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BE Regular Season tie breaker

Donyell 360 said:
Thanks. I see that now. I thought it would make sense to punish the team that lost to the lower seed, but instead they are rewarding the team that beat the higher seed twice. I suppose either way could make sense but thanks for straightening me out!
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That's what you get for thinking it would make sense
 
CashewCrew said:
It seems like that tie breaker rewards the team for losing to a worse team? Doesn't make sense at all.
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This is pretty much the universal tiebreaker in college sports. Sometimes in a sport like volleyball, there will be another layer where they’ll take sets won head to head - so if you won 3-0 and lost 3-2, you’d win the tiebreaker by being better head to head. But point differential in hoops or run differential in baseball would encourage running up the score.

The tiebreaker works better when it’s lower in the standings - if you tied for fourth (and split head to head), and one of you beat the first place team, then that team wins the tiebreaker since it has a better win. The tiebreaker for fourth is often the tiebreaker just to get into the conference tournament for sports where not every team goes.

So there’s a lot at stake in those tiebreakers - whereas two teams that tie for first are both going anyway. Once this system came into place - leagues wanted to be consistent, and it was just sort of how it evolved in college sports.
 
Kemba15 said:
I know the default is that we all want the 1 seed in the BET, but is it weird that I’d feel more confident against Nova than Seton Hall — and maybe even Providence or Creighton? However, Hall could fall to the 6, so there's lots to be determined still. I also feel like we're less likely to come out slow in a night game (2 seed) than @ noon (1 seed) in the Thursday quarterfinals lol.
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That noon game after five days off, against a team that's already played, is a tough game to win.
 
the hangover GIF
 
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If a series is split, they should total the points between both games and the team with more total points get the tie breaker. Idk why this isn’t done. It fees fair for the team who won their half of the split by more points to get the tie breaker. Plus, it’s so much simpler than:

the hangover GIF
 
Win Saturday, win the Big East Tournament as a 1 or 2
Seed, enter the NCAAs at 31-3 and a #1
seed and I’m good!
 
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Deepster said:
And PC finishes the season Saturday at Georgetown. Georgetown beat them in Providence 81-78 on 1/24. Needing PC to win that game pretty much guarantees they lay an egg.
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You do know that fryers don’t lay eggs, right? They’re too young and tender!
 
Tiebreaker should be margin of victory.
 
Hoyas up 8 at the half at MSG.

Tiebreaker 20 minutes from being winning a game in Wisconsin.
 
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We are losing the tiebreaker in real time -- Creighton is pulling away from Butler in the second half, while Providence is spitting the bit early against Marquette.

We're gonna need Seton Hall to win on Friday to give us a chance at the #1 seed.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
We are losing the tiebreaker in real time -- Creighton is pulling away from Butler in the second half, while Providence is spitting the bit early against Marquette.

We're gonna need Seton Hall to win on Friday to give us a chance at the #1 seed.
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Yeah, this isn't looking good. Creighton looks like they have this one in the bag - PC losing by double digits already and don't trust them to win two.

Honestly, might be better off - getting a banged up Nova really not that much harder than Hall in the semis. And it gets us a Q1 in the event any Florida nonsense comes up. Bring it. SH played us tougher than Nova did collectively anyway.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
We are losing the tiebreaker in real time -- Creighton is pulling away from Butler in the second half, while Providence is spitting the bit early against Marquette.

We're gonna need Seton Hall to win on Friday to give us a chance at the #1 seed.
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Why do you care about the #1 seed?
 
From a pride perspective, I want UConn to win the outright regular season title and be the #1 seed, but from a selfish game-watching perspective, the #2 seed would actually be better for me, since the first game would be on TV at a time I can actually watch live.
 
It all hinges on SJU at SHU tomorrow. If St. John's wins, they are the 1-seed. If Seton Hall wins, UConn is the 1-seed. UConn's result doesn't matter for seeding in any scenario.

 
Kemba15 said:
I know the default is that we all want the 1 seed in the BET, but is it weird that I’d feel more confident against Nova than Seton Hall — and maybe even Providence or Creighton? However, Hall could fall to the 6, so there's lots to be determined still. I also feel like we're less likely to come out slow in a night game (2 seed) than @ noon (1 seed) in the Thursday quarterfinals lol.
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Also , one more small caveat: in case we do get the second seed we get to play at 7 PM Thursday night and also get the later game on Friday, which is good for those people who have to work in the daytime - if they’re the #1 seed , Thursday’s game would be at noon. Terrible time.
 
Leebo said:
From a pride perspective, I want UConn to win the outright regular season title and be the #1 seed, but from a selfish game-watching perspective, the #2 seed would actually be better for me, since the first game would be on TV at a time I can actually watch live.
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Let it be known I was pulling for SHU today.

But I'm not sad that I'll be able to watch all of our games in the BET live
 
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