We should be higher than 12, but we'll see soon enough. Hopefully top 8.The guy at Volleytalk who does a bracketology every year has us as the 12th overall seed, playing Eastern Michigan in the first round and the Michigan - Yale winner in the second.
If we get past the first weekend we would go to Provo to play (if the seeds hold) Texas, with BYU and Oregon the other seeded team in that region.
We should be higher than 12, but we'll see soon enough. Hopefully top 8.
Seems like a rough draw. I'd have preferred that BYU matchup given their recent injury issue. One could argue Texas was better than BYU even before that.
Don't know much about UM but that seems like a pretty tough R2 matchup as well.
Let's see how Pitt handles the scheduling given this weekend's other activities.
hopefully Pitt's times can be coordinated with the other games going on for us.
IF they seeded by RPI, we would have been 6th though.It seems the argument was whether BYU should be the 4 and Texas the 5 or Texas the 4 and BYU the 5.
Given where we got seeded Michigan is actually a reasonable second round game. Their RPI ended up 22, which would mean that if they seeded exactly by RPI (and obviously they don't) the team seeded 12 should play the 21st seeded team, so Michigan is in the ballpark.
The other thing that you have to consider is that it is actually a part of the seeding process for volleyball (and several other "minor" sports) that they try to make teams travel less than 400 miles for the first two rounds, because if teams travel less than 400 miles they can bus rather than fly and it saves the schools and the NCAA money. Besides Michigan a few other schools that are within 400 miles and would have RPI's in the correct range would have been Purdue, Cincinnati and Dayton. There really weren't a whole lot of choices.
Tough weekend. I would have loved to have gone, but I'll be in Charlotte too. They are competing against Pitt bball on Friday night and Pitt vs Clemson on Sat night.According to the bracket on the NCAA web site Pitt's Friday game is listed as a 7:00 game, as is the potential game on Saturday. I don't know if those are definite start times or just place holders, because all the game on Saturday have similar start times and you'd think they'd want to spread them out.
IF they seeded by RPI, we would have been 6th though.
Overall, not too big of a deal. I was hoping for top 8 so they would maybe have a 3rd round game at home. Now, they likely have to go to Texas.