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I believe they would be "co-champs" but Nova would get the 1 seed in the BE Tourney.

kellernr wrote:

stever20 wrote:

kellernr wrote:If X and Nova both go 15-3 are they co-champs or does nova get the crown for beating X twice?

I think they are co-champs, but Nova obviously gets the #1 seed for the BET.

Works for me. Hope nova drops 1 of their next 4 and X wins out.

That's a bad rule, we have a double round robin league. Head to Head should definetly be a tie breaker. I'm not worried about was Nova does, I just want the Muskies to win out the regular season and at least make the Big East Finals. That might be enough to keep them a one seed

a team that is going to be fascinating to watch will be Oklahoma. Getting set to go 16-11. Next 2 games they really will need to get 1 win- Kansas St and Baylor. Lose both and they're 16-13 and need a win vs Iowa St to just give themselves any shot at making the tourney- entering the Big 12 tourney at 17-13 with a RPI around 50. 6 losses in a row and after starting 12-1 they are now only 4-9 last 13 games- and soon to be 4-10.

Kansas St is going to be a big team to watch down the stretch. They have Texas(16-11) on Wednesday and Oklahoma(16-11 after tonight) on Saturday. Bubble teams would love to see them go 2-0 this week I think.

Stewart Mandel #2 bracketology from today
SH 8 S Charlotte vs TCU, Virginia
Creighton 9 W Wichita vs Alabama, Kansas
Providence 10 W Nashville vs MIchigan, UNC
Nova 1 E Pittsburgh vs Nevada/Texas rd 2
Xavier 1 MW Detroit vs Florida/St Mary's rd 2
Butler 10 MW Charlotte vs Missouri, Duke

Butler 4th team with bye
Providence 2nd team with bye
Marquette 3rd team out

Bracket Matrix update from last night-
Nova 2
Xavier 3
Creighton 29
Seton Hall 34
Butler 36
Providence 39

Marquette 6th team out

I think Marquette is closer- I think they're on most everyones 1st 4 out.

I believe it was a HLH poster who calculated the seed probability for the Big East tournament around this time (with everyone having 2-3 remaining games) last year. Any word on that? Don't see a thread yet.
I'm debating a quick trip to NY for Butler's first game. (Because, if history repeats itself, there will be only one game . Hey, maybe they break the streak because I have a plane ticket home.)

BMRadio99 wrote:I believe it was a HLH poster who calculated the seed probability for the Big East tournament around this time (with everyone having 2-3 remaining games) last year. Any word on that? Don't see a thread yet.
I'm debating a quick trip to NY for Butler's first game. (Because, if history repeats itself, there will be only one game . Hey, maybe they break the streak because I have a plane ticket home.)

just looking quickly-
Xavier can clinch top 2 seed tonight with a win- as they would have 13 wins and Providence has 6 losses, so 12 wins max.

Nova can clinch top 2 seed tonight with a win and a PC loss.

BMRadio99 wrote:I believe it was a HLH poster who calculated the seed probability for the Big East tournament around this time (with everyone having 2-3 remaining games) last year. Any word on that? Don't see a thread yet.
I'm debating a quick trip to NY for Butler's first game. (Because, if history repeats itself, there will be only one game . Hey, maybe they break the streak because I have a plane ticket home.)

Some big pieces of this picture could get cleared up tonight - but some bigger messes could also be created.

If Seton Hall and Marquette win - everything's pretty much a mess with seeds 3-6 tied and 7 (with the dreaded Wednesday game) only 1 game back.
If Seton Hall and St. John's win - the bottom 4 is pretty close to decided - though seeding within those groups is certainly up for grabs.
If Providence and Marquette win - The Friars control the race for the 3 seed and Marquette looks likely to escape the bottom 4, being replaced by Seton Hall
If Providence and St. John's win - PC controls the race for 3rd, Butler and Creighton can be very confident of avoiding Wednesday, and Georgetown and St. John's get some hope of escaping Wednesday.

Then of course - a Georgetown win over X would throw another wrench into all this. I don't see the result of DePaul-Villanova changing much.

Does anybody have a link to the site where you can predict the results in the remaining games and it will fill out where the teams will finish in the conference? I remember it last season haven’t seen it this year.

#1 Villanova
#1 Xavier
#6 Butler
#8 Creighton
#9 Seton Hall
#10 Providence

-- Surprised to not see Marquette popping up on the lists yet.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... acketology