Last year was likely the highest seed the Zips will ever see.
Others like McNeese and Akron, who were No. 12 seeds as automatic qualifiers, would likely have been pushed down to the No. 13 seed line to make room for eight additional at-large teams.
NCAA tournament to go to 76 teams. All the 16 seeds and half of the 15 will play in the opening round. Just another excuse to shove the automatic qualifiers down further so they can shove a few more P4 teams in. I hate college sports more everyday.
Softball had a brutal loss at Massachusetts on Saturday. Up 4 to 1 with two outs in the 7th with the bases loaded and lost on a walk-off Grand slam. Tough loss but they still took two of three from Massachusetts and they still lead the MAC at 17 and 4.
Typically when the MAC flies the pirate flag it indicates some sort of win over a power conference. Perhaps there is some sort of schedule release that includes contests against those leagues?
All of the teams that you cited aren't that much different than Akron. Akron was within 4 with about 8 minutes left. Sometimes those the times that Akron makes a run and it just didn't happen today. We played a good team but we no, were in no way overmatched despite the final score.