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Women’s Soccer Will Be Sweating It Out on Selection Monday for NCAA Bid

UCF Women Soccer Loses 4-1 to BYU at Big 12 Semi-Final

By Eric Lopez and Bryson Turner
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Noah Goldberg

UCF Knights Women’s Soccer’s inaugural Big 12 Championship run came to an end on Wednesday night after losing to #7 BYU, 4-1. The Knights have dealt with injuries all season and were without Chloe Netzel, who scored the game-winning goal on Monday night’s win over TCU due to food poisoning.

BYU will play Texas in the Big 12 championship match. Both teams along with Texas Tech are likely locks for the NCAA Tournament.

The Knights (10-7-1, 5-4-1 Big 12) now must wait until Selection Monday at 4pm to find out if the season will extend into the NCAA Tournament or come to an end.

Going into the Big 12 Tournament, UCF entered with a 46 RPI and the #6 seed against the #3 seed TCU. In a back-and-forth affair, UCF won a wild 3-2 game on Netzel’s game-winning goal.

The win gave the Knights a signature win that was missing from the resume, but will it be enough?

Here is a breakdown of the pros and cons of UCF’s resume that includes their best wins, which are defined as wins against the top 50 RPI teams. We also include the schedule strength ranking, the RPI, and the KPI, which is a new ranking tool the committee can use this year.

The following 15 teams figure to be in the mix for the last 10 spots in the NCAA Tournament:

NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament Bubble Teams

Team Conference RPI Ranking KPI Ranking Avg RPI Win SOS Best Win(s) Conf Rank
Team Conference RPI Ranking KPI Ranking Avg RPI Win SOS Best Win(s) Conf Rank
Pepperdine WCC 40 51 179 56th Portland (65th) 8th
Arizona State pac-12 47 48 136 45th USC 4th
Texas A&M SEC 49 38 130 16th Alabama, Mississippi State, Tennessee 1st
Providence Big East 42 39 165 72nd Brown 6th
Michigan Big Ten 50 36 100 24th Notre Dame 3rd
Indiana Big Ten 38 41 165 116th Rutgers, Michigan 3rd
UCF Big 12 45 56 148 31st TCU 7th
LSU SEC 52 45 128 15th Georgia, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Texas 1st
SMU AAC 43 42 150 41st Tennessee 10th
TCU Big 12 54 148 68th Texas A&M 7th
UConn Big East 48 44 149 74th Providence 6th
James Madison Sun Belt 39 46 145 29th South Alabama 9th
Rutgers Big Ten 37 34 126 25th Ohio State,Providence, Michigan 3rd
Colorado pac-12 55 40 119 5th Wisconsin 5th
South Carolina SEC 36 31 142 115th Georgia,Texas AM 1st

UCF hopes the win against TCU, A Draw against against the top ten ranked Big 12 regular season champion Texas Tech will be enough to get in. But it very likely that the Knights will be either one of the last couple of teams in the NCAA Tournament or one of the first four teams left out, which will depend on the following questions on Monday.

  • Does Pepperdine get in as 3rd WCC Team?
  • Does James Madison get in as a 3rd Sun Belt team?
  • Does SMU get in as a 2nd AAC team?
  • Do both UConn and Providence get In ?
  • Does Arizona State get in despite losing last 4 matches?

UCF needs it least 2 if not 3 of these answers to be a No. The Knights hope the results will help them and not burst their bubble.

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