[cardfan1996]

NCAA Women's Bracketology - 2023 women's college basketball projections (espn.com)
Stanford retains no.1 seed after loss per Creme

That is strange. Stanford and Maryland have each lost 5, whereas LSU has lost 1, Utah 4, and VaTech 4. I wouldn't be surprised to see Stanford with a #2 seed and LSU with a #1 seed when the official brackets are posted. But I can see why Creme may have done what he did: Stanford obviously played SC much tougher than LSU did.

If the committee cared about out of conference strength of schedule, Utah would not have appeared on that one line. Their out of conference schedule was cupcake city with only Oklahoma as a ranked opponent. In-conference, they beat their share of ranked opponents so that must carry some weight.

If Utah’s out of conf is a joke, LSU’s out of conf schedule was the whole circus. I know they didn’t play a tourney team and in conference they only beat Arkansas, when Arkansas was ranked. Arkansas is on the bubble and I think Oregon’s out of conference strength of schedule would put them in before Arkansas. LSU wasn’t competitive with S.Carolina the first time around. UCLA and Stanford were within single digits. So the committee must be going by the “eye test” with LSU and they’ve looked better in the last several weeks and will likely play S.Carolina in the SEC championship game. If they are competitive, maybe they rise above the 2 line but it’s not rational to award two SEC teams #1 seeds and the conference is down this year relative to the Big10 and ACC and PAC-12.

[cardfan1996]

NCAA Women's Bracketology - 2023 women's college basketball projections (espn.com)
Stanford retains no.1 seed after loss per Creme

That is strange. Stanford and Maryland have each lost 5, whereas LSU has lost 1, Utah 4, and VaTech 4. I wouldn't be surprised to see Stanford with a #2 seed and LSU with a #1 seed when the official brackets are posted. But I can see why Creme may have done what he did: Stanford obviously played SC much tougher than LSU did.

If the committee cared about out of conference strength of schedule, Utah would not have appeared on that one line. Their out of conference schedule was cupcake city with only Oklahoma as a ranked opponent. In-conference, they beat their share of ranked opponents so that must carry some weight.

If Utah’s out of conf is a joke, LSU’s out of conf schedule was the whole circus. I know they didn’t play a tourney team and in conference they only beat Arkansas, when Arkansas was ranked. Arkansas is on the bubble and I think Oregon’s out of conference strength of schedule would put them in before Arkansas. LSU wasn’t competitive with S.Carolina the first time around. UCLA and Stanford were within single digits. So the committee must be going by the “eye test” with LSU and they’ve looked better in the last several weeks and will likely play S.Carolina in the SEC championship game. If they are competitive, maybe they rise above the 2 line but it’s not rational to award two SEC teams #1 seeds and the conference is down this year relative to the Big10 and ACC and PAC-12.