Does this more or less mean that the highest seeded team will host?
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It always, to my knowledge, has. Stanford's women should not play another away match until the College Cup - which is 20 miles away.
I worry a little that the committee will give UNC the #1 seed on the strength of its victory over UVa. They were #2 in RPI just behind us and just ahead of UVa. And the RPI will surely like their win over #3 UVa more than our (more impresssive - but does w soccer RPI count margin?) win over #31 Cal. The #1 v. #2 seed matters little, it seems to me ... the difference between the #7 and #8 seed in the quarters (if one gets that far). And the seeding is arbitrary enough that it's hard to know if that would make a difference.
Looked to me as though we started focusing on protecting the lead at about 60 minutes, which seemed way too soon. Happy that it worked out. It makes the Big Game that much bigger!
Tough match but unlike their first meeting at Cagan, UW didn't look like the significantly better team today. I'm not sure why. They did control the ball better than we did, but part of my sense of that may be the last 30 minutes. In the first match, we seemed to be hanging on for dear life all game. This one was, I thought, quite even. We had 10 shots, 3 on goal; they had 12, 5 on goal. Both teams had 3 corners. We had 15 fouls to their 9 - I can't complain much about the center ref, but to a fan's eyes, the calls didn't seem even. (Which means they probably were.)
BTW, in NCAA can a disciplinary committee during the week review video and assess sanctions for bad but uncalled offenses? Ousseni's foot was the victim of what sure looked like a blatant stomp - a red card kind of stomp. (Logan got a straight red for something that looked a lot less serious than that.) I know MLS does it; don't know about NCAA, or, I suppose, Pac 12. But that looked ugly.
Good win, though.
Go Card! Beat Cal!!
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It always, to my knowledge, has. Stanford's women should not play another away match until the College Cup - which is 20 miles away.
I worry a little that the committee will give UNC the #1 seed on the strength of its victory over UVa. They were #2 in RPI just behind us and just ahead of UVa. And the RPI will surely like their win over #3 UVa more than our (more impresssive - but does w soccer RPI count margin?) win over #31 Cal. The #1 v. #2 seed matters little, it seems to me ... the difference between the #7 and #8 seed in the quarters (if one gets that far). And the seeding is arbitrary enough that it's hard to know if that would make a difference.
Looked to me as though we started focusing on protecting the lead at about 60 minutes, which seemed way too soon. Happy that it worked out. It makes the Big Game that much bigger!
Tough match but unlike their first meeting at Cagan, UW didn't look like the significantly better team today. I'm not sure why. They did control the ball better than we did, but part of my sense of that may be the last 30 minutes. In the first match, we seemed to be hanging on for dear life all game. This one was, I thought, quite even. We had 10 shots, 3 on goal; they had 12, 5 on goal. Both teams had 3 corners. We had 15 fouls to their 9 - I can't complain much about the center ref, but to a fan's eyes, the calls didn't seem even. (Which means they probably were.)
BTW, in NCAA can a disciplinary committee during the week review video and assess sanctions for bad but uncalled offenses? Ousseni's foot was the victim of what sure looked like a blatant stomp - a red card kind of stomp. (Logan got a straight red for something that looked a lot less serious than that.) I know MLS does it; don't know about NCAA, or, I suppose, Pac 12. But that looked ugly.
Good win, though.
Go Card! Beat Cal!!