Oregon SB gets 2-seed in Austin Regional

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Oregon SB gets 2-seed in Austin Regional

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Oregon SB got absolutely hosed by the NCAA Tournament selection as they got stuck in the Austin Regional as a 2-seed and #21 overall team rather than as a host in Eugene. Oregon finished in the top-16 in RPI and SOS. Teams that finished below Oregon in the conference standings, ASU and Arizona, both got to host. As a whole, Pac-12 got screwed as UW, which has been a top-10 all season, got put at the 16th overall seed, behind ASU and Arizona.
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What a joke. How can you screw up that badly?
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did they say why UW got hosed so bad when they were a top ten team all year?
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And of course they are in love with the SE conference. Like usual the PAC will send 3-4 teams to WCWS and UCLA will totally dominate. No way they are not far the best team in NCAA.
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StevensTechU wrote:What a joke. How can you screw up that badly?
Rhetorical question. But thanks to Larry Scotts' genius marketing plans and decision making, we're (Pac-12) a second thought in college sports in all matters...
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nogerO wrote:
StevensTechU wrote:What a joke. How can you screw up that badly?
Rhetorical question. But thanks to Larry Scotts' genius marketing plans and decision making, we're (Pac-12) a second thought in college sports in all matters...
Agreed, the Pac-12 and west coast as a whole is an afterthought in sports. I'm not surprised by this at all and expect it to continue to happen unless Kliavkoff can fix what Scott ruined.
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While UW got screwed the most in the raw seeding, they still got a regional. Oregon though not as screwed by as many spots as UW got the worse result by being under-seeded out of a regional.

While UCLA lost a couple more games then Oklahoma very few people who follow SB have the Okies ahead of them. Apparently though, those very few are all on the seeding committee.
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All valid points...

But the simpler explanation may be this Southern Region weighting
http://web1.ncaa.org/committees/committ ... eName=1WSB

Too many advocates for the Southern region to balance the bids, 4 out of 7 designated regional reps are SE or South. BRUTAL.
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So Mike White thinks Oregon's seeding was bullshirt and was a political match-up to draw interest and audience. He things Texas was screwed to get what should have been a host team in their regional, and Oregon got screwed by not getting to host their own regional.
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