2005 College Championships Pools - Women
La Calidad
B -- NC State, Iowa, Brown, A&M
C -- Texas, Carleton, Purdue, Rutgers
D -- Colorado, Cal, Dartmouth, Northwestern
A -- You know.
B -- Another tough draw imposed by Carleton winning the region. I think
NCSU takes it in a close one. Others fall into place.
C -- Texas all the way.
D -- Colorado all the way.
More later...
mccants
Bold Pool Predictions:
A: Cornell upsets MIT. Washington vs. Stanford will be a game to
watch. They have only met once, at regionals, and Stanford narrowly
escaped with at 10-9 win. Prediction: Stanford still pulls it out but
this is going to be one hell of a game.
B: everyone holds seed - NCSU vs. Iowa game will also be the game to
watch of this round (how am I going to be in two places at once??). I
pick NCSU to pull it off in the end by the slimmest of margins. They
will outlast and get a big D or two in the final couple of points.
C: Purdue upsets Carelton - Carleton, despite many people's opinions
(and, i am sure i will hear about them after I post this), is not the
same program of the last few years. Purdue's discipline and added
maturity will push them past carleton.
D: everyone holds seed - Dartmouth may give Cal a run for their money,
but Cal's experience of being on the much tougher west coast gives them
the edge up for the W.
Lindsey
Neva Cherniavsky
On Wed, 18 May 2005, La Calidad wrote:
> A -- Stanford, Washington, MIT, Cornell
> B -- NC State, Iowa, Brown, A&M
> C -- Texas, Carleton, Purdue, Rutgers
> D -- Colorado, Cal, Dartmouth, Northwestern
>
> A -- You know.
I like UW's chances. I also think Cornell will upset MIT (but I'm
cheering for Boston).
> B -- Another tough draw imposed by Carleton winning the region. I think
> NCSU takes it in a close one. Others fall into place.
NC State wins, pool goes to seed. Still, the 1-2 will be a barnburner.
> C -- Texas all the way.
They win it easily. The question is Purdue. Carleton-Purdue will be the
best 2-3 game of the day.
> D -- Colorado all the way.
I'll go ahead and call the Berkeley upset, just for kicks. Dartmouth
plays close games with the top two seeds but ends up #3 anyway.
Prequarters: Colorado beats Cornell, UW beats Dartmouth; Purdue over
Brown, Iowa over Carleton.
Quarters: NC State over Colorado, Texas over UW, Berkeley over
Purdue, Stanford over Iowa
Semis: Stanford over Berkeley and Texas over NC State
Finals: Stanford beats Texas
hollyb...@hotmail.com
but I saw them play at regionals and they looked really strong. Don't
underestimate Carleton because they always come out strong when it
counts. Their win over Iowa in finals at regionals was merely a
glimpse of what's to come at nationals.
mccants
easily, Iowa over Carleton easily (they learned their leason at
regionals and wont be caught down 0-4 in the first 15 minutes of the
game), and the game to watch will be Purdue vs. Brown. Brown wins
because Purdue spent all of their energy the day before and their top
three can only run hard every point so many points in a row. Brown is
deeper and more experienced at this sort of thing.
Quarters: NCSU over Colorado
UW over Texas (here is my big upset pick of the weekend. The roth vs.
cara matchup is going to be sweet but roth will pull it off in the end.
if UW can find someone to moderately shut down tesa nichols...UW will
pull this one out.)
Cal over Brown
Stanford over Iowa - Stanford is much deeper than Iowa and when Sunday
rolls around Stanford will be much fresher.
Semis:
Stanford over Berkley easily- Stanford is going to rest enessa and
lauren casey a bit during this game.
NCSU over UW - Washington is tired now after the two really tight games
over two days.
Finals: NCSU over Stanford - I am AC biased;)
Lindsey
Neva Cherniavsky
> Stanford over Berkley easily- Stanford is going to rest enessa and
> lauren casey a bit during this game.
> NCSU over UW - Washington is tired now after the two really tight games
> over two days.
>
> Finals: NCSU over Stanford - I am AC biased;)
And NW biased! 3 out of 4 in the semis, can they do it?
mccants
pre-quarters teams/matchups and forgot that i thought pool D would go
according to seed unlike neva.
cal will play pre-quarters against cornell and win. then, they will
lose to ncsu. UW still upsets texas. Brown beats purdue in
pre-quarters but loses to colorado in quarters. colorado plays
stanford, ncsu plays UW. stanford and ncsu in the finals.
sorry, my computer usage time is limited right now and i posted in
haste.
alright...enough out of me.
Gambler
I'd want to watch if I wasn't going to be on the Stanford sideline all
tournament coaching:
(field numbers in parantheses)
Round 1:
Stanford v. MIT (3)
UW v. Cornell (4)
NC State v. Brown (1)
Iowa v. Texas A&M (2)
Colorado v. Dartmouth (5)
Berkeley v. Northwestern (6)
I'd stand between fields 4 and 5 to watch UW v. Cornell and Colorado v.
Dartmouth. I'd be interested in what the east coast schools have done
with their springs since their trips to the west coast in Febrauary and
early March. As the first game of the tournament, there shouldn't be
much advantage given to the depth of UW and Colorado, so the games
could be close. Neither is likely to be an upset, but there should be
some sweet plays all around.
Round 2:
Stanford v. Cornell (3)
UW v. MIT (5)
NC State v. Texas A&M (1)
Iowa v. Brown (2)
Texas v. Purdue (4)
Carleton v. Rutgers (6)
This round I'd split my time between the Iowa v. Brown game and the
Texas v. Purdue game to see how Iowa looks before going into the big
game and to see what Purdue's all about this year. Again, no upsets
this round, although expect Rebecca Simon from Brown to blow-up against
Iowa as the teams remain close through the first half.
Round 3:
Stanford v. Washington (3)
MIT v. Cornell (1)
Texas v. Rutgers (4)
Carleton v. Purdue (2)
Colorado v. Northwestern (5)
Berkeley v. Dartmouth (6)
The Stanford v. Washington game is the game to watch as the only 1 v. 2
match-up this round . Miranda Roth is sure to make some ridiculous
plays, but Stanford out-matches the rest of her squad and wins the game
by a bigger margin than their 1 point game at Regionals. The Berkeley
v. Dartmouth game comes in as a close second since it has the most
potential for an upset. Of course, it's nice that the Stanford-UW game
is on an adjacent field to the Carleton-Purdue game, so I'd probably
spend at least the first half in between fields 2 and 3 before heading
over to check out the Berkeley-Dartmouth game.
Round 4:
NC State v. Iowa (1)
Brown v. Texas A&M (2)
Dartmouth v. Northestern (6)
Nice that there aren't many games to distract from the epic NC State v.
Iowa game on field 1. This should be the game of the day, and I'd
expect the sidelines to be packed watching sweet play after sweet play
as the teams battle for the chance to avoid Stanford in quarters plus
the Saturday morning bye. I think it could go either way depending on
who has a good game; Iowa may be slightly deeper, but that might not
matter on the first day of the tournament. Plus, I hear the
Molly-Nicole combination for NC State is pretty tough to stop.
Round 5:
Texas v. Carleton (4)
Purdue v. Rutgers (3)
Colorado v. Berkeley (5)
I'd park myself inbetween fields 4 and 5 to watch the two 1 v. 2 games
happening this round. If it's windy, I'd expect Berkeley to play its
highly effective huck and zone strategy and Colorado would be forced to
abandon it's trap zone in favor of trying to stop Kath's hucks. If
it's not windy, Colorado has more of the advantage playing its spread
offense. Texas should be able to handle Carleton, although Syzygy
won't go down without a fight and will probably put together a sweet
run in the second half.
There you go. If I had to call my predicted upsets, I'd put Cornell
over MIT and a three-way tie in the D pool with Berkeley over Colorado,
Colorado over Dartmouth, and Dartmouth over Berkeley. Although, with
the point differential, the tie will end up going according to seed.