So we're just assuming they don't get a bid?

The brackets are out and the Bobcats failed to make it to the dance.

We should be in.

Last team in is Seton Hall with an RPI of 47.

OHIO out with an RPI of 44. East bias strikes again.

Seton hall Made the Big East Championship game. Probably helped their cause. Interesting to see how many teams OHIO beat and to whom they lost. The AVCA coaches rankings of top 25 OHIO was in till the last 3 weeks and yet still got votes after they dropped out. It is puzzling how deep the committee went into the B10 and ignored the 6 loss record OHIO put up against teams that made the cut. No doubt that Northwestern loss would look better as a win

This isn't new. I told my sister, who follows this closely and is a big Penn St fan, that there is a general bias toward Big 10 teams. She was hard pressed to disagree.

I may be misquoting Ryan from several years ago when we failed to win the MAC tourney, then went out and beat a Notre Dame team that went to the NCAA in our final regular season game, and still failed to go to The Dance. Ryan said something to the effect that if you didn't have an RPI of 40 or better you probably were not gonna get an at large bid. I am not sure if he qualified it by saying if you were a MAC team...but it's pretty obvious that as is the case for hoops, MAC volleyball teams will rarely receive a break from the committee.

Big10 is one of the top VB conferences in the country, that bias is probably well deserved.