NCAA Regionals - Update - We're doing the Friday 15 show live at 3:30 pm ET

Confirmed. Leaning to the right again and ties up almost caught

Based on this rant, I'm gonna guess MANY years ago

I was thinking the same....the longer people stick with Valby the more she steps on the gas but if you lay back a little she might not push quite as hard and if you can then accellerate I don't think she hast the fastest finish

At 4K, Notre Dame 50 points up on Wisconsin. Places #1, 5, 7, 8 and 16.

Top 4 Great Lake team spots seem to be right in line with projections. No upset seems to be coming in

At 6k though, the top 40 are all within about 6 seconds, so points could still shift dramatically.

Butler comes from 4th to 2nd between 4 and 6 K.

ND's lead is getting mighty thin.

Nonetheless, at this point in time, it appears one will need to be in 15min (or sub-15) shape to contend…and she might overstep.

Points between the top 4 teams at this point don't mean anything. Wisco in 4th place has their 6th man within 5 seconds of the race lead.

True, dat. At 6K only two seconds between #1 and #30

I'll just quote the Leonard Cohen song: "I ache in the places where I used to play."

And Butler's International Brigade forges into the lead at 8K

This is why Tuohy might want to hang back a bit and watch the Bama duo press Valby and burn each other out. But Bama’s highest team placement would probably be better served hanging with Tuohy.

SIDENOTE:

HUGE ”Thank you!” to:

Runninglane (for giving us coverage of the South Regional)

OKState.com (for giving us coverage of the Midwest Regional)

Other regions? REALLY? How hard is it? What in the literal f*ck? Example: Southeast Region: You KNOW you have the top women’s team potentially in the country, with the returning Individual NCAA Women’s Champion, and you don’t cover your region’s event? Shame, shame, shame.

Wish they could at least offer a janky drone stream on Youtube or something.

ANYTHING is better than nothing.

It’s 2023 folks. Stream your event.

From Jonathan's blog onn the front page:

Here is your women's NCAA field.

The real drama out West came farther down the results. Oregon State women were projected to finish 4th in the region and qualify at-large. But OSU had an awful day and finished 9th. That opened up an extra at-large spot, which goes to...Harvard.
That means there were two differences from our pre-regional projections. One is that Boston College surprisingly auto-qualified in the Northeast. That meant Harvard needed an at-large spot, and they took the one that would have gone to Oregon State. The other surprise was Texas A&M taking 2nd in the South Central instead of Tulane. That means the Aggie women are going dancing for the first time in 23 years.

Full field below. Remember, these are unofficial projections based on Bo Waggoner's computer program -- which has traditionally been very accurate:

Notre Dame
Wisconsin
Georgetown
Penn State
Oklahoma State
Iowa State
Northern Arizona
BYU
Syracuse
Boston College
Tennessee
Florida
Arkansas
Texas A&M
NC State
Furman
Stanford
Oregon
Washington
Michigan State
Virginia
CBU
Ole Miss
Alabama
Lipscomb
Utah
Colorado
Utah Valley
Colorado St.
Providence
Harvard

Oregon State misses out with 14 points
Here's the output for the final at-large spot on the women's side from Bo's program. Oregon State had 14 points -- an enormous number -- but because they finished so far down the field at the West Regional (9th), they were blocked by a bunch of teams without points and won't be going to NCAAs.

Teams under consideration by points:
4 Harvard
1 Michigan, New Mexico, Penn, Wake Forest
0 LSU, Gonzaga, Georgia Tech, Northwestern
Others with points: Oregon State (14), North Carolina (3), UCLA (2), Duke (2), Portland (2), Columbia (1), Boston University (1), Connecticut (1), SMU (1), Ohio State (1)
31: Harvard (#4 Northeast) is selected, has losses to (Nuttycombe Invite) Oregon State;
Published: 11/10/2023 01:39pm
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Women FINAL projections
Stanford has topped Oregon at the West regional which means all nine regionals are complete.

Butler clearly came out mad today. Wisconsin will need to regroup for Nats if they want to try to sneak into a 3rd on the podium. Their 4/5 didn't even run too poorly time wise, just Butler coming out hot this race.

God, please give the bid to Michigan State or even Wyoming over Georgetown. Atlantic schools underperform EVERY SINGLE TIME they get a bid