Do you think that an MPSF semi win for UCLA will give them the #1 seed for the NCAAs? I was thinking that if USC and UCLA meet up in the MPSF finals, that the winner will get the #1 seed.
UCLA has 1 loss and USC has 3, so I think UCLA will need to lose twice to lose the #1 seed. I could be wrong, but that’s my thinking. UCLA was #1 in RPI heading into today’s game. I think their win over Fordham and USC not playing Fordham means UCLA will be deemed to have the higher strength of schedule. Add that to UCLA having the better record and I think it is likely they get it with a win over Cal.
Not to get ahead of ourselves, but if USC beats UCLA in the MPSF finals, then USC would have 3 losses and UCLA 2, but USC would own the head to head advantage 2-1. Tough call on who would then be ranked higher.
I think whoever wins the MPSF tournament between USC and UCLA will get the No.1 seed in the NCAA tournament. If the games between Stanford and Cal were closer, I’d say Cal still has a slim shot at an at-large. However, given that Stanford was clearly the better team across 64 minutes of H2H game-time and how much better the Cardinal did against Fordham, I feel good enough to say Cal needs to win the MPSF tournament or is out.
Record and Strength of schedule are the main criteria and if its tied after that, then it would go to head to head, last 10 games record, RPI, wins/losses vs common opponents.
Per the NCAA bylines, they proceed to seed the teams after the participating teams have been selected and look at all the criteria when making a seed determination.
we’ll see what happens, I think UCLA will be number 1 seed, but I may be wrong. Those 2 Cal losses for USC are looking worse as the season has gone on. Thats going to make it tough for UCLA to not be 1 in RPI. USC’s last loss to Cal will fall in the last 10 games, so they will tie last 10 game record if they beat UCLA again.
It is the style of defense as well, UCLA playng more of a press while SC is in a drop from beginning to end.
They found one is Castillo.
How are they the better team? evenly matched yes, but in the end UCLA got what they needed from timeouts, and a win without a productive 6-5. Defense wins.
I thought USC played better, just my opinion. But UCLA gritted out the win in the end. I thought UCLA played pretty badly today so for them to pull out the W is huge.
Tyler is commentating women’s Legacy Crown games.
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Agreed. Have picture of the ball in Dodds hand and the clock at zero…..the reffing overall during that game was really poor.
Really seems like the margins of difference between UCLA, USC and Stanford are microscopic
Could easily see any of the three teams winning the title in a few weeks
Got it, 1st quarter was good for Bruins, SC fought back as good teams do. Then there was a long stetch of good offense for both, poor 6-5 execution for UCLA. UCLA had some good timeouts IMHO and executed in the end. SC had solid timeouts and 6-5 conversions fro them. Besides the 6-5’s I think the Bruins played ok. Cal up north was there best game YTD. SC played better the last time they played. Seemed like the shot blocking and defense was suspect and hurt SC. Both really evenly matched teams. For what its worth SC started all Eurpoeans much of the game outside keeper. I think Bruins played better and won, my opinion.
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Adam is the master of managing his time outs. Pinta did a poor job with that today but so do most teams
If UCLA gets the one seed, I just don’t see how they don’t go back to back. UCLA would play a D2 school R1 and likely Fordham or the WCC winner in the semis. That’s likely a 7-8 goal win for them in the semis.
Meanwhile, USC and Stanford have to play a quality R1 opponent (likely Princeton & the Big West winner) and have a gauntlet of a semifinal before facing a UCLA team in the final who is coming off a meaningless QF game and a comfortable SF win.
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Agree with that analysis. The one-seed is a huge advantage in this tournament. Three games in three days always manifests itself in that championship game.
It certainly seemed like number 2-seed SC ran out of gas in that game last year - not taking anything away from Ucla as they were the best team all year. However, in SC’s first round game against CBU they were down 3-1 after the first quarter and had to fight pretty hard to eventually win 17-13. Meanwhile Ucla had a game that was tantamount to an intra-team scrimmage! Definitely meaningful in my estimation.
I made an argument a while ago on this board about perhaps including a 9th team to “play-in” against the D2 team, but I’d trade that if we could get a day off between the semis and finals.
Regarding Dodd’s 7/6 shot at the end of the 3rd period.
When watching the USC/UCLA game live, the clock definitely looks to have hit 0 before he got it off.
Looking at the video with sound on UCLA’s Instagram, is seems as though he might have got the shot off right before the horn.
Does the clock show zero as soon as it gets to 0.99 seconds, or does the time show 0 when there is absolutely no time left, 0.00 seconds?
at the end of the third period? The horn and clock are synched on those systems.