Summit Softball RPI Update...

[Hammersmith]

I'm not sure about your first sentence. I'm assuming they rank each team 1 -4 then they play as close to home as possible after the seedings are done. But I really don't know for sure. I do think being a 2 seed is more important than you think since they won't have a ranked team like Auburn was last year in the regional.

NCAA DI softball selection process(and VB and baseball and soccer and a few other sports):

1. Select the top 16 seeds and give them the option to host a regional.
2. Sort everybody else purely by geography.
3. Try to make sure you don't have 3 top teams or 3 bottom feeders in the same regional(but don't try too hard).
4. Rank each regional 1-4.

Draw a 350mi circle around Minneapolis. Assuming the Gophers stay in the top 16, and the Bison win the Summit tourney, you can be certain the other two teams will come from within that circle if possible. UNI will go to MSP if they make it. Other possibilities would be Drake, UWGB, etc. I don't think they put teams from the same conference in the same regional if they can avoid it, so Iowa and Wisc are out.



2009: Minnesota unseeded
(7)Oklahoma, Tulsa, Arkansas, NDSU

2010: Minnesota unseeded
(3)Washington, Nebraska, North Carolina, NDSU

2011: Minnesota unseeded
(1)Arizona St, San Diego St, Long Beach St, NDSU

2012: Minnesota unseeded
(13)Arizona, Hawai'i, Notre Dame, NDSU

2014: Minnesota seeded
(16)Minnesota, NDSU, Auburn, Green Bay

2015: Minnesota seeded
(?)Minnesota, NDSU, ???, ???

[imabison]

Thanks for that information, I was wondering how NDSU ended up in Tulsa, that explained it.

[NDSUFan_Sav]

Location holds more water than anything else

Hoooold more? Say what?

[Tatanka]

Bison first team out just 7 votes shy of 25th
Sent from somewhere on teh intarwebs.

[HerdBoy]

Bison first team out just 7 votes shy of 25th
Sent from somewhere on teh intarwebs.

It would have been nice if they could have won the 2nd game against South Alabama.

[Bison Fan 17]

Win the Summit League Tourney and let your 26th ranking do the talking at the regional.

[NDSUstudent]

Weekly Update...

36. NDSU
122. IUPUI
141. USD
176. WIU
187. Omaha
253. SDSU
273. IPFW

[tjbison]

Weekly Update...

36. NDSU
122. IUPUI
141. USD
176. WIU
187. Omaha
253. SDSU
273. IPFW

Wow....that's a gap of epic proportion...unreal really if you think about it

If any of those teams were better rpi we would be sitting good, entire conference is a drag