Women's Soccer 2016

Is the loss a "bad" loss?

to a top 25 team on the road? No.

Good game tonight in the first of our Hatchless games. BYU won 3-0 over Portland on goals by Vasconcelos, Gomes and Bizzie Bowen, two of which were ROCKETS from more than 30 feet out. Gomes' goal was AWESOME.

to my mind, women are ever better players than men are!

itsentony wrote:
to my mind, women are ever better players than men are!

I agree whole-heartedly. I can't stand watching the men. "Oh. I got kicked in the toenail. I'm injured! I'm going down on the ground for five minutes!" The women are tough.if they go down, it's because they're legitimately hurt.

We moved up to #6 in Coaches Poll but dropped to #5 in the RPI.

Did Hatch make the US team roster?

scott715 wrote:
Did Hatch make the US team roster?

Yes. She subbed in in garbage time tonight, but it appeared they had her playing Midfielder, which I thought was really weird considering she is a natural, and really outstanding, striker. She looked a little out of place at mid.

BYU Women's Soccer defeated San Diego tonight 2-1 on goals by Michelle Vasconcelos and Lizzy Brady. Braby's goal came fairly late in the match and thank goodness it did, because San Diego scored a goal off a BYU defensive mistake in the 88th...or 89th (not sure which)...minute. Ashley Hatch, our leading scorer, is still with the National Team as they play one more "friendly" against Switzerland in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday.

Ashley Hatch wasn't on the USWNT roster for today's "friendly".

So, I was just calculating the in-conference points after today's game results. For BYU to win a share of the conference title, Pepperdine has to lose to Loyola-Marymount...at Pepperdine. The only way BYU wins the outright title is for Pepperdine to also lose or tie at Pacific, which isn't going to happen, considering Pacific has a pathetic Overall record of 1-12-1. It's a longshot, even, that Pepperdine loses to LMU. It would be the first time since 2011 that BYU didn't win at least a share of the title. :~(

I thought we had a stacked team? What happened?

A 1-0 loss to Pepperdine.

SkystheLimit wrote:
So, I was just calculating the in-conference points after today's game results. For BYU to win a share of the conference title, Pepperdine has to lose to Loyola-Marymount...at Pepperdine. The only way BYU wins the outright title is for Pepperdine to also lose or tie at Pacific, which isn't going to happen, considering Pacific has a pathetic Overall record of 1-12-1. It's a longshot, even, that Pepperdine loses to LMU. It would be the first time since 2011 that BYU didn't win at least a share of the title. :~(

it's not an extreme longshot. LMU is a good team. Could happen.

scott715 wrote:
A 1-0 loss to Pepperdine.

Pepperdine is ranked #15 in the coaches poll, #29 in the rpi. They're good. Sucks that we lost to them, but it's not like they're terrible. Also, LMU #40 in the rpi isn't necessarily an easy win for Pepperdine.



BYU is still #4 in the rpi and #5 in the coaches poll this week.

The NCAA tournament is the important thing, and BYU is looking much better in their resume this year than they did last year. Here are the rpis of the teams BYU has played. Several nice wins. Losses are few and both to top 30 teams.



Losses:

Nebraska (19)

Pepperdine (29)



Wins:

Ohio State (22)

Utah (25)

Penn State (27)

SMU (35)

LMU (40)

San Diego (46)

Long Beach State (57)

Washington State (73)

Tennessee (86)

Portland (99)

Utah State (108)

San Francisco (163)

Denver (218)



Tie:

Santa Clara (41)

BlueK wrote:

A 1-0 loss to Pepperdine.

Pepperdine is ranked #15 in the coaches poll, #29 in the rpi. They're good. Sucks that we lost to them, but it's not like they're terrible. Also, LMU #40 in the rpi isn't necessarily an easy win for Pepperdine.



BYU is still #4 in the rpi and #5 in the coaches poll this week.

LMU is our only chance a team winning the conference, but the game isn't AT Pepperdine, which is a tough place to win. Our loss was at Pepperdine. Which, by the way, kind of irks me, because we had to play them at Pepperdine last year. It should have been at South Field. We likely would have won at South Field. It is what it is, but still...Pepperdine is a tough team and deserves the ranking they have. LMU is a tough team too, though. Played us tough. We only won the match 1-0.



By the way, Ashley Hatch is back with the team. Yay, Ashley!



Hopefully, our last three matches don't drop our RPI much. I'd really like to go into the NCAA Tournament a #1 or #2 seed.

And the loss to Pepperdine was on a penalty kick.

This is the only site I've seen that puts out a projection for NCAA tournament. It has BYU with a 4 seed. That would give us the first game at home and the second on a neutral field. I actually think BYU will get in on a 3, maybe a 2 if lucky. We do have several top 50 wins and our three best wins all came on the road.



http://herosports.com/news/d1-womens-soccer-2016-bracketology-bubble-watch-5

4 seed is a slap in the face. Getting 3 teams in with a couple just out shows it is a good league.