Women Didn't Make It

[Velcro]

Its all about resume and our record against top teams wasn't good.

Close games only count for so much, especially when there were so many lopsided losses (see rutgers for an example).

Playing LSU or UConn close would be nice, if we had wins to back it up.  Beating ND and UL is good, but that is pretty much the extent of the resume other than a tough schedule.  

Lets win that WNIT!

[BullyPulpit]

Brian (Tampa)

How did USF not get in in favor of TCU, ND, La-Laf? We had a 30 RPI!!!

CHARLIE CREME

I agree on USF. It's not a tragedy that they are not in, but I would have them above TCU and LL.

That was my post, but they paraphrased it. What a crock of crap. Wash, TCU, UofLL, ND, we had a better body of work then all of them *ND was a wash, but we beat them head to head.

I was going to post a link to www.womensnit.com, which, up to a minute ago, had what appeared to be a bracket showing the NIT match-ups. I did not get to count to see if all 48 teams were accounted for, but USF was NOT amongst the teams listed. Florida Int'l was, but USF was not. I am hoping it was an incomplete list and we were left off, as they were not sure if we would be in the NCAA Tournament or not. I should have posted it sooner.

[Velcro]

that list only shows autobids

there is no reason we wouldn't be one of the top teams in the tournament

[Joe]

We were terrible against top 50 RPI teams, and finished the season 3-6. Like I said, sucks we didn't get in, but we had a good chance to put it away, 7 of our 9 conference wins came against teams that didn't make the NCAAs.

Looking objectively the resume wasn't great.

[BullyPulpit]

Actually, I checked some of the teams I remembered seeing and it was a list from 2006, but the link was to the 2007 bracket. They just hadn't switched the teams yet.

[Brad]

dash

[Brad]

This thread got screwed too, sorry.

[dantheusfman]

To clarify:

WE ARE IN THE NIT

I don't know which game affects ours, as we have a first round bye

[Doc]

The reason USF was left out is clear.  We lost to DePaul (whose coach Doug Bruno still holds much power in these tight races) and despite the nonsense these committees spew about not counting up bids from each conference, they were not about to give the Big East nine bids.  Stupid arithmetic.  A ninth team would have forced two Big East schools into the same "half-region" and the committee doesn't like that.  As soon as I saw DePaul got in, I knew it was over.  Lafayette didn't steal our bid.  DePaul did, with two wins in a row over Notre Dame at the end of the year.  If they lose either game, we take their place as a 10-seed.

I don't buy that stuff about the team collapsing.  The schedule-makers didn't do us any favors with road games at WVU, Marquette, and DePaul in that late stretch.  We were significant underdogs in each of those games, as well as the two against UConn.  Of course, if we had won ONE of these or beaten Pitt we wouldn't be having this discussion.

As for the wNIT, I think we get the automatic bid as the highest-seeded Big East team not going to the Big Dance.  We were #8 and #1-7 and #10 got in.  Still waiting for them to update the bracket (funny, they already list Lafayette without the "if not to NCAA" disclaimer). . .

[Guest Sprtsfn627]

We play the winner of Coppin State-Saint Joseph's.

No date has been announced...and worse, the place it is to be played is TBD.

We may not even get a home game  :-/