Originally Posted by xu95

If you see anything wrong please let me know. I make no claims to 100% understand all of the tiebreakers (except for "coin toss" that one is pretty obvious).

First Round Byes
1. St. Louis 7- 2 (1-0 record against VCU and Butler)
2. VCU 7- 2 (0-0 record against St. Louis and Butler)
3. Butler 7- 2 (0-1 record against St. Louis and VCU)
4. Xavier 6- 3 (1-0 record against UMASS and La Salle and 0-0 record against St. Louis)

Opening Round Games
5. Massachusetts 6- 3 (1-0 record against Xavier and La Salle and 0-1 record against St. Louis)
6. La Salle 6- 3 (0-2 record against UMASS and Xavier)
7. Temple 5- 4 (2-0 record against Charlotte and GW)
8. George Washington 5- 4 (1-1 record against Charlotte and Temple)
9. Charlotte 5- 4 (0-2 record against Temple and GW)
10. St. Bonaventure 4- 5 (1-0 record against Richmond and St. Joes)
11. Richmond 4- 5 (0-0 record against St. Bonaventure and St. Joes)
12. Saint Joseph's 4- 5 (0-1 record against St. Bonaventure and Richmond)

Starting spring break early
13. Dayton 3- 6
14. Fordham 2- 7
15. Rhode Island 1- 8
16. Duquesne 0- 9


FIRST ROUND
Thursday, March 14
Game 1: George Washington vs. Charlotte 12:00 p.m.
Game 2: Massachusetts vs. St. Joseph's 2:30 p.m.
Game 3: Temple vs St. Bonaventure 6:30 p.m.
Game 4: La Salle vs Richmond 9:00 p.m.

QUARTERFINAL ROUND
Friday, March 15
Game 5: St. Louis vs. Game 1 Winner 12:00 p.m.
Game 6: Xavier vs. Game 2 Winner 2:30 p.m.
Game 7: VCU vs. Game 3 Winner 6:30 p.m.
Game 8: Butler vs. Game 4 Winner 9:00 p.m.

SEMIFINAL ROUND
Saturday, March 16
Game 9: Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner 1:30 p.m.
Game 10: Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner 4:00 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday, March 17
Game 11: Game 9 Winner vs. Game 10 Winner 1:00 p.m.


The following tie-breaker format is utilized for determining the seeding in the Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Championship:

TWO-TEAM TIE
1. Head-to-head competition.
2. Conference record of the tied teams based on winning percentage
versus the highest common opponent and proceeding down to the
lowest common opponent, if necessary, until one team gains an
advantage.
a. All ties are broken in descending order.
b. When arriving at another pair of tied teams, use each team’s record
against the tied teams as a group. When comparing records against a
group of teams, the higher winning percentage will prevail. In case of
tied percentages vs. the team or group of 1.000 or .000, the following
shall apply: 2-0 is better than 1-0; 0-1 is better than 0-2.
3. Coin toss.

THREE-OR-MORE-TEAM TIE
1. Head-to-head competition.
a. Use each team’s record against the tied teams as a group rather than
performance against individual teams. When comparing records against
a group of teams, the higher winning percentage will prevail. In case of
tied percentages vs. the team or group of 1.000 or .000, the following
shall apply: 2-0 is better than 1-0; 0-1 is better than 0-2.
2. If the above results in two teams remaining, the two-team tiebreaker is used.
3. If more than two teams still remain, use the Conference record of the
tied teams based on winning percentage versus the highest common
opponent and proceeding down to the lowest common opponent, if
necessary, until one team gains an advantage.
a. All ties are broken in descending order.
b. When arriving at another pair of tied teams, use each team’s record
against the tied teams as a group. When comparing records against a
group of teams, the higher winning percentage will prevail. In case of
tied percentages vs. the team or group of 1.000 or .000, the following
shall apply: 2-0 is better than 1-0; 0-1 is better than 0-2.
3. Draw lots.

Originally Posted by xu95

What I'm wondering is if Xavier's non-conference victory against Butler would be used in a tiebreaker if it came to it or if they only count conference games. I don't think the league took into account that that could ever happen.

Originally Posted by A10BBall

So Dayton, a top 150 team, is a game back from conference tourney qualification? Yikes... the depth of this conference is insane...

They also have Xavier, @ UMASS and @ Charlotte in their next 3 games.. Wow this going to be a very interesting race to watch at the end of the season.. I would hate to the 5th seed having to play a qualification game against them

Originally Posted by Free Quebec

They are also near the bottom in the country on what their record is vs what it should be based on their per possession play (GW is right there with them on that).

Originally Posted by MudFlap

As an X fan, I'd take 3-3 the rest of the way right now. Actually, one more win would exceed all my expectations for this team this year. 20 wins would be an automatic COY for Mack.

Originally Posted by rworkman09

I don't think it would be automatic. I think Major taking a team full of freshman and sophs to a 20 win season would be equally impressive.

Originally Posted by SpiderDave19

That stat epitomizes what I abhor about the advanced stats that are all the rage.

We are going to rank teams based on what a computer says their record "should be" based on a whole bunch of meaninglessness.

The good news is, WE KNOW WHAT THEIR RECORD ACTUALLY IS. I can't stand it when I see TV personalities talking about teams...."Well, they beat GoodTeamX and GoodTeamY, don't really have any bad losses, but their KenPom and BPI numbers expose them as overated..." Good thing big TVs are cheap now, I'm going to throw a beer bottle through mine at least once this March.

Originally Posted by rworkman09

I don't think it would be automatic. I think Major taking a team full of freshman and sophs to a 20 win season would be equally impressive.

Originally Posted by xudash

I grant you that. That would be an achievement. However, if "reestablishing performance following turmoil" has anything to do with it, especially when that involves creating an entirely new starting line-up, then that might be a differentiating factor.

Originally Posted by paulxu

If that Braswell guy is a freshman or soph, I'm glad you guys are leaving. He's given us nightmares way too long.