30Duck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted 22 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 21 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 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCDuck1 No. 3 Share Posted 20 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 20 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 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB89 No. 5 Share Posted 20 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. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 6 Share Posted 8 hours ago I don't think teams decide to win or lose games. What if both teams decide to win, or lose the same game? Nothing about this year's team showed complacency or arrogance. In the series that ended the regular season, after a year as good as any pitcher in the country, Grein struggled. Sokolsky came in and cleaned it up. Sokolsky got the start against Michigan in the Playoff. Michigan won the tournament last year. Oregon's pitchers struggled again. It happens. Michigan would go on to win the championship. Beating UCLA, who Oregon beat 2 out of 3, this season. Michigan made play after play in the field against Oregon. They deserved the win. But I don't think that Oregon, with as many wins as No.1 Texas A & M, deserved to be No.16. I believe if the decision is theirs, the Lady Ducks will definitely win the Regional. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 7 Share Posted 6 hours ago From an article by Crepea at the RG: "Oregon entered Selection Sunday No. 17 in adjusted RPI and No. 18 in RPI. Two teams ahead of it in RPI did not receive national seeds while two teams behind it did and it came down to Oregon and Stanford for which got the last hosting opportunity . . . UO went 5-1 against RPI top 25 teams this season, tied for the fewest high-caliber wins among the 16 regional hosts, and 28-3 against teams outside the RPI top 100, tied for the most bad losses among those same teams. Oregon’s nonconference strength of schedule (157) was 15th among the 16 regional hosts." 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan2785 No. 8 Share Posted 6 hours ago On 5/12/2025 at 9:38 AM, 30Duck said: From an article by Crepea at the RG: "Oregon entered Selection Sunday No. 17 in adjusted RPI and No. 18 in RPI. Two teams ahead of it in RPI did not receive national seeds while two teams behind it did and it came down to Oregon and Stanford for which got the last hosting opportunity . . . UO went 5-1 against RPI top 25 teams this season, tied for the fewest high-caliber wins among the 16 regional hosts, and 28-3 against teams outside the RPI top 100, tied for the most bad losses among those same teams. Oregon’s nonconference strength of schedule (157) was 15th among the 16 regional hosts." This is why I said it's going to be very difficult to get a top 8 bid in this conference unless the conference significantly improves. You just have too many bad teams and not enough good teams, it's hard to win every game, and when you do lose to a mediocre team who played a bad schedule it just tanks your RPI. It's not Oregon's fault, and while I do understand why they aren't a top 8 seed, I still think they deserve better than 16. Looks like they will have to play an absolute monster of a non-conference schedule in the future. We don't even have the advantage of playing a rival in OSU who is good. It's sort of like Gonzaga in basketball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 9 Share Posted 5 hours ago Softball Ws and Ls. NCAA softball tournament winners, losers, snubs from 2025 selection show WWW.USATODAY.COM The 64-team field was set for the 2025 NCAA softball tournament. Here's a look at the winners, losers and snubs from Sunday's selection show: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 10 Share Posted 5 hours ago On 5/12/2025 at 1:05 PM, Jon Joseph said: Softball Ws and Ls. NCAA softball tournament winners, losers, snubs from 2025 selection show WWW.USATODAY.COM The 64-team field was set for the 2025 NCAA softball tournament. Here's a look at the winners, losers and snubs from Sunday's selection show: The author of this article argues that both UCLA and OBD were hosed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 11 Share Posted 3 hours ago On 5/12/2025 at 10:10 AM, Jon Joseph said: The author of this article argues that both UCLA and OBD were hosed. The author of the article is correct. The way for UCLA and OBD to prove it is to win. It would be nice if a few of the top seeds lost and UCLA and OBD ended up hosting Super Regionals. It's always good when A & M loses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman60 No. 12 Share Posted 2 hours ago Actually the team that really got hosed might be Texas A&M. They are then number 1 seed but if they and Oregon win their regionals A&M has to play a team that is much better then its 16th seed in the supers. Just like in the football playoffs, I believe that they should bracket teams 9-16 (in football 5-8) and then let the #1 seed pick where they want to go, then let #2 pick, etc. That way the coaches, who know who they match up better against, get a choice. Would football have picked a different bracket then what they got? Your darn right they would have, the teams involved should have more of a say then a committee. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cacker Guy No. 13 Share Posted 1 hour ago 7 of the top 8 seeds were from the SEC. If all 7 win their regionals, 7 of 8 superregionals will be at SEC sites. Is the SEC really that much better than everyone else? Why am I so skeptical? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
