Anyone interested in a different ranking system click here:
http://herosports.com/rankings/college-d1-womens-softball
Tennessee is 8th in this one. UCLA is 16th. Arizona and Florida 1 and 2.
This system takes into account margin of victory.
LOL I feel the same! Take Washington as an example. They are three in RPI and 6 in top 10, but they've lost 10 games. At some point in time you would think that losing games would make you drop in the rankings even if the games you're losing are to the New York Yankees.
Here are the teams with their top 10 ranking followed by their RPI.
1, 1 Florida
2, 2 Arizona
3, 5 Texas A&M
4, 8 Florida St.
5, 4 Auburn
6, 3 Washington
7, 7 Oregon
8, 11 Minnesota
9, 10 Tennessee
10, 6 UCLA
-, 9 Baylor
The NCAA also released its "Top 10". How this relates to the RPI index, I don't know. Tennessee 9th in this one.
http://www.ncaa.com/news/softball/article/2017-04-22/ncaa-softball-championship-committee-announces-first-top-10-ranking
Top 10 ranking (record through games played by April 20)...
This is sensible and I agree with it. The team seemed surprised a couple of weeks ago when the streak first started to be brought up so I don't think they were focused on it at all.
But I do understand the point about the streak being brought up by the media. In every media interview of one...
On the video that was posted I see daylight between her toe and the ground. That's all I can say.
As to why an umpire wouldn't call it, I can only speculate. The two simplest answers are that they either aren't looking or are looking and don't see it.
Another fan once told me that...
Ralph always tinkers with the lineup especially the outfield. The infield not so much unless it's out of necessity or first base.
Next season Geer will be gone so it makes sense to get Holcomb some experience at other spots in the outfield. I also expect Vines to get more time in the outfield...
If Moss and Arnold pitch up to their capability and the bottom half of Tennessee's order comes through with some hits and runs, then Tennessee has a chance to win a couple of games against Florida.