Big East Tournament bracket (through Feb 26th)

[MUBasketball]

[TallTitan34]

A lot can still change, but as of the 26th, I'd rather play the teams the three seed gets!  Hopefully Louisville can edge out Cincinnati for that 6 seed to get them out of our bracket!

[copious1218]

Not sure what the outcome is for a tiebreaker between USF, L'Ville, and Cincy, but L'Ville can tie USF in the standings (as pass them with a head-to-head tie breaker) with a W at home on Wednesday.

[dwaderoy2004]

I believe Louisville loses all tiebreakers with cincy and USF, even assuming louisville beats USF.  In a three way tie, I believe it would go Cincy, USF, Louisville.

[copious1218]

I believe Louisville loses all tiebreakers with cincy and USF.  In a three way tie, I believe it would go Cincy, USF, Louisville, as of right now.

If that is true we just need to beat Cincy and have L'Ville beat USF.  That puts LVille and USF tied (11-6) (with the head-to-head going to LVille) and drops Cincy (10-7) to the 7 line, with 1 more game apiece.  So we could play them for the third time in a one-month span.

[dwaderoy2004]

That's assuming a three way tie with a mini conference as the 1st tiebreaker (where they would all be 1-1) and the 2nd tiebreaker being best win according to league standings.  If it's just a two way tie, then head to head record rules...

[robmufan]

the 4 seed isn't as scary either...despite the fact you have to play 'Cuse in the Semis.  But you are going to have to play them eventually...

[dwaderoy2004]

man, I don't think I'm right.  these tibreakers are nuts:

http://www.bigeast.org/fls/19400/pdfs/men_basketball/tie-breaker10.pdf

[copious1218]

That's assuming a three way tie with a mini conference as the 1st tiebreaker (where they would all be 1-1) and the 2nd tiebreaker being best win according to league standings.  If it's just a two way tie, then head to head record rules...

Right.  But if we beat Cincy there is no mini-conference because only USF and LVille would be tied with LVille gaining the head-to-head win (all with 1 game to play, so they could still end up tied).

[TallTitan34]

Here is the final bracket:

http://www.bigeast.org/portals/5/fls/19400/ChampionshipCentral/Big%20East%20Men%27s%20Basketball/2012/2012_bracket.pdf