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Get ready for tomorrow - Viking_Guy - 11-22-2014

So tomorrow is going to be a very interesting day of Stanford sports watching.

At 1 pm, Stanford takes on Washington in the round of 16 of the NCAA women's soccer tournament.  It's on Pac-12 Bay Area - the listing is for women's college soccer, and UCLA doesn't play until 3 pm.

Which also makes sense because at 5 pm Stanford men's soccer takes on UC Irvine in the second round of the men's tourney on Pac-12 Bay Area.  This game is going to be tough - the Anteaters ARE NOT the caliber of team Stanford should be taking on in the second round, even if you accept the Cardinal's 6 seed.  UCI is ranked #16 in the RPI, and should be playing a team like, I don't know, #17 C.al.  Instead, the 16 seed Bares get to play #121 Southern Illinois Evansville, who beat #119 Florida Gulf Coast.  UC Irvine, by the way, beat #60 UNLV in the opening round.

So both teams that could've played at C.al are substantially weaker than BOTH teams that could've played at the much higher-seeded Cardinal. Now given that the RPI is an imperfect tool, but it seems to be a tool the NCAA uses.  And how does the "travel cost" argument enter in here?  Is it more expensive to fly from Evansville to Stanford than it is to go to Berkeley?  Or substantially less expensive to go from Irvine to Stanford than to Berkeley?

Actually, I just checked Google Maps.  From UC Berkeley to UC Irvine is 415 miles.  From UC Irvine to Stanford?  400.  I wonder if the NCAA limit on bus travel of 400 miles swayed their bracketing decision a bit and is applied that strictly, and if the UCI-Stanford distance got jiggered to be under the limit.

In any case, hope Jordan Morris has gotten acclimated and adjusted.  And they have to win the games in front of them.

Whatever the case, there's now a third game - the MPSF water polo tourney final is perfectly timed, at 3:00 pm.  The webstream isn't great, although they at least got an onscreen score indicator working today.  Hopefully we'll actually get sound tomorrow.

Go Cardinal!

VG

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Re: Get ready for tomorrow - washingtonismoney - 11-22-2014

Also in men's soccer news, Brandon Vincent won Pac-12 defender of the year, while Jeremy Gunn won coach of the year.

Morris (and Vincent, obvs) was first team all-conference.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/11/21/pac-12-soccer-honors-for-stanfords-vincent-coach-gunn

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