Big East Tournament Bracket (Thru Feb 26th)

[milksteak]

Current Standings:

1. Villanova LOCK (14-3)
2. Butler LOCK (12-5)
3. Creighton (10-7)
4. Seton Hall (9-8)
5. Providence (9-8)
6. Xavier (8-8)
7. Marquette (8-8)
8. St. John's LOCK (7-10)
9. Georgetown LOCK (5-12)
10. DePaul LOCK (2-15)

Here are the upper and lower limits for each unlocked team (to the best of my knowledge):
-Creighton: 3rd-6th
-Seton Hall: 3rd-7th
-Providence: 3rd-7th
-Xavier: 3rd-7th
-Marquette: 3rd-7th

EDIT: Fixed St. John's and Marquette

[Hall2012]

Current Standings:

1. Villanova LOCK (14-3)
2. Butler LOCK (12-5)
3. Creighton (10-7)
4. Seton Hall (9-8)
5. Providence (9-8)
6. Xavier (8-8)
7. Marquette (8-8)
8. St. John's (7-10)
9. Georgetown LOCK (5-12)
10. DePaul LOCK (2-15)

Here are the upper and lower limits for each unlocked team (to the best of my knowledge):
-Creighton: 3rd-6th
-Seton Hall: 3rd-7th
-Providence: 3rd-7th
-Xavier: 3rd-7th
-Marquette: 3rd-8th
-St. John's: 7th-8th

Crazy that in the last week of the season, half the league still has a chance to finish 3rd. And prior to last night, none of those same 5 had clinched a 1st round bye in the BET.

[MUWarrior1090]

Small nitpick. Marquette can't get the 8 seed. Worst case, they would be 8-10 tied with SJU for 7th/8th. Marquette would get the 7 seed based on their win over Nova. There cannot be a 3-way tie for the 8th spot.

Also, SJU lost twice to X, so X would win the tiebreaker with SJU as well. I believe SJU is locked into the 8 spot.

[stever20]

St John's is locked into the 8 seed....

got 2 teams with 8 wins.... And max wins for St John's now is 8.

Xavier- swept St John's.
Marquette- 1-1 vs St John's. but beat Nova which is tiebreaker then.

[milksteak]

You guys are correct. I updated it.

[Hall2012]

Shouldn't Providence also be above Seton Hall due to their Butler win? Or does that temporarily not apply since SHU has only played Butler once?

[billyjack]

The current bracket weirdly has the eastern schools on one side, and the westerns on the other.

Also, PC is locked into 6th or better:
- loser of XU-Marquette would lose a tiebreaker with PC (due to Friars' sweep of Marquette and their win vs Butler). Also, PC would not lose any combination of 3-way or 4-way ties, due to their h2h records combined with their Butler win.

[jfan]

Isn't Creighton guaranteed no worse than 4th, since they hold the tiebreaker with everyone but MU? (2-0 v Butler) Could be wrong since I'm not really sure I completely understand all the tiebreak procedures.

[milksteak]

Way too confusing. I give up haha.

[stever20]

looking at a few absolutes:
Marquette will win any 2 team tiebreak except vs Providence.
Creighton will be in 3rd unless Marquette wins out. They have a sweep vs Butler and they are 1-1 vs Providence, Xavier, and Seton Hall.
so if Xavier beats Marquette tonight, Creighton clinches 3rd