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I meant to get these projections out sooner but better late than never.

Usually you figure that the first 15 to 20 teams will try to find a regional where they think they can win the whole thing but then the rest are making picks off based who else is in the regional so they can try to pick up at least one quality win. By the time you get to the bottom of the barrel you have to what’s left which usually are the toughest spots that everyone else is avoiding.

Here are the regional hosts with a notation about whether the matches will be played indoors or outdoors along with who the hosts will have to replace next season:

1. Cal (outdoors) – replace #2 and #3 (Fabikova/Chi)
2. Florida (outdoors) – replace #3 (Morgan)
3. North Carolina – replace #2, #4, #6 (Kay/Vialle/Dai)
4. Vanderbilt – replace #2 and #4 (Altick/Colton)
5. Ohio State – return everyone
6. Georgia – replace #3 (Garcia)
7. Oklahoma State – replace #4 (Laurente)
8. Pepperdine (outdoors) – replace #5 and #6 (Cutura/Capannolo)
9. Miami FL (outdoors) – replace #1 (Wagner)
10. Michigan – replace #1 (Yurovsky)
11. Auburn (outdoors) – replace #3 and #5 (Burgmans/de Man)
12. Virginia – replace #1, #2, and #3 (Collins/Elbaba/Nauta)
13. Duke – replace #1 (Capra)
14. Texas Tech (outdoors) – return everyone
15. Georgia Tech – replace #4 and #6 (Woodard/Prokhnevska)

South Carolina will almost definitely go to Virginia because of how much Virginia has to replace but after that it’s pretty wide open. There aren’t a lot of teams that have to replace much and most of the ones that are losing players will reload with strong recruiting classes. 

There is also a tab below that has the my projections in grid format.

All the picks will show up on the ITA’s page as they come in and I’ll have a recap tomorrow afternoon.