2025 NCAA Tournament

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2 minutes ago, fknbuflobo said:

I am hearing this match is being moved to Sunday.

Stay tuned.....

Hope so. No selfish intentions 😁

[Let'sGoZips94]

Someone at the NCAA forgot that Ohio State/Michigan is on Saturday. Glad someone caught that and corrected it. 

[MDZip]

Watching Bryant and SHU. Thought Bryant had one of the nicer soccer facilities - til I realized it was their football stadium. 

[MDZip]

Another Big East win. Georgetown ousts UCF 2-0. 

[MDZip]

And a Big East loss. SHU goes down 1-0 to Bryant. 

[MDZip]

And the #2 seed goes down. Virginia (rhymes with won't miss ya) loses to UNCG on PKs. The numbers 1,2,3,5 and six seeds are gone. The #4 seed, Maryland just barely advanced on PKs. 

[Reslife4Life]

UNC Greensboro beats Virginia in PKs. Virginia has a horrendous miss on the final PK to lose

[TennZip]

Southern Conference...looking strong...with their two teams

Furman and UNC-Greensboro in the final 16.....

Big East is the lone big conference where their seeded teams have met expectations.

ACC tournament finalists (2 Virginia and 5 SMU ) both gone

the Big Ten (or Little Ten ??)....both tournament finalists Michigan and UCLA dumped in round of 64....and the 6 seed Indiana (the most over seeded team in the tourney) goes belly up in their first game

 

By my count ...so far.....

Conferences in sweet 16

 

Big East     3

    7 seed Georgetown ; 13 seed UConn ; 14 seed Akron

Atlantic  10      1

    unseeded St. Louis

American East      1

    11 seed Bryant

Big Ten            2

    4 seed Maryland  ; unseeded Washington

ACC                  2

      15 seed NC State ; unseeded Duke

Coastal Athletic     1

    unseeded Hofstra

Southern Conference     2

    16 seed Furman ; unseeded UNC Greensboro

 

12 spots earned

8 remaining teams

High Point from the Big South looking good against West Virginia from the Sun Belt

Summit league could get 2 teams in sweet 16....Denver or Kansas City

West Coast Conference could get 2 teams...Portland or San Diego

Grand Canyon from the WAC...trying to pull an upset

Stanford from the ACC is trying to give the ACC 3 teams

[UAZipster0305]

2 hours ago, Reslife4Life said:

UNC Greensboro beats Virginia in PKs. Virginia has a horrendous miss on the final PK to lose

After UVA parked the bus on us in the final in 2009 and "won" on PKs after holding it 0-0 despite having very little possession or opportunities themselves, any day they lose on PKs is a holiday to me!

Edited 14 hours ago by UAZipster0305

[TennZip]

17 minutes ago, UAZipster0305 said:

After UVA parked the bus on us in the final in 2009 and "won" on PK's after holding it 0-0 despite having very little possession or opportunities themselves, any day they lose on PK's is a holiday to me!

and the even neater part...is that their women's soccer team also lost on PK's this afternoon in Charlottesville....so 2 PK losses on one day on their home field for the uppity Hoo's.    

 

Congratulations to former Zip Seth Wilson (he was the GK today for UNC-Greensboro).

[UAZipster0305]

#9 San Diego loses 2-1 to Grand Canyon. Insane day of upsets!

[MDZip]

Only Georgetown - High Point and Maryland - Connecticut will have two seeded teams playing each other in the Sweet 16. 

[UAZipster0305]

I like St. Louis's chances to beat #11 Bryant and give us a fourth round home game if we win.

[Let'sGoZips94]

This has been an incredible tournament thus far. Helps that Akron is advancing, but props to college soccer for delivering as a whole. Maybe those snobby ESPN/ACC honk commentators from Thursday night are learning their lesson about what a more level playing field actually looks like in college athletics. 

[TennZip]

2 goals from the weekend...that others might enjoy seeing

 

 

 

[TennZip]

7 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said:

I like St. Louis's chances to beat #11 Bryant and give us a fourth round home game if we win.

Just looked at the stats for the St. Louis at Indiana game.   Indiana led 8-0 in corner kicks.   Indiana led 16-3 in shots.   3 to 1 in shots on goal.    St. Louis was totally dominated but took advantage of their only chance.

 

     Zips have been focused all year on taking one game at a time.   Duke tied Georgetown during the season.  Any team that can hang with Georgetown is an excellent soccer team.   Duke at Akron will be 2 very good soccer teams doing battle on Sunday.

[Zips1991]

2 hours ago, TennZip said:

Just looked at the stats for the St. Louis at Indiana game.   Indiana led 8-0 in corner kicks.   Indiana led 16-3 in shots.   3 to 1 in shots on goal.    St. Louis was totally dominated but took advantage of their only chance.

 

     Zips have been focused all year on taking one game at a time.   Duke tied Georgetown during the season.  Any team that can hang with Georgetown is an excellent soccer team.   Duke at Akron will be 2 very good soccer teams doing battle on Sunday.

Obviously when Akron played St Louis, it was very one-sided but that was also the best I've seen the Zips look offensively this season. Plus, St Louis was on the second game of a road trip (played Duquesne a couple days prior), so they were probably tired. They've had a good season so let's hope they can take down Bryant -- and that the Zips win, of course!

[Let'sGoZips94]

This looks eerily similar to what Akron did vs. Virginia in the National Championship game in 2009.