Women's basketball tournament tie-breakers....

[thekimmer]

Are the SEC tourney tiebreakers for women the same as men?

Which are, 1) Head-to-head 2) Record vs the #1 seed down through #14 as necessary.

If so, then by my reckoning if we beat LSU on thursday we would get the 1 seed no matter what happens on Sunday since we beat the likely 3 seed UK and USC lost to them.

Don't get me wrong, I know we have bigger ambitions than the SEC tourney and I do not want to lose to USC. I am just trying to figure out logistics for attending the tournament and knowing what our seed will be will as soon as possible will help with that tremendously.

 

[MSUDC11]

That’s correct. If Kentucky is 3 then we would be be the 1 seed in that scenario.

The main thing we don’t want is for a potential tiebreaker to come down to Missouri, since we lost to them and SC didn’t. So we need for Kentucky to finish ahead of Mizzou, and we should be ok there since UK has a two game lead with two left and the head to head advantage. The only thing that could throw that off possibly is a big multi team tiebreaker that I don’t feel like taking the time to sort through since it feels unlikely.

Basically it comes down to this: if we beat LSU and Kentucky beats A&M on Thursday OR Carolina loses at Auburn, that clinches the 1 seed for us.

On a side note, that loss to Mizzou keeps looking more and more strange. They are 0-2 with two losses to unranked teams since they beat us. It truly was just one awful game from us and a great one from them.

 

[thekimmer]

That's what I thought. The only pathway I see for USC to take the 1, if we beat LSU, is for them, uga & mizzou to win out and UK to lose out. Not a very likely scenario but possible I suppose. Bottom line I suppose is USC would need a good bit of help but our fate is in our own hands.

We are for sure playing for a share of the crown on senior nite. I know vic kinda doesn't like that and attributed part of our poor performance against UT a couple of years ago to the emotions of Sr nite activities.

 

[61dawg]

That's what I thought. The only pathway I see for USC to take the 1, if we beat LSU, is for them, uga & mizzou to win out and UK to lose out. Not a very likely scenario but possible I suppose. Bottom line I suppose is USC would need a good bit of help but our fate is in our own hands.

We are for sure playing for a share of the crown on senior nite. I know vic kinda doesn't like that and attributed part of our poor performance against UT a couple of years ago to the emotions of Sr nite activities.

I'm sure he will do just like last year. All Sr. night activities will take place AFTER the game.

 

[patdog]

I'm sure he will do just like last year. All Sr. night activities will take place AFTER the game.

This is how all Sr. nights should be. It's a big emotional distraction before the game.