Conference Championships

Many conf tourny underway or get underway this coming week. By Conf:

Am E: Playin games today to see who joins #1 BU and #2 Hartford on 11/4 Friday. Finals Sunday 11/6.

Atl 10. Playin on 11/3 to see who plays Dayton and LaSalle on 11/4. finals 11/6

ACC: full set of 8 teams start QF today, SF 11/4 finals 11/6

Atl Sun: Play-in round completed and SF: N FL vs FLGC, and Mercer vs ETSU 11/4. Finals 11/6

Big 12: Full set of 8 teams with QF 11/2, SF 11/4, F 11/6.

Big E: Play-in for QF done, QF today, SF 11/4 and F 11/6 hosted at WV.

Big Sky: 4 team field set. SF 11/4 PSU v. Webber St, N Col v. Montana hosted at N. Col.

Big South: Full set of 8 teams start on 11/3, SF 4, F 11/5

Big Ten: First round 11/2, SF 11/4, F 11/6

Big W: 4 team field SF 11/3, F 11/6

Colonial: Playin on 11/3 to see who plays W&M and #2 seet on 11/4. F 11/5

Conf USA: Full set of 8 QF play 11/2. SF 11/4. F 11/6

Horizon: Play in games on 11/1 to see who plays Det and Mil in SF 11/4. F 11/6

Metro Atl: Hosted by Loyola. SF 11/4, F 11/6 4 team field.

Mid Am: Full 8 team QF today. SF 11/4. F 11/6

MVC: Play in games today to see who plays Ill St and Mizz St in SF 11/4. F 11/6

Mt W: Playin games on 11/2 to see who plays SD st and NM on 11/4 in SF. F 11/6

NE: Four team field 11/4 and 11/6

OVC: Play in games on 11/3. SF 11/4, F 11/6

Patriot: 4 team field of Colgate, Laf, Army and ?. SF 11/4, F 11/6

SEC: Full 8 QF on 11/2. SF 11/4. F 11/6

Southern: Full 8 team QF today. SF 11/4. F 11/6

Southland: Plan in games on 11/3 to see who plays SFA and Tex St on 11/4. F 11/6

SWAC: ?

Summit: SF 11/4, F 11/6

SunBelt: Full 8 team QF on 11/2. SF 11/3, F 11/5

WAC: Play in 11/3 for SF 11/4 F 11/6


IVY WCC and PAC 12 no tourney. Busy week coming up.

The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) QFs are 11/3; SFs 11/4; Fs 11/6.

I think I'm right that the brackets for the following conferences won't be final until after today's games:

Atlantic 10
Big South
Big Ten
Big West
Colonial
Great West
Metro Atlantic
Northeast
Ohio Valley
Patriot
Southland
Summit
SWAC
WAC

In Conf Tourney action today:

Am East: Bu eliminated Binghampton. Harvard plays Albany in other SF tomorrow. Finals Friday.

ACC: Duke over VT, Vir over MD, FSU over UNC, WF over BC. SF Friday, F Sunday.

Big East: WV over SH, Gt over Syracuse, Louisville over Providence, and ND over MQ. SF Friday, Finals Sunday.

Mid Amer: Toledo over Ohio, CMU over Akron, W. Mich over Ball st, Buffalo over Kent St. Same time for SF and F.

MVC: Evansville over Drake, and UNI over Creighton.

Southern: Col of Chas over Elon, Geo S over UNC_GR, Furman over Davidson, and Samford over W. Car.

Next action: beside Am E tomorrow SF, Big 12 starts Wed, Conf USA Wed, Horizon starts Tues., MT W play in start Tuesday, SEC starts Wed, Sunbelt starts Wed.

I believe Stanford, Harvard and Santa Clara have clinched Reg season titles in PAC 12, Ivy, and WCC where there is no Tourney.

I think not on the WCC. I believe that if San Diego wins over Santa Clara, then San Diego will be the WCC champs. Santa Clara now has a tie. San Diego has a loss. If San Diego wins, they will have a loss and Santa Clara will have a win and a loss. Am I wrong?

The WCC is actually going to come down to Friday's games. With everyone having one game left SCU is on 19 points and USD and Pepperdine each have 18. Pepperdine is home to USF at 3 and Santa Clara is away to USD at 6 on ESPNU.

EDIT (Take 2):
SCU wins the WCC if they beat USD or they draw USD and Pepperdine doesn't win.
USD wins the WCC if they beat SCU and Pepperdine loses or draws (Pepperdine beat USD this year).
Pepperdine wins the WCC if they win their game and SCU draws or loses to USD.

Okay. I think I got it.

Right. If Santa Clara wins, they are the champions. If San Diego wins and if Pepperdine loses (doubtful they will lose), then San Diego is champion. If San Diego wins and Pepperdine wins, then? I assume that Pepperdine would be the champs based on a head-to-head win over San Diego, but I don't know how the tiebreaker rules work.

In any event, the critical game, in terms of WCC champ, is Santa Clara v San Diego @ San Diego.

UPSoccerFanatic wrote:Right. If Santa Clara wins, they are the champions. If San Diego wins and if Pepperdine loses (doubtful they will lose), then San Diego is champion. If San Diego wins and Pepperdine wins, then? I assume that Pepperdine would be the champs based on a head-to-head win over San Diego, but I don't know how the tiebreaker rules work.

In any event, the critical game, in terms of WCC champ, is Santa Clara v San Diego @ San Diego.

If teams are tied for the points lead they are declared co-champions.

To settle who gets the auto bid, head to head is the first tiebreaker.

Then they compare against the #3, 4, 5 teams etc. in order.

How did the pre-season prognosticators fare in predicting the leaders in the WCC race? Not too well. On Aug. 4 the WCC poll read like this:
1-Portland
2-(Tie) Santa Clara, BYU
4-San Diego
5-Loyola Marymount
6-Pepperdine
7-St. Mary's
8-(Tie) Gonzaga, USF

In action today in Am East Albany upset Hartford. Will play BU in Final on Friday.

Tomorrow a couple of play-in games in Horizon Conf to see who meets Det and Mil in SF.

Wed lots of action in: Big 12 QF, Conf USA QF, Mt West play-in to see who goes against SD St and NM in SF, SEC QF, and Sunbelt QF.

purple haze wrote:How did the pre-season prognosticators fare in predicting the leaders in the WCC race? Not too well. On Aug. 4 the WCC poll read like this:
1-Portland
2-(Tie) Santa Clara, BYU
4-San Diego
5-Loyola Marymount
6-Pepperdine
7-St. Mary's
8-(Tie) Gonzaga, USF

I'll admit, I was skeptical of this one when it came out. I had the Pilots losing 4 games and possibly tying 2. I penciled in losses against Stanford, Oregon State, Santa Clara, Florida State and ties against Washington and one of their WCC foes. I didn't expect the 8 losses and missed on OSU (man, that was a warm day) and FSU. I had them 2nd or 3rd in the WCC. Behind Santa Clara, but didn't know what to expect from BYU. Oh well...

More action today: # are conf tourney seeding.

Big 12: Texas over TT, Ok st over Ok, Mizz #6 upset #3 baylor in pks, a&m over Kansas in pks.

Big Ten: No upsets but MSU over Iowa and Ill over OH st in pks, PSU over NW, and Minn over Wis

SEC: Aub #7 upset ##2 LSU, Tenn over Kentucky, AL#8 upset #1 S. Car, and FL over Geo.

Sunbelt: no upsets, FIU over Ark st, Denver over S. AL, N Tex over Troy, and W. Kent over M. Tenn.

More action tomorrow in: Atl 10, Big S, Big W, SWAC, Sunbelt, and WAC.

PurplePrideTrumpet wrote:The WCC is actually going to come down to Friday's games. With everyone having one game left SCU is on 19 points and USD and Pepperdine each have 18. Pepperdine is home to USF at 3 and Santa Clara is away to USD at 6 on ESPNU.

Pepperdine 4-0 LMU

Now it's SCU if they beat USD, Pepperdine if they don't.

San Diego beat Santa Clara @ SCU tonight, 3-0, to win the WCC 2011 Championship.

And in year of firsts, that's the first time neither Portland nor SCU won at least a share of the WCC.