I will be pleasantly surprised if Davis doesn't end up playing Stanford again. :lol: Anything beyond that is gravy.

I went through the NET ratings and picked out the other auto bids. If they just seeded by NET rating 1-64, we're ahead of 18 teams, which would put us as a 12 seed, which is where ESPN has us also. Even if you want to quibble with a couple of the teams close to us, we shouldn't be any worse than a 13 seed. The bottom 12 teams are all 100 or more (so 30 spots worse than us).

The reason we tend to get screwed over is travel, which isn't an issue this year. The last couple times the BW champ didn't play a Pac-12 school were 2018 (CSUN was a 16, sent to Indiana, other options were Kent, Miss, Conn; Stanford was a 4, UCLA a 3 and Oregon a 2 and played Seattle that year) and 2014 (CSUN played South Carolina but game was in Seattle).

So I wouldn't worry about us getting dropped a couple seeds just to not have to travel, which happened in 2019.

I don't have ESPN access at work. Can someone please have an update?

Ags the #12 seed and will play Missouri St next Monday at 4:30 PDT on ESPNU. Good draw for the Ags. Time to look up Missouri St.

I missed it. Did they show the Aggies celebrating?

Yep for about 15 seconds. Said the Ags are the two time defending BW tournament champs led by Coach Jen Gross. Then they moved on.

Someone surely will post that fifteen second clip here, I hope!

If I see the clip, I'll post it. Here's a still:

MO St. was just in the news for pulling out of their conference tourney after their opponent tested COVID+.

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story?id=31058741&_slug_=missouri-state-withdraws-mvc-women-basketball-tournament-opponent-bradley-positive-test

Much better draw than typically going to Stanford for sure! This will be a very tough test for the Aggies though. Missouri State is 21-2 overall and 16-0 in the Missouri Valley Conference. Last year they went 26-4 & 16-2. They take their basketball seriously in the midwest.

Wow! That ESPN bracketology was perfect since they projected this matchup.

I just saw that their conference championship was cancelled but didn't know why. Interesting. They have a lot of wins against other mid-majors, plus a big win vs. Maryland (a 2 seed). Anything but Stanford is a "win" for us. Yeah Eastbay, they nailed it.

Oregon ended up a 6-seed, for what that's worth.

OBA: in small world news, Jason Ingebrigtsen did grad work at MO St. (formerly SW Missouri St.).

Really? That is a small world. He better know where his allegiances lie :smile:

That's what I just told Tracy. :lol:

While it's a much better draw than Stanford, Missouri State has a very impressive resume:

• In the last tournament in 18-19, they made the Sweet 16 knocking off 2 ranked teams prior to falling to Stanford by single digits
• Nationally ranked this year and in 19-20 even though there was no tournament
• Beat a #2 seed in Maryland this year and crushed a good #11 seed FGCU by 25 points
• Top ranked mid major: http://collegeinsider.com/womens-mid-major-top-25
• Edit: Perfect 16-0 in the 12th ranked conference by rpi (Missouri Valley). For comparison, the Big West is ranked 16th best by rpi

We're going to need a near flawless performance.

Would have been interesting to see the seed we would have gotten in a normal year. Stanford is a 1 so we can’t be dropped that far. UCLA and Arizona are both 3’s so they could have dropped us two spots. Happened two years ago. Oregon is a 6 so depending on how close we were to the 11 seeds in the eyes of the committee, maybe they jump us to an 11. Or they could have bumped us to an 11 in the same region as UCLA/Arizona since those locations would host.

Regardless, definitely happy with a 12. Missouri State is tough and we’re probably not winning but it still beats playing a 1 or a 2 seed where you literally have no chance unless the other team has two key players tear ACL’s right before the tourney, which is what happened to Stanford when they lost as a 1. That’s still the only 1, 2 or 3 seed to lose in the first round of the women’s tourney.

Well you ended up being dead on, thanks for crunching the numbers!

BWC twitter says this is the best WBB seed since 2004. I'm also vengefully happy that we placed higher than the MWC champion (Wyoming) -- I've had a gut feeling for a while that the MWC is undersupporting WBB, though that's heavily biased due to how poor SDSU's WBB team does compared to its other spectator sports.

I'm an exception here. I do hope we get to play Stanford.... in the Sweet Sixteen! :)

The #5 vs. #12 matchup starts at about 2:41.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggie-women-will-dance-with-no-17-missouri-state/

Davis had another reason to cheer on Monday. When Stanford was announced as the top seed in the so-called Alamo Region at the multi-site “bubble” tournament in San Antonio, Texas, the Aggie women collectively held their breath, waiting for the Cardinal opponent to be announced.

In Davis’ two other D-I trips to the NCAAs, they’ve driven to Palo Alto and fallen to Stanford. When Utah Valley was unveiled as the Cardinal foe, broad smiles and a smattering of applause came from the assembled Blue-and-Gold.

“It’s not that we didn’t want to play them,” Big West Player of the Year and tourney MVP Cierra Hall told The Enterprise. “It was that we just wanted to play somebody else. That’s why we were happy.”

Missouri State Women's Basketball Forum:
https://247sports.com/college/missouri-state/board/missouri-state-womens-basketball-message-board-forum-59471/

Feels good to finally see the school being more regularly referred to as UC Davis rather than Cal Davis.

The ending of the Stanford/SC game. Wow.

yeah it was quite a finish. Stanford was lucky to survive

I felt sorry for SC...tough way to lose with those two missed shots in the final seconds.

It was a tough way to lose. As their coach said, the margin of error is so thin in these games. Az with the big upset In game 2. I had some wildcat friends at the game. It must have been so much fun!