No. You have it right.With the football team, that's four top five programs. Am I missing anyone?
Wrestling!!!!!With the football team, that's four top five programs. Am I missing anyone?
PSU visits Maryland this afternoon, @ 3 pm EDT. The game will be televised on BTN.
I wasn't able to watch the game. Sounds as though it was a pretty good one. PSU fell to Maryland 2-1 in the 2nd OT. Ugh.
PSU's next contest is their final home match, against Rutgers, on Friday, Oct. 20, at 5 pm.
Have a friend who played field hockey for Penn State. Her daughter is a great player and the mom advised her against Penn State as she wasn't happy with Char as a coach and didn't want her daughter playing for her. Daughter is headed to another B1G school. I am disappointed as I would have loved seeing her daughter wearing blue and white.
Question on helmets, why are there no helmets in women's field hockey? I was watching a match over the weekend and one of the girls had a bandaged wound over the eye which would have been prevented with a helmet and face guard. They swing those heavy sticks around with force, just like lacrosse and ice hockey.
Penn State, the No. 3 seed, just beat Maryland, the No. 2 seed, 3-2 in the Big Ten semi-final.
Penn State, the No. 3 seed, just beat Maryland, the No. 2 seed, 3-2 in the Big Ten semi-final.
More than "questionable". That was a crap call all the way.They played a really good game, overcoming a questionable penalty corner that allowed Maryland to tie it up 2-2 with ten minutes remaining.
They now get Michigan for the championship. The Wolverines have been an absolute juggernaut for the last ten weeks. They have a 15 game winning streak going and have posted shutouts in 11 of those 15 games (one of which was a 3-0 shellacking of PSU here in State College).
I've said it all year long, but Michigan, Maryland, and PSU are all Final Four material. Unfortunately, the ACC has three teams you could say the same thing about (Duke, Virginia, and North Carolina). Here's hoping the NCAA sets their brackets up so that we can get some ACC/B10 battles rather than having the schools face teams within their own conference.
Ouch. The loss really cost PSU. They wound up in #1 seed UConn's bracket. The Huskies are undefeated and PSU will have to knock them off in Storrs (assuming that they get past Delaware in a rematch). Michigan, by virtue of their win, got a 3-seed and gets to host 1st and 2nd round games. They'll face Syracuse, then the winner of Louisville/NW. That's the spot that PSU likely would have had had they won the game.
I didn't watch the NCAA tournament show, but some of the seeds are rather curious. Duke lost in the ACC tourney semifinal to Louisville. Yet they got the #2 seed in the tournament. UNC won the ACC tourney, and ends up with the #4 seed.
While the NCAA only seeds the top 4, typically 4 is in the bracket with 5, 3 is in the bracket with 6, 2 is in the bracket with 7, and 1 is in the bracket with 8. If you follow from that, then the seeding is as follows:
1. UConn
2. Duke
3. UNC
4. Michigan
5. UVA
6. NW
7. Maryland
8. PSU
With only 18 teams in NCAAs, there aren't a lot of easy wins for any team.
You can see the full NCAA bracket at THIS LINK.
You correctly stated that UNC was the four seed in your post but you placed them third in your list. Michigan got the three seed. Your seedings should read.
good catch. thanks