I think the BWCT helped Hawai’i more then the WCCT helped Pepperdine. But the pre-Champ doesn’t define tie-breaker criteria, and lots of ‘body of work’ criteria factors go unmentioned and undefined such as treatment of SigWins/Losses, or how they evaluate the CommonOpp criteria, or how they calculate SoS. It’s assumed that H2H, SoS, CommonOpp, then Record are evaluated in that order of priority, but the pre-Champ manual doesn’t say and goes out of its way not to say, leaving it up to the committee apparently.
– We know H2H is a push. They didn’t play each other.
– SoS probably goes to Pepperdine, as they appear to have played fewer weak teams and fewer teams that scheduled weakly. The exact algorithm the committee uses isn’t published.
– CommonOpp. There are different ways of evaluating, and the pre-Champ doesn’t define. Mid-season I had it a push.
– Record (Region and Overall) I think the edge goes to Hawai’i, but it depends on if/how they use and define SigWins/Losses. They have lots of gray area to work with and do as they like.

The recent men’s precedent ignored H2H, SoS, RPI and focused on multiple components of Record and added up all those multiple components as if they were each a primary criteria, then referred to ‘holistic’ and ‘body of work’ factors. If the Beach committee goes that route, then they’ll define things in their data that no one had access to or knowledge of before or during the season, in order to achieve a result they won’t be required to explain, have reviewed, or be held accountable for.

On the positive side, seeding is less of a factor this year, as there isn’t a dominate team, they are all pretty close. UCLA and Hawai’i/Pepperdine are 1, 2/3, and there will likely be nothing to argue about re the order of #2 and #3 between Hawai’i and Pepperdine.

Does anyone know who makes up the committee and does it have equal representation of East and West representatives?

Would love to see this team win a National Championship.

Noblesol, what do you think Hawai’i’s chances are at getting a number 2 seed for the tournament over Pepperdine?