NCAA Difficulties with Seeding and Game Sites

The only neutral site games in the tournament are in the first weekend where you don't play the host.

Correct. If you don't play the host in the first round, then the game is a neutral site game. And, if the host loses in the first round, then the second round game is a neutral site game. The third round games and quarterfinals never are at neutral sites.

Purplegeezer wrote:The only neutral site games in the tournament are in the first weekend where you don't play the host.

Obvioulsy, huh? At least I don't claim to be smart.

"North Carolina 41
Notre Dame 30
Portland 24
UCLA 21
Santa Clara 21
Connecticut 13
Florida State 11
Penn State 11
Florida 8
Stanford 5"--UP Soccer Fanatic

I still think it's bogus that the WCC isn't considered a "big conference" in women's soccer. Over the years, UP and SCU have been as dominant as any teams other than UNC. Let's just add Milbrett and Chastain to the selection committee. Problem solved!

UPSoccerFanatic wrote:In '02, the Pilots were a #2 seed, placed in the overall #8 slot. Stanford had a #1 seed and was in the #1 slot for #1 seeds. With the Pilots in the #8 slot, the two teams met in the Round of 16, where the Pilots advanced on pks. The Committee's botched Pilots seed in this one may well have cost Stanford a position in the College Cup and possibly a position against the Pilots in the finals. In addition, the Pilots again were sent on the road for the first two games, thus having 1 home game, 2 away, and 1 neutral to get to the College Cup.

Actually in '02, the Pilots returned home to host the mighty Spiders of Richmond in the Sweet Sixteen. (I remember rushing the field after full time). It was in the Elite Eight that we drew Standford and then advanced to the College Cup on PKs.

http://www.portlandpilots.com/schedule.aspx?path=wsoc&schedule=178

VillaGorilla wrote:Actually in '02, the Pilots returned home to host the mighty Spiders of Richmond in the Sweet Sixteen. (I remember rushing the field after full time). It was in the Elite Eight that we drew Standford and then advanced to the College Cup on PKs.

Right you are. And, to make a further correction, that year it was 1 game home, 1 away, and 2 neutral. The Pilots were sent to BYU for the opening rounds. They beat Idaho State 3-0 in the first game. BYU lost to Utah in the first round, so the Pilots played Utah in the second round and won 3-0 (thus the 2 neutral games). Then was the Richmond game (which I must have been at, but don't remember), with the Pilots winning 4-0. Then came the memorable game at Stanford. My niece and her husband are on the Stanford faculty and, at our urging, went to the game. Another niece (they're sisters) and her husband, from Seattle, were visiting them, and they also went. Three of them rooted for Stanford, but my "nephew-in-law" from Seattle rooted for the Pilots. He still sings "Portland, score a goal, score a goal, score a goal ...." Now, most years, we visit them during the UW tournament and go to the games with them. After Stanford came the College Cup in Austin, Texas. In the semis, the Pilots downed Penn State 2-0. Then came the double overtime game against Santa Clara, with Kristen Moore sending her long cross to Christine Sinclair, off the keeper, off the post, and Christine finishing it, with Kim Head saying many prayers of thanks in the other goal.

Kim Head came in as a sub late in the game for our regular keeper. For 20 points...what was our regular keeper's name?

without looking it up was it corey

Lauren Arase obviously.

^^Well done son, have a Pliny!^^