Women's Soccer 2016

I see what is happening. Stanford, USC and BYU are all out of the west. Stanford and USC are ahead of BYU, so BYU gets the 3-seed. :skeptic:

Regular season finale tonight v. Gonzaga. BYU won dominantly 6-0 on goals from Barker, Vasconcelos, Vasconcelos, Topham, Gomes and a great PK by Hatch (so glad she got a goal in her final game). Topham, a reserve defender got the first goal of her career. Vasconcelos' goals came less than a minute apart. With the exception of Gomes' goal, all the goals scored tonight were by seniors, and all non-keeper seniors, with the exception of Medeiros, who got an assist, got a goal.



We still have the post-season and I hope they go ALL THE WAY, but I will really miss watching these players play for BYU. Vasconcelos has been on the team almost since I started watching our soccer team and Hatch, Madeiros and Barker the year after Michelle started. It will be sad not to have Vasconcelos on the field (she is amazing!) I loved how good Boaz has been (it's disappointing she didn't get to start after her hand healed). And it was great to see Topham do so well the last several games in reserve.



Oh, by the way, this is BYU's 5th consecutive WCC Championship (shared with Pepperdine), a record in the WCC. I believe this is one of the best women's soccer teams BYU has ever had.



The NCAA Tournament selection show is Monday at 2:30 MST and will be on NCAA.com. Let's hope for a 1 or 2 seed. We will likely have an RPI of 8, 9 or 10 after this match, and Stanford and USC are ahead of us in the RPI, so we may end up being a 3-seed :sulk: but we can hope for a 1 or 2.



Go Cougs!

4 seed



https://twitter.com/Spencer_Linton/status/795743164048949248

hawkwing wrote:
4 seed

Wikileaks has released some footage of the seeding committee:



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Apparently neither RPI nor the polls mean anything. What a slap in the face to give us a 4 seed. Can you sue the NCAA for discrimination. BYU has an rpi/poll of 7/4. The other 4 seeds have rpi/poll of 16/18 13/11 and 22/8. Really Florida 8/15 a 1 seed?

Good one snow. Can you place that gif in the tweet to Jordan. I don't know how to do it.

What a bunch of garbage! Slap in the face is a nice way of saying it. So is "what a bunch of garbage!" But I can't say what I really feel. I hope they destroy every team they face and show how STUPID the NCAA selection committee is.

coachK wrote:
Apparently neither RPI nor the polls mean anything. What a slap in the face to give us a 4 seed. Can you sue the NCAA for discrimination. BYU has an rpi/poll of 7/4. The other 4 seeds have rpi/poll of 16/18 13/11 and 22/8. Really Florida 8/15 a 1 seed?

The rpi #7 was actually last week. BYU is #10 on the final one after the Gonzaga game. Their last three WCC games against lower ranked teams pulled them down a bit. But they're good enough to play through this.

Not surprised.

Mars wrote:
Not surprised.

yeah. Women's basketball and all the "olympic" sports are probably a lot more biased than mens basketball and football when it comes to ncaa selection committees. BYU womens soccer is really good. They will be able to play through this and advance pretty far if they play how they're capable of playing. SMU is in the next bracket -- a team we beat already this year, 4-0. Stanford was the one team I was concerned about being in the same bracket with, and we avoided that.

One down! BYU 2 UNLV 0. On to play Oklahoma in South Carolina. Not sure when the next game is. Anyone know the schedule?

UO beat SMU 1-0 we beat SMU at home 4-0. Next game Thursday.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667246/Davis-midfielder-Mikayla-Colohan-keeps-winning-including-2016-Ms-Soccer-award.html



She will be a Cougar next year.

Watching this game with BYU up 2-0. The difference in team speed and technical skill is obvious. BYU is way better than OU. OU is barely able to hold the ball before BYU takes it again. In fact, I'd say the WCC must be very underrated. I've watched almost all the games this season and half the teams in the WCC looked better to me than OU does today. All three WCC teams won in the first round, so we'll see what happens. BYU appears to be through to the sweet 16.

Won 2-1. I assume #1 South Carolina is next.

scott715 wrote:
Won 2-1. I assume #1 South Carolina is next.

S. Carolina beat Colorado 1-0 by making a PK in the 74th minute. I watched some of it. They are faster than OU was, but I think BYU is definitely capable of winning this one.

Santa Clara upset Stanford. Their goalie defended 14 SOG. Long live the WCC.

Breakdown of Sweet 16 teams by conference



ACC = 5 (Clemson, Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina St, Virginia) 5 of 7 teams remain

P12 = 3 (UCLA, USC, Utah) 3 of 6 teams remain

SEC = 3 (Auburn, Florida, South Carolina) 3 of 6 teams remain

WCC = 2 (BYU, Santa Clara) 2 of 3 teams remain

Big East = 1 (Georgetown) 1 of 2 teams remain

Big Ten = 1 (Northwestern) 1 of 8 teams remain

B12 = 1 (West Virginia) 1 of 6 teams remain

1-0 loss to South Carolina tonight on a PK. A sad ending to a truly outstanding season. I will miss the seniors, who have been SO good throughout their careers. Respect to Ashley Hatch, Michelle Vasconcelos, Elena Medeiros, Paige Hunt-Barker, Rachel Boaz and Miranda Bailey-Topham.

When you play a #1 seed on their home field you're only going to get 2 or 3 chances in the entire game. If you don't take advantage of them, you're going to lose. That's what happened. BYU ran into a very good team. Only had two or three chances and couldn't put any of them away.