College softball selection tonight

[NumeroUno]

Tonight, Sunday , 7pm pacific time

NCAA Softball Selection Special

ESPNU

Channel 208 ON Direct TV

Post your TV signal provider and what channel ts on

[NumeroUno]

It is amazing how the same politics you see in rec ball all star picking is alive and well in the NCAA

Here are the brackets

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/softball/d1

[as the world turns]

The Harrisonburg Regional is laughable.

[jonriv]

There will always be long-shot conference tourney winners and winners of weaker conferences along with "questionable" at-large bids. As long as it's a system that pits organizations against each other there will always be politics.

Unless you want a tournament of just conference winners or only certain conferences represented there will always be be these variables. Which IMO makes it interesting

[artomatic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asCNP7pxhuA&feature=youtu.be

[NumeroUno]

What is the reason that all conferences don't have a play off?

[AlwaysImprove]

I do not know the specific answer. But could venture some theories why:
From http://www.ncaa.com/news/softball/article/2015-05-01/2015-division-i-softball-conference-championships-automatic
Conferences without conference championships: Big 12, Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, West Coast

One could infer that all are from west coast, minus Big 12. West coast schools tend to be on the Quarters system vs Semester system for the rest of the country. For schools on semesters they are finishing finals as their conference tournaments start. For schools in quarter system they would just be heading into their busy time

Some argue that in strong conferences, league championships only serve to guarantee losses against strong conference opponents. Those losses coming right at the time the committee is deciding seeding. Ultimately hurting the overall number of teams a conference may get into the tournament.
http://robocoach.websitetoolbox.com/post/hypothetical-pac10-tournament-4691130

Conferences that do not play conference championship, often have a round robin, so if you look at their schedule they are often pushing hard through conference weekend to get all of their games on the schedule. They also can declare a league champion, since every team has played every team.

This year Pitt winning ACC definitely put some of the bubble ACC teams, Virginia Tech and Louisville in a bit of a bind. Committee ended up placing 7 teams from ACC in the tournament. Some might question that. Since that is the same number as Pac 12, it may be argued, at least for ACC that how their tournament went ended up getting an extra team into NCAA.

[as the world turns]

So who will get the worst 2 and BBQ pounding?

[jtat32]

What is the reason that all conferences don't have a play off?

I've never been a fan of conference playoffs for any sport. Isn't that what the conference schedule is for?

[Fastpitch4Life]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asCNP7pxhuA&feature=youtu.be

Is that the coolest, or what? Goosebumps time!