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7:29	Brian Foley - I will begin answering questions at 8pm eastern time...Send in your questions and comments now and I will talk about them when we start the chat. If you have not seen the 2009 NCAA Regional brackets then check them out by clicking here.

7:59	[Comment From Johnny ] First of all, how was your feel on the selections?

8:01

Brian Foley - I know seeding teams is very tough every year but I find it hard to believe that a ninth place team in the Big 12 gets an at-large berth over Rhode Island. URI had some great victories this season and OK State really has done very little.

I don't like how UVA got sent to Irvine to play in a Regional for teh second straight year they are on the west coast....Come on....Irvine is a tough bracket though.

The NCAA also didn't give the Big West any credit this year which is shown by Irvine winning the conference by 5 games and Fullerton gets the number 2 overall seed over them??

8:03	[Comment From Ryan Rosenblatt ] Northeast teams are struggling to keep programs alive as is so the committee goes out and snubs a deserving URI team for a Big 12 teams that's mediocre at best. Way to go guys!

8:04	Colin Weber - Agree. Rhode Island put together a tournament resume. They won 17 games on the road and went 14-2 at home. If they had the weather to play more home games they would've been able to put together a stronger resume. I think URI was the biggest snub of the day.

8:04	Donald Boyles - I have to agree with Brian on this about Oklahoma State getting in over teams like Rhode Island. But every year there are teams that get left out.

8:04	Brian Foley - Agreed totally with this statement. Jim Foster is a great guy and even a better coach and he has seen his alma mater get its program cut in 1999. You can check out our interview with Foster by clicking here.

8:04	[Comment From Johnny ] yeah i would not be happy to be a rams fan right now, they got ripped off!

8:05	[Comment From Craig ] How did UC Irvine end up as the sixth seed? Seems like a bit of a slight.

8:06	Colin Weber - RPI and non-conference SOS. They had an outstanding conference record, but they did have a pretty low RPI for a national seed.

8:06	Donald Boyles - Seems a little odd that they get the 6th seed but Fullerton gets the 2 seed yet UC-Irvine wins their Conference by 5 games.

8:07	[Comment From tom r ] total snub of URI, do you think URI will consider upping the scholarship number for the Rams?

8:08	Brian Foley - The current goal of the URI program is to get the facility up to caliber. They play on a glorified high school field. They just put in fieldturf and are building a new press box I believe in my conversations with the SID over the last few months.

8:09	[Comment From Johnny ] i don't think teams like Baylor and Southern Miss should have got a bid both teams RPI is really low...

8:09	[Comment From Skip ] Dallas Baptist was right up there for biggest snub

8:10	Brian Foley - Baylor shouldn't even have been on the bubble this season with the talent on that squad. It is tough for Baptist to schedule at a competitive level without a conference affilation.

8:11	Colin Weber - Dallas Baptist put together a really nice RPI as an Independent. It's hard for them to put together a really strong schedule because they have to work around the conference schedules of all the other teams. Their SOS really held them back. It was over 100.

8:12	Brian Foley - How is Baptist expected to play a tough schedule with no conference affilation? I think that holds the program back some.

8:12	Colin Weber - It's a tough task. They played the in-state programs (Texas, Baylor, Texas A&M, TCU), but they did have a lot of game against the RPI 200+.

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