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Looks like no NCAA tourney for WBB either

Frog45

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Someone at ESPN dropped the ball and posted the brackets on accident early. ESPN has full on panicked and is moving up the show to start at 4 p.m. central (It was supposed to start at 6 p.m.)

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Eight

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Someone at ESPN dropped the ball and posted the brackets on accident early. ESPN has full on panicked and is moving up the show to start at 4 p.m. central (It was supposed to start at 6 p.m.)

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there really wasn't much mystery to this after the selection committee and named the 8 schools effectively on the bubble.
 

Purp

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Have I just not paid close enough attention or has the women's tournament always been 64 teams? I could have sworn it was a 32 team field.
 

Wexahu

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Have I just not paid close enough attention or has the women's tournament always been 64 teams? I could have sworn it was a 32 team field.

Yes, and in most years the final four is almost pre-determined. Not near enough parity in the women's game to make anything but the Final Four (and occasionally the Elite Eight) remotely interesting for all but the most dedicated fans.
 

Eight

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NCAA Committees love us.

article earlier summed it up pretty much the same as the guys.

weak non-conference schedule with no top 100 wins and only 3 quality wins were in conference.

when you compare that to the other schools who had quality wins out of conference it makes the difference
 

LVH

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TCU tradition across our big sports - schedule nobody in OOC play.

The problem with the women's team non conference scheduling approach is that the Big 12 is no where near as strong in women's basketball than men's. So the strategy of "hope to make up for quality wins in conference play" doesn't really apply. You have Baylor, which no one is going to beat, and then some medicore teams and some bad ones. It's not deep like the men's side.
 

jake102

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Baseball hasn’t been shy in scheduling OOC

Grand Canyon, Long Beach State and Eastern Michigan for a total of 9 games seems a bit much. It's like we are either playing nobodies, or we are playing some super elite tournament with the best teams. Balances out to good enough.

Eh just looked it up and our SOS is 134
 

Pharm Frog

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Grand Canyon, Long Beach State and Eastern Michigan for a total of 9 games seems a bit much. It's like we are either playing nobodies, or we are playing some super elite tournament with the best teams. Balances out to good enough.

Eh just looked it up and our SOS is 134

When we scheduled LBSU, they were pretty damn solid and made the playoffs in 14, 16, and 17. We’ve played in the Dodgertown Classic and we’ve recently played ASU. As for GCU, they’ve won the WAC regular season championship three out of the last four years. They aren’t patsies. We play DBU a couple of times each year and we had the top projected team from the Southland on our schedule.
 

Moose Stuff

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When we scheduled LBSU, they were pretty damn solid and made the playoffs in 14, 16, and 17. We’ve played in the Dodgertown Classic and we’ve recently played ASU. As for GCU, they’ve won the WAC regular season championship three out of the last four years. They aren’t patsies. We play DBU a couple of times each year and we had the top projected team from the Southland on our schedule.

Yeah, baseball scheduling is the least of our worries.
 

Pharm Frog

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Well there is EMU.

Pharm Frog said:
Bring on another RPI crushing win, please! About to see Mama Mia at the Granbury Opera House.

And there will be Seton Hall coming up mid-conference. And there was Murray State recently in the same situation. Thank you ISU...at least we won't beat you in every major men's sport this year. You can't schedule all Top 25 teams (but LBSU sure made a run at it). Our baseball OOC scheduling is about as solid as it can be and this is starting to include the home v road v neutral ratio as well. Reasoning by exception proves the rule.
 

PurpleBlood87

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And there will be Seton Hall coming up mid-conference. And there was Murray State recently in the same situation. Thank you ISU...at least we won't beat you in every major men's sport this year. You can't schedule all Top 25 teams (but LBSU sure made a run at it). Our baseball OOC scheduling is about as solid as it can be and this is starting to include the home v road v neutral ratio as well. Reasoning by exception proves the rule.

I was just funning with you because of your RPI crushing comments. Teams up north have to go somewhere to play.
 
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