To be honest, I think we squared more balls up than Wisconsin did, but sometimes they don’t find gaps and holes and sometimes bloops and weak grounders do. That’s softball. When you are playing a fairly evenly-matched opponent, and you have one of those days, you are probably not going to win. That said, when the opposing pitcher is dealing the onus is on the hitters to be more disciplined, and smarter about how they approach their at bats. We saw that against Williams, but against Schwartz at her best, we could only muster one run in two games.
We hold the #35 position in RPI, while Wisconsin moves up to #36. It would be really difficult for the committee to leave either of these teams out of the tournament, given the number of Top 25 and Top 50 wins they have compared to other teams on the bubble.