If I were Iowa/ISU, I would be sooooooo pissed, I don’t get why they don’t flip a coin and let one of them join the other session? It’s not like they’d have to travel somewhere new last minute or anything. I just really wanna see that Iowa floor rotation in the regional final, what a way for them to be screwed after what has to have been the best season for the program in god knows how long. I hope they manage to qualify some individuals to NCAAs at the least.
Like Spencer has said for years, what is the point of being ranked #17 when you essentially get treated as equivalent to #28. They should at least be seeding teams 17-36 so that the regionals have some semblance of fairness. NC State in the playoff despite being #26, plus Mizzou/EMU having a 1000x easier path to regional final than teams ranked way higher than them even before Auburn withdrew, are the most ridiculous to me, but the whole process needs an overhaul.
Get rid of the damn geographical placements at least, the distribution of D1 programs is such that we always end up with clusterfucks like the Alabama regional, not to mention there are so few schools w/WAG compared to other NCAA sports that the geographical placement makes zero sense. /rant lol