UAZipster0305 Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 A justified seed, and some interesting opponents in our region!...UNC could be playing in Akron in December...what a dream!Looks like the committee got most of the seeds and the bracket as a whole fairly distributed. Creighton paid the price for a weak schedule...that could be a nice pay back game for them knocking us out a few years back when one of our defenders slipped and gave an easy chance for the tying goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchIt Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) http://www.ncaa.com/live/player?vid=2015/2029Seems to be over and not replaying.UCLA and Virginia unseeded.I am still speechless, NCCA has new darling non major, UA!! Edited November 16, 2015 by SwitchIt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmaker Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Here's the full bracket. Akron with a first round bye. Will play winner of Rutgers and LIU Brooklyn.http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/soccer-men/d1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) We beat 3 of the top 16 teams on the road this season, tied one, and lost to the #1. We beat the B1G and Big East Champions. Pretty impressive.I have a good feeling about this team and the outcome of the season. Edited November 16, 2015 by UAZipster0305 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Being pleasantly surprised by a soccer bracket is a new feeling Given our past treatment by the NCAA, I did not believe that we would have a top 4 seed. I guess Larry Williams might understand NCAA politics a little better than Tom W? Time for the team to take advantage of the circumstances! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBZipfan Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) Also pleasantly surprised, especially getting seeded higher than UNC, which had a better record and played a tougher schedule (as measured by the OWP and OOWP components of RPI). So as usual the committee's thinking is inscrutable. But however it happened, Akron now has a great chance to advance deep in the tournament. Let's go Zips! Edited November 16, 2015 by MarkS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted November 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Akron was rewarded for their nonconference schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) These people are unbelievable. Why Why Why did they choose THIS TEAM to give a Top 4 seed? Did it just take 10 years for them to wake up to the Powerhouse we have here? A good group on the committee who finally decided that NAME shouldn't be the top criteria?Unbelievable. I'm thrilled. NO ROAD GAMES Edited November 16, 2015 by skip-zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 These people are unbelievable. Why Why Why did they choose THIS TEAM to give a Top 4 seed? Did it just take 10 years for them to wake up to the Powerhouse we have here? A good group on the committee who finally decided that NAME shouldn't be the top criteria?Unbelievable. I'm thrilled. NO ROAD GAMES Odd thing to think about but you know after years of success and a National Championship (which wasn't that long ago) maybe, just maybe, Akron is now a NAME. Couple that with an excellent schedule and perhaps the soccer team has truly arrived - I've read articles recently where Akron has been identified as a college soccer titan. Perhaps respect has finally been earned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Are we surprised or disappointed no other MAC soccer teams got in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpsjugglerdude Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Odd thing to think about but you know after years of success and a National Championship (which wasn't that long ago) maybe, just maybe, Akron is now a NAME. Couple that with an excellent schedule and perhaps the soccer team has truly arrived - I've read articles recently where Akron has been identified as a college soccer titan. Perhaps respect has finally been earned.Maybe the selection committee was watching the USMNT game and saw we were the only college with multiple guys. The announcers gushing over Akron's program was nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fknbuflobo Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) Are we surprised or disappointed no other MAC soccer teams got in?Neither. It would have been nice had one of these MAC teams been worthy. Edited November 16, 2015 by fknbuflobo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) Maybe the selection committee was watching the USMNT game and saw we were the only college with multiple guys. The announcers gushing over Akron's program was nice.That was excellent. It's really a shame that more people in this area don't recognize the gem that is Akron Zips Mens Soccer. 23 men representing 300+ Million people and 2 of them played for The University of Akron. Edited November 16, 2015 by Zip_ME87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) I probably shouldn't gloat but I'm going to anyway...A former Zips Coach once remarked something like It can't be done in Akron which proved to be wrong. Well, it hasn't been done in Louisville, and won't be done this year. Edited November 17, 2015 by Zip_ME87 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z.I.P. Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Are we surprised or disappointed no other MAC soccer teams got in?Anyone think that WMU would have gotten in if they had beaten Buffalo in the Semis (then lost in final)? I'd say, still little <50/50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z.I.P. Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 An earlier thread said that the AK Rowdies were the reason that Akron was underrated by the committee in the past. So, I guess now the committee <3 AK-ROWDIES!!! I've never seen this story mentioned on here, so this is as good a time as any. At the College Cup semi-finals in Santa Barbara (vs Michigan), a gentleman came over from on the field to tell the Rowdies they had to "tone it down" in their chants. I only discovered on the flight home after we were that that guy was the Chairman of the NCAA Men's D1 Soccer Committee. I believe he was HC of St John's or nearby East Coast school. True story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fknbuflobo Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 WMU may have snuck in with win over Buffalo and tight loss to Akron.The MAC needs to get better. I wish we still had Kentucky in conference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBZipfan Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 (edited) WMU may have snuck in with win over Buffalo and tight loss to AkronWMU was #73 in final RPI. UConn, at #36, was the lowest RPI team to get an at-large bid. NC State, at #34, was left out. So WMU had no chance. Winning one more game would not change RPI rank by very much.Coming back to UNC, I noticed that they played almost all their games at home. This was probably a significant factor in their being seeded below their RPI rank by the committee.FWIW, I believe the committee's choices are essentially random. They go into a room, they can't possibly hold all the relevant data in their heads, they have no particular expertise in statistics, many have no particular expertise in soccer (though this shouldn't even be relevant: do we want the committee making decisions based on their impressions of how good a team is?). So, they basically toss around ideas like, "yeah, but UNC played so many games at home!" and "Akron did beat Georgetown, and we think the Hoyas should get a top-4 seed" and the like, and then come to some consensus, and then go to lunch. Edited November 17, 2015 by MarkS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 CUSA got 4 teams in, same as B10 and AAC.WMU may have snuck in with win over Buffalo and tight loss to Akron.The MAC needs to get better. I wish we still had Kentucky in conference.CUSA got 4 teams in, same as B10 and AAC. http://www.conferenceusa.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/111615aab.html Regular-season champion Kentucky (12-4-2) earned an at-large big to the NCAA Championship. The Wildcats, headed by C-USA Co-Coach of the Year Johan Cedegren, won their first C-USA regular-season title, going 7-0-1 in C-USA action, marking just the fourth time in C-USA history a team has gone undefeated in league play. This is Kentucky's seventh NCAA Tournament in program history and the school's third in the past four seasons. The Wildcats are set to host Missouri Valley Champion Drake (12-4-3) Thursday, Nov. 19 at 6 p.m. CST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennZip Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1/ncaa-mens-soccer-rpithis is the final NCAA rpiit is different from gaucho dansyracuse was #3 in final rpi...gaucho had them at 6SMU really received no love from the NCAA. Denver was 18th in final rpi...and was seeded #13SMU was #12 in NCAA Rpi....but was in effect...seeded #20 by the NCAASMU has to win a match before they face #13 DenverCoastal Carolina at #22...could be tough round of 32 matchup for the tar heels Very happy with the #4 seed for the zips. Tremendous credit for the tough schedule and the players and coaches for for working hard and producing a 15-3-2 record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippyfan34 Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 These people are unbelievable. Why Why Why did they choose THIS TEAM to give a Top 4 seed? Did it just take 10 years for them to wake up to the Powerhouse we have here? A good group on the committee who finally decided that NAME shouldn't be the top criteria?Unbelievable. I'm thrilled. NO ROAD GAMES I hear the reason we got the top 4 seed was because we were actually called Ohio's Polytechnic University during the seeding process. The Committee got confused, hadn't read the Beacon Journal to know that it was actually the University of Akron, and therefore couldn't penalize us because of the AK-Rowdies. Kudos to the Scar for the rebranding as it got us home field throughout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBZipfan Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 I hear the reason we got the top 4 seed was because we were actually called Ohio's Polytechnic University during the seeding process. The Committee got confused, hadn't read the Beacon Journal to know that it was actually the University of Akron, and therefore couldn't penalize us because of the AK-Rowdies. Kudos to the Scar for the rebranding as it got us home field throughout LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fknbuflobo Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 WMU was as low RPI as #73? Much lower than I suspected. Wow. MAC is really bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 WMU was as low RPI as #73? Much lower than I suspected. Wow. MAC is really bad.Yes the other teams in the MAC play crap schedules + Akron.Russell Cicerone and Co. at home playing FIFA on the sofa. Adam Najem, Richie Laryea, Victor Souto and Co. at home playing real opponents on Cub Cadet Field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennZip Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 http://www.nscaa.com/rankings/5005/NCAADivisionI/men/Poll12zips moved from #10 up to #5 in the final soccer coaches poll.Rutgers finished at #23 the NCAA has Denver at 13 and SMU at 20 in the tourney drawthey were 10 and 11 in the final coaches poll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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