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Post by Gorf on Sept 11, 2007 13:42:05 GMT -5
Top 4 ranked teams heading into the 1999 tournament:
1. Penn State 2. Stanford 3. Hawaii 4. Florida
Other notable teams:
5. Pacific 6. Long Beach State 13. Texas A&M
TAMU over Hawaii was a big upset, LBSU over TAMU pretty much as expected, Stanford over LBSU was no real surprise.
PSU over Pacific nearly became a major upset. Penn State over Stanford was not unexpected other than the match being an easy sweep for the Lions. The closeness of the PSU / Pacific match could at least in part be exxplained by PSU focusing so much on Stanford that they overlooked Pacific to an extent and nearly paid the price for it.
The same sort of thing could be said about Hawaii focusing on LBSU and paid the price at least in part in taking TAMU at least in part for granted.
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