Cal's turn to play Santa Clara in the tournament this year -- Yay!
USC and UCLA both beat 1-seed FSU at home, but their losses (other than to us) must have sunk them to 2-seeds: FSU's other losses were to #1 seeds UNC and Virginia (twice). USC and UCLA both seem much stronger 2-seeds than the other two, so glad we're not potentially playing them until the College Cup. South Carolina looks weaker to me than BYU: their best wins were Arkansas twice and Notre Dame, and lost to Clemson--just didn't play anyone else really good in preseason and SEC is not impressive this year. And BYU has that home 5-1 victory over Pepperdine!! But can't complain too much about this, it will be good to finish their season off with a loss.
Penn State seems like an unreasonably good 4-seed, probably should have been a 3. And it's an advantage to them that they already played us once. But we've gotten a lot better since then. Oh well, just gotta win.
USC and UCLA both beat 1-seed FSU at home, but their losses (other than to us) must have sunk them to 2-seeds: FSU's other losses were to #1 seeds UNC and Virginia (twice). USC and UCLA both seem much stronger 2-seeds than the other two, so glad we're not potentially playing them until the College Cup. South Carolina looks weaker to me than BYU: their best wins were Arkansas twice and Notre Dame, and lost to Clemson--just didn't play anyone else really good in preseason and SEC is not impressive this year. And BYU has that home 5-1 victory over Pepperdine!! But can't complain too much about this, it will be good to finish their season off with a loss.
Penn State seems like an unreasonably good 4-seed, probably should have been a 3. And it's an advantage to them that they already played us once. But we've gotten a lot better since then. Oh well, just gotta win.