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by Hurricane » Tue May 16, 2017 11:18 pm

Wow. What a great season for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers softball team! They beat some big name teams during the season, yet, cannot make it into the top 16 seeds?

NCAA bias? Say it ain't so?
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by Hurricane » Wed May 17, 2017 9:57 pm

well, I have to disagree with you on this one, Spaz. I am assuming you are just parroting the NCAA Justification Office of B.S.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/ncaa-committee-tournament-softball-minnesota-seed-draw-florida-rankings

Minnesota deserved to be one of the top 16 seeds this year. The Gophs earned it.

Hey, maybe the NCAA didn't want to have games played so far north where it might snow in May? :mrgreen:
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by as the world turns » Thu May 18, 2017 8:24 am

Hurricane wrote:well, I have to disagree with you on this one, Spaz. I am assuming you are just parroting the NCAA Justification Office of B.S.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/ncaa-committee-tournament-softball-minnesota-seed-draw-florida-rankings

Minnesota deserved to be one of the top 16 seeds this year. The Gophs earned it.

Hey, maybe the NCAA didn't want to have games played so far north where it might snow in May? :mrgreen:


Article is BS. College coaches turned activists and voted MN #1 in order to make a statement. Whatever. Play a tougher schedule and stop whining.
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by jonriv » Thu May 18, 2017 8:59 am

Didn't the Gophers have the 11th best RPI?

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/softball/d ... ftball-rpi

Surely they should have been seeded at least a little higher?
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by Hurricane » Thu May 18, 2017 12:09 pm

Come on, ASWT.....you're saying that article is B.S. ???? Really?

I didn't know you were elected the arbiter of what is true or not true. The article presented many FACTS concerning the NCAA snub.

Fake News is the NCAA's outright dishonesty in their reasoning for the snub. No excuse for giving the Gophers that horrible seed while their RPI is ranked 11th.

Maybe the SEC coaches got together with the NCAA and whined they didn't want any of their teams to play so far North for fear of decent weather as they'd rather play in the bug-ridden, sweaty-humid confines of the south? :mrgreen:
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by PDad » Fri May 19, 2017 12:44 am

Hurricane wrote:I didn't know you were elected the arbiter of what is true or not true. The article presented many FACTS concerning the NCAA snub.

Fake News is the NCAA's outright dishonesty in their reasoning for the snub. No excuse for giving the Gophers that horrible seed while their RPI is ranked 11th.

The most damning thing is that same committee ranked Minnie #8/#7 in their 2 top-10 rankings right before seeding the tourney and then ignored their own rankings.

- http://www.ncaa.com/news/softball/article/2017-04-22/ncaa-softball-championship-committee-announces-first-top-10-ranking

- http://www.ncaa.com/news/softball/article/2017-05-06/ncaa-softball-championship-sport-committee-announces-second-top-10
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by Dugout Dad » Fri May 19, 2017 10:36 am

I think it is time for the Gophers to kick azz and prove the softball elites wrong. One game at a time.
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by jonriv » Fri May 19, 2017 6:35 pm

Dugout Dad wrote:I think it is time for the Gophers to kick azz and prove the softball elites wrong. One game at a time.



Go go gophers......

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHHrI47oE30
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by Hurricane » Fri May 19, 2017 9:18 pm

Gophers have nothing to prove. They are a good team. They had a great season. They deserved a better seeding. But they didn't get it. Win or lose it doesn't change the fact that the committee had some bias this year.
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