Michigan
Colorado State
Chapman
BYU
BYU
Minn-Duluth
Arizona State
Michigan State
Oregon
Oregon
Simon Fraser
Florida State
Florida State
Boston College
Cal Poly
Colorado
Texas
Illinois
Man is this getting fun. These teams and seeds are again on body of work with teams such as Virginia Tech dropping in seeding because that really have not done much this year in terms of strength of schedule or quality wins, and Simon Fraser moving up to the 9 seed, where after they get another win in the PNCLL semis their ultimate seed will be determined based on who wins the PNCLL finals and by how much.
I still think Illinois and Texas have the best shot to win their league AQs. Illinois is a big physical athletic team, as is Texas and thus beyond them winning their AQs I think they make their first round math-ups compelling. Also, I have put Virginia Tech in and UCSB out. VTech has not done much to deserve the birth, but they are 9th in the poll and outside the West Coast they have some allegiance. Also, if UCSB were to go, that would be 3 teams from the SLC, a 12 team conference, and one team, Florida State from a 22 team conference. This would also mean 4 teams from the old WCLL, 6 teams from the West Coast, and 9 teams from West of the Rockies. I realize that I am giving the committee far too much credit for wanting to create a fair, equitable and balanced tournament, but so be it.
There are also some compelling math-ups in the first round, and even if the committee moves seeds around to keep from having division rivals play in first round, committee please be careful because you screwed around with the seeds last year and wound up having an amazing semi-final match-up take place in the quarters, Simon Fraser - Chapman, because of your mis-seeding of Colorado. I would just be excited to see an up and coming Illinois team play Michigan in a first round Big Ten match-up.
Whatever the final seeds, this years tournament looks to be extremely competitive from the first whistle with some truly big name schools, and some great athletes going at each other.
Thank you again for getting this far with me.
Man is this getting fun. These teams and seeds are again on body of work with teams such as Virginia Tech dropping in seeding because that really have not done much this year in terms of strength of schedule or quality wins, and Simon Fraser moving up to the 9 seed, where after they get another win in the PNCLL semis their ultimate seed will be determined based on who wins the PNCLL finals and by how much.
I still think Illinois and Texas have the best shot to win their league AQs. Illinois is a big physical athletic team, as is Texas and thus beyond them winning their AQs I think they make their first round math-ups compelling. Also, I have put Virginia Tech in and UCSB out. VTech has not done much to deserve the birth, but they are 9th in the poll and outside the West Coast they have some allegiance. Also, if UCSB were to go, that would be 3 teams from the SLC, a 12 team conference, and one team, Florida State from a 22 team conference. This would also mean 4 teams from the old WCLL, 6 teams from the West Coast, and 9 teams from West of the Rockies. I realize that I am giving the committee far too much credit for wanting to create a fair, equitable and balanced tournament, but so be it.
There are also some compelling math-ups in the first round, and even if the committee moves seeds around to keep from having division rivals play in first round, committee please be careful because you screwed around with the seeds last year and wound up having an amazing semi-final match-up take place in the quarters, Simon Fraser - Chapman, because of your mis-seeding of Colorado. I would just be excited to see an up and coming Illinois team play Michigan in a first round Big Ten match-up.
Whatever the final seeds, this years tournament looks to be extremely competitive from the first whistle with some truly big name schools, and some great athletes going at each other.
Thank you again for getting this far with me.
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