Women’s DI tournament projection: Oct 30

Women’s DI tournament projection: Oct 30
by Travis Clark
October 30, 2014

Believe it or not, conference tournament time is already here for the Division I women’s soccer season.

Over the next week and a half, automatic bids will be clinched and the field of 64 will take shape as the race for Boca Raton and the College Cup hits a new gear. It’s also an apt juncture to take a stab at what the field might look like if it were selected today.

Below is a projection of the field of 64, including potential conference automatic bid winners and at-large bids, with each program’s current RPI (from Monday's release) listed in parentheses. At the bottom are the 16 teams and their projected seed.

Projected Conference Auto Bids (31)

America East: Hartford (122)

American Athletic: UCF (16)

Atlantic 10: La Salle (21)

ACC: Florida State (7)

Atlantic Sun: Florida Gulf Coast(w) (37)

Big 12: West Virginia (6)

Big East: DePaul (24)

Big Sky: Montana (107)

Big South: Liberty (106)

Big Ten: Penn State (3)

Big West: Cal Poly (126)

CAA: Northeastern (62)

CUSA: North Texas (70)

Horizon: Valparaiso (134)

Ivy League: Harvard (42)

MAAC: Monmouth (113)

MAC: Buffalo (47)

MVC: Illinois State (55)

MWC: San Diego State (45)

NEC: Fairleigh Dickinson (170)

OVC: SIUE (183)

Pac-12: UCLA (2)

Patriot League: Colgate (29)

SEC: Texas A&M (4)

Southern: Samford (88)

Southland: Stephen F. Austin (71)

SWAC: Howard (298)

Summit: Denver (181)

Sun Belt: South Alabama (81)

West Coast: BYU (31)

WAC: Seattle (124)

Projected At-Large bids (33)

Stanford (1)

North Carolina (5)

Virginia (8)

Florida (9)

Texas Tech (10)

South Carolina (11)

Wisconsin (12)

Washington (13)

Washington State (14)

Notre Dame (15)

Kansas (17)

Pepperdine (18)

California (19)

Virginia Tech (20)

Kentucky (22)

Arizona (23)

Connecticut (25)

Clemson (26)

Auburn (27)

South Florida (28)

Colgate (29)

Texas (30)

Oklahoma State (32)

Michigan (33)

Missouri (34)

Rutgers (35)

Arkansas (36)

Georgia (38)

Arizona State (40)

Georgetown (41)

Memphis (43)

Alabama (49)

Colorado (51)

Seeds

No. 1 Seeds

Stanford, UCLA*, Penn State*, North Carolina

No. 2 Seeds

Texas A&M*, West Virginia*, Florida State*, Virginia

No. 3 Seeds

Florida, Texas Tech, South Carolina, Wisconsin

No. 4 Seeds

Washington, Washington State, Notre Dame, UCF*

*-Conference winner

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