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  • #1

    Ohio Valley Conference

    From the SportsNetwork

    "Ohio Valley: Eastern Illinois wins the conference title by beating Jacksonville State. The Gamecocks can claim the league’s automatic berth with a win against Eastern Illinois and a loss by Eastern Kentucky. If Jacksonville State and Eastern Kentucky both win, there will be a blind draw to break the tie between JSU, EKU and EIU after the conclusion of the Eastern Kentucky game"

    Can you imagine a coin flip deciding the conference champ and automatic bid? The commish of the Ohio Valley should get canned if this ends up happening. Thank God the Gateway at least has a halfway decent procedure in place. The good news is I wouldn't expect the OVC team to stick around very long anyway in the playoffs.....
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    They won't stick around cuz they'll get sent to Cedar Falls for a trip to the woodshed.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by georgiapantherfan
      From the SportsNetwork

      "Ohio Valley: Eastern Illinois wins the conference title by beating Jacksonville State. The Gamecocks can claim the league’s automatic berth with a win against Eastern Illinois and a loss by Eastern Kentucky. If Jacksonville State and Eastern Kentucky both win, there will be a blind draw to break the tie between JSU, EKU and EIU after the conclusion of the Eastern Kentucky game"

      Can you imagine a coin flip deciding the conference champ and automatic bid? The commish of the Ohio Valley should get canned if this ends up happening. Thank God the Gateway at least has a halfway decent procedure in place. The good news is I wouldn't expect the OVC team to stick around very long anyway in the playoffs.....
      The problem is that each of the three teams would have beat one of the others. The next tie breaker is record vs conf opponents. Each beat every other conference team. I don't know what would be a good method of breaking the tie at that point other than using some form of a ranking system, but that is not ideal either.
      If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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      • #4
        Go with overall record to break the tie. In this case that would make EIU the winner. Even if that only got you down to two teams you could then break it by head to head. If that didn't work go to least points allowed in conference games. Anything but a blind draw!!!!! We would be screaming bloody murder if this was the GFC! It just makes the OVC look foolish.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by georgiapantherfan
          Go with overall record to break the tie. In this case that would make EIU the winner. Even if that only got you down to two teams you could then break it by head to head. If that didn't work go to least points allowed in conference games. Anything but a blind draw!!!!! We would be screaming bloody murder if this was the GFC! It just makes the OVC look foolish.
          What if one team has a better overall record because they played DII Yahoo St while the other team played and lost to a DIA school?
          If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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          • #6
            Go with overall record against D-I AA opponents, You could even just go with points allowed in conference game. My basic point is the blind draw is completely asinine. It is like they gave up trying to come up with a better solution and thought it would just never happen.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by georgiapantherfan
              Go with overall record against D-I AA opponents, You could even just go with points allowed in conference game. My basic point is the blind draw is completely asinine. It is like they gave up trying to come up with a better solution and thought it would just never happen.
              I understand your point, but going by least points allowed isn't really fair, either. What if one team wins by shutting down their opponents, but the other team wins by outscoring their opponents. You can't penalize a team for its style of play.

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              • #8
                So a blind draw is better than some quantitative measure? All I am saying is that the OVC must be run by a bunch of dolts to end up with this type of scenario!

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                • #9
                  not sure if it really matters, but their commish came from the Mid-Con....which doesn't have football....but for some reason i think he did play football in college. i agree...a coinflip should never determine a seed/automatic entry.....

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