Southland Conference

Southland Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tie-Breaker Procedure

2/2/2012 10:29:00 PM

Tournament Seeding: Tournament seeding, 1 through 8, shall be based upon regular-season winning percentage regardless of divisional place in Conference competition.

Tie-breaker Procedure. All ties shall be broken in the order in which they occur, from top to bottom, in the standings.

(a) If two teams are tied and they are from different divisions, the winner of the game between the two tied teams shall be the higher seed.

(b) If two teams are tied and they are from the same division, the team with an advantage in head-to-head competition shall be the higher seed.

(c) If two teams remain tied, there will be a comparison of overall record against division teams only (10 divisional games).

(d) If two teams remain tied, there will be a *comparison of record against the highest ranked team(s) (based upon Conference winning percentage) in the division and proceeding through in order of divisional finish.

(e) If two teams remain tied, there will be a *comparison of record against the highest ranked team(s) (based upon Conference winning percentage) in the opposite division and proceeding through in order of divisional finish.

(f) If two teams remain tied, the higher seed will be chosen by draw.

(g) If three or more teams are tied, ties among divisional opponents will be broken by using steps (b) through (f) and the head-to-head results will be used to break ties between non-divisional teams. When three or more teams from the same division are tied step (b) will consist of a mini-round robin among those tied teams. At any point during the process of breaking ties among three or more teams that the number of tied teams are reduced to two, head-to-head competition would be used as the primary tiebreaker, followed by steps (c) through (f).

*Note: When comparing against the 'highest' ranked team(s) in either division, the comparison will be based upon how tied teams did against all teams in a given placement, rather than a team that wins a tiebreaker at another position. For example, if two teams are tied for fifth and two teams are tied for first, the head-to-head comparison would be how the fifth place teams did against the first place teams combined, and vice versa.

Unbreakable Ties. In the event a tie cannot be broken using game results, the team(s) involved in the tie rated best in The RPI Report by Collegiate Basketball News in effect on Saturday morning of the final day of regular-season shall be named the higher seed(s). If a tie still exists after evaluating the Collegiate Basketball News power rating, the tie shall be broken by a coin flip by the commissioner.

Tournament Champion/NCAA Automatic Qualification. The winner of the conference Tournament shall be the recipient of the Conference's NCAA automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's or Women's Basketball Championship.