They were a 7th seed. They went into Charleston, Ill to play Jimmy Garoppolo and the #2 EIU Panthers. It snowed like crazy and Terrance West seemed to be the only person who brought cleats while everyone else was on ice skates. Perfect storm, if you will, for Towson to pull out the upset
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SHSU was unseeded in 2012. EWU was the #2 that year. SHSU was ranked pretty highly though (top 5ish I believe) in the polls in 2012 so they were one of the best unseeded teams. In 2013 Towson was the #7 seed so close to being unseeded but they beat #2 Eastern Illinois and #3 EWU in consecutive weeks so they definitely earned it. I'm pretty sure earlier in 2013 they were ranked in the top 3.
The 24-Team Bracket helps the eight seeded teams more than it hurts. It makes 16 non-seeded teams play an extra week without a break. The winners of that weekend then have to travel to the seeded teams' home. That's a lot of adversity to overcome and a team needs to be on fire to have a chance if they are not a Top-Eight team in the bracket.
In regards to seeding and match-ups, I believe the committee has done a pretty good job the last two years after the 2015 fiasco when they had all five MVFC on the same side of the bracket probably due to regionalization and to prevent another all-MVFC National Championship Game.
Last edited by Christopher Moen; 11-14-2018 at 05:30 PM.
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I thought that’s what the conference auto-bids were for. Either way aren’t you rewarding a team that has no or few quality wins (to borrow the language of the eye ball test). If so then why not “evaluate” quality losses?
Or, you know, instead of putting a damp finger in the air we could actually decide what we want to reward, set the ground rules in advance, and then do what we said we were going to do.
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I completely agree. There are plenty of examples out there where they have not taken the top at large teams even at 7-4 and rewarded a 9-2 season against nobody. This really isn't all that different than knowing upfront due to lack of a quality schedule that the Summit is a one bid league. Put the requirements out there and let's see who meets them. The arbitrary rule of getting to 7 wins is now gone, so let people know what those rules might be now.