:17 GMT -5
Three of their loses are to extremely good teams, but loses to Duke, St Johns and almost to Princeton are head scratchers. They haven’t beat anyone decent. Can’t believe they are still receiving votes. Everyone knows they have talent but something is definitely not right. I think the conference season will prepare teams making it out! I imagine one or more will be sent to the state of Texas... Oregon has great talent, they just need to get it together. They are a good team
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Post by azvolleydad on Sept 24, 2019 12:19:42 GMT -5
I know this is going to sound off but I'm kind of hoping that UCLA and Oregon don't find their form and just take the licks in conference. Futures already puts them ineligible for the tournament. Colorado and Utah both have a SOS to be a seed if they don't take too many conference losses and join Stanford and Washington (maybe Cal, though jury is still out on them and their non conference SOS is much weaker) as sub regional hosts. Sorry to rain on your parade, but if Johnson is healthy, Oregon will be just fine. If Johnson and Borup are both healthy, watch out. If neither return, your hope may be bourne out.
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Post by uncommitted on Sept 24, 2019 12:22:26 GMT -5
Three of their loses are to extremely good teams, but loses to Duke, St Johns and almost to Princeton are head scratchers. They haven’t beat anyone decent. Can’t believe they are still receiving votes. Everyone knows they have talent but something is definitely not right. Oregon has great talent, they just need to get it together. They are a good team Of course something is not right, two of their best offensive weapons and upperclassmen are on the bench with injuries. If even just Willow makes it back this week should make a huge difference. Unless these losses are getting in the freshmen’s head.....
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Post by oldunc on Sept 24, 2019 12:24:31 GMT -5
I think Oregon will be OK- they're depending a lot on some Freshmen who've been erratic so far, but will probably be solid as things go on, and they've had some major injuries to Borup and Johnson. They're thin on the left side anyway, with VonSickle transferring and Nuneviller new to the position.
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Post by 900sqftdad on Sept 24, 2019 12:31:20 GMT -5
RPI and rankings shouldn’t consider injuries, you should have to earn those. But the injury situation does explain some of the head scratching...
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Post by volleyball303 on Sept 24, 2019 12:40:43 GMT -5
I think Oregon will be OK- they're depending a lot on some Freshmen who've been erratic so far, but will probably be solid as things go on, and they've had some major injuries to Borup and Johnson. They're thin on the left side anyway, with VonSickle transferring and Nuneviller new to the position. I think the Rasmussen transfer is hurting the outside depth more than Van Sickle.
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