BIG BILL FAN Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 The NCAA announced it's field of 64 for this years women's bracket and SLU did not receive a bid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 I'd have to review the field to give an opinion ... but they played a fairly strong schedule. Official Billikens.com sponsor of H. Waldman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseugnekillib Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 8 of the 10 ACC women's teams made the final 64 field and two (maryland and va tech) of the 8 had losing ACC conference records. Maryland ended their ACC season 3-4-2 and 7-6-4 overall. For the season, Maryland was outscored by their opponents 22-19. I believe the break-up of the C-USA left SLU with no one from its conference office fighting for the Billiken's bid. Will it happen in basketball as well? Probably. The A10 can't get here soon enough. btw, SLU's women finished at 15-6-1 and 9-1-0 in C-USA. They outscored their opponents 38-15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 The flip side to the argument is that C-USA was very weak this year, and SLU also didn't beat their only few good non-conference opponents. It doesn't help that SLU was pre-season not one of the favorites to win conference, and that they lost they conference tourney on their home field. SLU womens soccer does not have a good conference reputation and the program itself has a reputation of a borderline NCAA team. When given an opportunity to make the tourney, they haven't done much with it before. For several years now SLU has a nice second tier D 1 team. They need to add a few players to get them over the hump. With that said they probably should have made the tourney and were one of last one's out. But even their players were iffy sounding before the announcement. Not a lot of confidence for getting in. SLU's AD should be creating a big storm over this and I hope to read articles where the new AD has gotten nasty with the NCAA for their snub. Good time for her to make her presence felt right off the bat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 I don't think she'll "nasty" but she'll definitely say something about it. She conducted a phone interview with Bernie on Friday from the women's semifinal and was really talking up the women's soccer program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 They never had a very strong computer rating. It was I suppose possible they get in for "intangible" reasons but people seem to be forgetting that, unlike men's soccer, there are over three hundred teams playing women's soccer (it is much harder to get a bid). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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