NCAA Soccer Tourney Thread

[Mean Green Matt]

Feels good just starting a topic with the words "NCAA Tourney" in it. Mean Green will find out their opponent tomorrow. We should have a good seed, but with soccer, regional scheduling is a big deal. My best guess would be taking on Baylor in Waco. Wherever it is, it will be an on-campus site rather than a neutral location.

North Texas has an RPI of 56 out of 323.

Way to Go Mean Green!

Edited November 4, 2012 by Mean Green Matt

[FirefightnRick]

Excellent! Thanks for the FB post btw Matt.

Rick

[Mean Green Matt]

First round will take place this Friday through Sunday (November 9-11) at the home of the higher seeds. The selection show is tomorrow at 3:30pm CT and will be streamed live on NCAA.com. 30 bids are automatic and 34 bids are at large. Here is the complete list of automatic qualifiers. North Texas ranks 15th out of the 30 qualified teams so far. Assuming all at large bids will be higher seeds than us, that put us in the 12-13 seed range...we could get a little help from winning our conference and get a boost. Regional matchups also play big in to the seeding. I could see us being a 13-14 seed and playing Baylor, a 3-4 seed. We will find out tomorrow.

Automatic Qualifiers:

Sun Belt - North Texas (56)

America East - Stony Brook (154)

Atlantic 10 - La Salle (51)

ACC - Virginia (8)

Atlantic Sun - Florida Gulf Coast (66)

Big 12 - Baylor (11) - Potential 1st Round Opponent - Defeated TCU 4-1 in the final. NT tied Baylor and lost 1-0 to TCU in the regular season.

Big East - Marquette (22)

Big Sky - Idaho State (200)

Big South - Radford (117)

Big 10 - Ohio State (16)

Big West - Cal State Northridge (55)

Colonial - Hofstra (110)

Conference USA - UCF (19)

Horizon Leaque - Milwaukee (138)

Ivy League - Princeton (43)

Metro Atlantic - Loyola Maryland (150)

MAC - Miami-Ohio (52)

Missouri Valley - Illinois State (119)

Mountain West - San Diego State (5)

Northeast - LIU Brooklyn (201)

Ohio Valley - UT Martin (143)

PAC 12 - Stanford (1)

Patriot - Colgate (112)

SEC - Florida (9)

Southern - Georgia Southern (205)

Southland - Stephen F. Austin (38)

SWAC - Mississippi Valley State (289)

Summit - Oakland (148)

West Coast - BYU (6)

WAC - Utah State (85)

Edited November 4, 2012 by Mean Green Matt

[Mean Green Matt]

Selection show in less than four hours. Really hoping we play within driving distance.

[GreenBat]

Here is a link to the selection show: http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2012-09-27/2012-fall-championships-selections

Starts at 3:30 p.m. Central

[outoftown]

It is not Baylor, they even have an away game (weird)

[outoftown]

Ok, it is texas Tech... happy Matt?

[Mean Green Matt]

It is a winnable game, just wish it was closer. SFA had a higher RPI than us, but in my opinion get the tougher game in College Station. Baylor must have some sort of scheduling conflict, because they are a no brainer host. Shame they didn't send the bears to Denton.

This team can compete with just about anyone, so it should be interesting. Go Mean Green!

[UNTDude]

It is a winnable game, just wish it was closer. SFA had a higher RPI than us, but in my opinion get the tougher game in College Station. Baylor must have some sort of scheduling conflict, because they are a no brainer host. Shame they didn't send the bears to Denton.

This team can compete with just about anyone, so it should be interesting. Go Mean Green!

Agreed...winnable match.

[Mean Green Matt]

If we do make it through, the likely opponent will be region #1 seed Florida State...which would be a very, very tough game, and, as I understand it would be hosted in Tallahassee.

[NT03]

Just realized this is Tech's first time ever to advance to the NCAA tournament.

[Mo Green]

^{http://www.ncaa.com/...soccer-women/d1}

^{When we win we probably will play FSU in Florida since they are a #1 seed.}

^{The problem is that they will play Fridaay the same time as trhe bb game (7 PM).}

^{Go soccer gals!}

[10Eagle10]

anyone making the trip?

I see Tech is hosting Kansas in football earlier that day. I wonder if that will have an impact in Tech's favor. ie fans sticking around and packing in the soccer stadium

[foutsrouts]

The "NO TEX" thing is starting to make me wish that we would go by UNT. Big game, and let's do it ladies!

[THOR]

Not a fan of the "unt" moniker...prefer north Texas

In this case...no tex is fine...I hate ut...