Topic: Final CUSA Standings-Tournament Bracket

[Herdmeister]

As of end of conference play Saturday 3/5/16
Since S. Miss is ineligible for post season, they are NOT included in this chart.

Team           Conf Record        

1.UAB              16-2.                  
2.MTSU              13-5.                  
3-Marshall           12-6
4.La Tech            12-6                    
5. ODU                12-6                    
6. UTEP                10-8                  
7.Charlotte          9-9                                    
8. WKU                8-10                
9. UNT                 7-11
10.Rice                 7-11
11-FIU                  7-11    
12. FAU                  5-13              
13.UTSA               3-15                

Tournament Bracket
Day 1 #12 vs #13. Winner advances as #12 team

Day 2
#5 vs #12
#6 vs #11
#7 vs #10
#8 vs #9

Quarter Finals
#1 vs #8/9 winner
#2 vs #7/10 winner
#3 vs #6/11 winner
#4 vs #5/12 winner

Semi Finals
 #1-8/9 winner vs #4-5/12 winner
#2-7/10 winner vs #3-6/11 winner

[mckayt]

Very nice. Thank you!

[SuperAnjario]

1 plays 8/9.  4 plays 5/12/13.

[Luke80]

UAB will have the advantage of the games being in Birmingham. It would be nice to remain in the top 3 assuming that UAB keeps the #1 seed and stay on the opposite side of the bracket from them. I think if we can win our home games we will do that.

[SuperAnjario]

Need at least one more road win and a sweep at home.

[Herdmeister]

1 plays 8/9.  4 plays 5/12/13.

Corrected. Thank you... Duh!

[Herdmeister]

Need at least one more road win and a sweep at home.

Obviously, I want to win them all. However, I wouldn't be too surprised to sweep at home and lose 2 on the road at MTSU and UAB. That would be 13-5. That SHOULD get us in top 4.

[THUNDER0645]

Got a tough one coming up with WKU. They have been playing better and it will be a challenge this time.

[Big City]

Nice work sir. Thank you for taking time to put this together for us. 

[Herdmeister]

updated

[MUonium]

Doug Smock:
A note on this year’s C-USA tournament, which begins March 8: All teams will participate, minus NCAA-penalized Southern Miss.

There is a wrinkle: The Nos. 12 and 13 seeds will play on March 8 at Bartow Arena on the UAB campus, with the winner taking on the No. 5 seed the next day. The usual 11-vs.-6, 10-vs.-7 and 9-vs.-8 games also are played that day at Legacy Arena downtown, with the top four seeds getting the usual bye to the quarterfinals.

Here’s the confusing part: That play-in game is being referred to as the first round, with the usual first round becoming the second round. The NCAA tournament discarded that strange practice this season.

- See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports/20160212/c-usa-notebook-down-year-for-league-could-cost-uab#sthash.dsaEdLrC.dpuf

[Apollo]

Its the way it has to be formatted. No wrinkle and if he's confused by any of that, maybe he needs to find a different profession. It isn't confusing at all. NCAA may done away with it but if its called a play in or 1st round, who cares? It's the same game. Must be a slow news day.

[IM4DHERD]

We have to take care of our own business, but a little help wouldn't hurt...Sat 2/13 games:

1 UAB @ 4 La Tech - I think UAB knocking La Tech down a notch might help us get to a 2-3 seed more than a UAB loss...It will be very difficult to surpass UAB for first place.  Others might have compelling arguments otherwise.

3 MTSU @ So Miss (4-7) - Probably not going to get a lot of help here.

12 Rice @ 5 ODU - Who knows, Rice played us strong.

6 UTEP @ 8 FAU - Long road trip for UTEP.

10 No TX @ 7 Charlotte

13 UTSA @ 8 FIU - Probably not much help here.

[Herdmeister]

We have to take care of our own business, but a little help wouldn't hurt...Sat 2/13 games:

1 UAB @ 4 La Tech - I think UAB knocking La Tech down a notch might help us get to a 2-3 seed more than a UAB loss...It will be very difficult to surpass UAB for first place.  Others might have compelling arguments otherwise.

3 MTSU @ So Miss (4-7) - Probably not going to get a lot of help here.

12 Rice @ 5 ODU - Who knows, Rice played us strong.

6 UTEP @ 8 FAU - Long road trip for UTEP.

10 No TX @ 7 Charlotte

13 UTSA @ 8 FIU - Probably not much help here.

Yes, we could use UAB to beat La Tech. Also MTSU may have trouble at USM. UAB had to go double OT last night to beat the Eagles. We want LA Tech and MTSU to lose more than anybody. Really tough for us to overtake the Blazers.

[ed swain]

Do we know about tv coverage for the tournament?

[UABlazin]

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday on ASN.
Friday on CBS Sports Net.
Championship game on FS1.

[Herdmeister]

Do we know about tv coverage for the tournament?

As you see above, every game is on ASN until the semi's then on CBSSN. Saturday championship on Fox Sports 1

[ed swain]

Thanks for the information.

[goherd24]

This will be the best coverage out tourney has ever gotten. No more watching a terrible online feed of a tourney game

[Herdmeister]

Updated

[chris88]

Can we sticky this at top?

[chris88]

If we just win our home games, 13-5 will be good enough to get us in top 3 as we will hold all tiebreakers with LT and ODU.

[Buffalo Bop]

Next up is Charlotte. Officials need to make sure the three-digit score boards are working.  ;D

[IM4DHERD]

We (#3) need to knock off #7 Charlotte and #5 ODU.  Other help:

I think we are best off if #1 UAB beats #2 MTSU @ MTSU Sunday (only game for either team this week).

#4 La Tech is at #13 UTSA and #6 UTEP...Looking from some help from the Miners.

#5 ODU is at #10 WKU before heading to Htgn.  Two losses are not out of the question.

#6 UTEP has So Miss (ineligible for tourney) before #4 La Tech.  A loss to So Miss doesn't hurt us.

We take care of business and knock down #7 Charlotte who then travels to #10 WKU.

Not much worried about Rice/UNT

[iherdya]

We (#3) need to knock off #7 Charlotte and #5 ODU.

a home sweep will put us at 11-3, leave charlotte at best 7-7, and leave odu at best 8-6 (if they beat wku). we'd own the tie-breaker vs odu, so assuming that utep doesn't win out, we'd only have to win 1 of our last 4 at that point to finish top 4.

I think we are best off if #1 UAB beats #2 MTSU @ MTSU Sunday (only game for either team this week).

i think ideally, a mtsu win would help us more, it'd be another loss for uab. if mtsu would win and we win out, we'd finish 13-3 and the best uab could do would be 13-3. the tiebreaker would be best record vs the highest ranked team in the standings, which would likely be mtsu, we'd be 2-0 against them, uab would be 1-1, so we'd be the regular season champ and secure our nit berth.

if uab wins, and we win out, we'd need uab to lose somewhere along the way, arguably twice along the way. the difference between 2/3 seed is minimal, that's why i think mtsu winning helps us out more.

#4 La Tech is at #13 UTSA and #6 UTEP...Looking from some help from the Miners.

since utep owns the tiebreaker against us and are sitting at 6 losses, just outside the top 4, and us not having a chance to beat them, i think we need la tech to beat them. la tech is 4th, while it'd be nice to stay and finish in the top 3 (to avoid uab until the finals), ultimately we need to finish top 4. if la tech beats utep, that drops them to 7 losses, which means we could go 3-3 down the stretch and still finish ahead of them.