30Duck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted 9 hours ago Breaking: Ducks to host softball regionals May 16-18 - Daily Emerald DAILYEMERALD.COM The bracket for the 2025 NCAA Division I Softball Championship was revealed on Sunday. The No. 16-seeded Oregon Ducks... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan2785 No. 2 Share Posted 8 hours ago Get the feeling it will be nearly impossible to get a top 8 bid in the B1G, just a horrible conference for baseball and softball. The opening round loss hurts of course, but geez, they're 47-7, they were ranked 4th going into the conference tourney and they end up 16th!? That's horrible! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCDuck1 No. 3 Share Posted 7 hours ago Spartan2785, If a team and its' coaching staff want to be ranked highly, then win when expected and when unexpected, regardless of conference. Just because our Lady Ducks team beat Michigan softball three times when we played them, that is no guarantee of a win in the conference tournament. I believe UM beat UCLA in the conference finals. UM recognized the way into the NCAA Tourney (for them) was to win the BIG tourney, and they did! That same freeway was wide open for our Lady Ducks; they chose through their Prep and play the off-ramp. That was a terrible decision! But, they chose it! Now, let's see whether they can get out of their own regional tourney and win a super regional. Then, forget about the world series, and just making it there. Prepare to play to win it! If they play as a team, this team could win it. Thanks and VR, KCDuck1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan2785 No. 4 Share Posted 7 hours ago On 5/11/2025 at 7:19 PM, KCDuck1 said: Spartan2785, If a team and its' coaching staff want to be ranked highly, then win when expected and when unexpected, regardless of conference. Just because our Lady Ducks team beat Michigan softball three times when we played them, that is no guarantee of a win in the conference tournament. I believe UM beat UCLA in the conference finals. UM recognized the way into the NCAA Tourney (for them) was to win the BIG tourney, and they did! That same freeway was wide open for our Lady Ducks; they chose through their Prep and play the off-ramp. That was a terrible decision! But, they chose it! Now, let's see whether they can get out of their own regional tourney and win a super regional. Then, forget about the world series, and just making it there. Prepare to play to win it! If they play as a team, this team could win it. Thanks and VR, KCDuck1 Punishing a team for losing one game and going from around 7-5 or so in the rankings to 16 seems excessive to me. If Oregon was in the SEC they would have dropped like 2 spots or so. Of course you want to win every game, but it's one game against a team that eventually won the tournament, they got hot apparently at the right time, it just seems ridiculous to me when you have the 8 seed with 15 losses to Oregon's 7. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB89 No. 5 Share Posted 7 hours ago According to the seedings the committee felt Oregon would have been the 10th best team in the SEC and the 4th best team in the ACC. Personally, I think that is BS. Oregon went 5-1 against #5 FSU (2-0), #7 Tennessee (1-0) and #9 UCLA (2-1). FSU and Tennessee couldn't even score a run against the Ducks. Oregon deserved a much higher seed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
