Games Mar. 2-8

[Plebe]

Rice prevails by 3 over ODU in a very back and forth game with lots of lead changes. What a mess the bubble is this year. ODU looked to be in decent shape just a week ago. Now two losses in a row and it’s anyone’s guess.

The bubble picture with the CUSA teams is a total mess. Could be a one bid league or could get 3 or 4 teams to sneak in.

 

[LETTERL]

In the Southland, Nicholls and Incarnate Word finished tied for 6th in the conference standings; Nicholls gets the #7 seed in next week's conference tournament since Incarnate Word won the only meeting between the two teams in the regular season. The Colonels will face either Stephen F. Austin or Abilene Christian in the first round of the conference tournament.

 

[Plebe]

In the Southland, Nicholls and Incarnate Word finished tied for 6th in the conference standings; Nicholls gets the #7 seed in next week's conference tournament since Incarnate Word won the only meeting between the two teams in the regular season. The Colonels will face either Stephen F. Austin or Abilene Christian in the first round of the conference tournament.

Actually that isn’t quite correct.

I’ve mentioned that the Southland has the most elaborate tiebreak procedures I’ve ever seen. Part of that is because they don’t use H2H as the tiebreaker if the teams in question played only once and the home team won. That was the case here, as Nicholls lost a heartbreaker in San Antonio when Incarnate Word hit a last second 3.

The next step in the tiebreaker is record against other teams whom both played twice. Long story short, it came down to Nicholls’ recent win over 5th place New Orleans, which made them 1-1 vs. UNO compared to UIW’s 0-2 record. So Nicholls actually gets the 6 seed

 

[Plebe]

In the Southland, Nicholls and Incarnate Word finished tied for 6th in the conference standings; Nicholls gets the #7 seed in next week's conference tournament since Incarnate Word won the only meeting between the two teams in the regular season. The Colonels will face either Stephen F. Austin or Abilene Christian in the first round of the conference tournament.

Having said all that ... the next creative twist is that the Southland doesn’t use a typical 8-team draw. The top 2 seeds get a double bye to the semifinals, and seeds 3 and 4 get a single bye to the quarterfinals. That means that the 6 and 7 seeds meet in the first round — which would be Nicholls and Incarnate Word, so it didn’t really matter who won the tiebreaker after all