Fwd: [personal] [Husker] Nebraska at Baylor - 6:30 p.m. tonight (fwd)

[nustlnorris at aol.com]

To the best of my knowledge (and I had to figure my own unofficial tie-breaker scenarios since Big XII standings sort by overall record after conference record ... tie-breakers for the sake of conference tourney seedings are head-to-head in-conference play as the first criteria), and with a current three-way logjam for 5th, 6th and 7th place between Mizzou, OU and Texas Tech, this is the way it looks to me:
 
Tourney dates in Oklahoma City are Thursday through Sunday, March 8-11.  The top four teams receive first round byes and don't play until Friday.  The bottom eight teams in the league slug it out to see who advances to Friday against the league's top four.  Assuming my tie-breakers are correct (major assumption on my part, but it's based on Mizzou having beaten both Tech and OU -- OU and Tech have split so I do not know who would get the higher seed -- but lets assume it's OU for the sake of this post), this is the way it looks to me, if the tourney started tommorrow:
 
Top Four Teams garnering bye (advancing to Friday):  A&M, KU, Texas and Kansas State.
 
Thursday's match-ups:  #5 seed Mizzou plays #12 Colorado; #6 Oklahoma plays #11 Baylor; #7 Texas Tech plays #10 Nebraska; and #8 Oklahoma State would play #9 Iowa State.  I would assume (there's that word again) then that the Mizzou/CU winner would play #4 KSU; the OU/Baylor winner would play #3 Texas; the Texas Tech/Nebraska winner would play #2 Kansas and the Oklahoma State/Iowa State winner would play #1 ranked A&M.  
 
The source of my current conference standings is big12sports.com.  I don't know who'd be seeded higher between OU and Tech; but assuming it's the Sooners, this is my best semi-educated guess.
 
Dave Norris
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: nolan at romaine.tssi.com
To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
Sent: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [personal] [Husker] Nebraska at Baylor - 6:30 p.m. tonight (fwd)


> Other than KU, they've shown that they can compete against the other  
> B12 teams.  Who knows?  Maybe they can go deep in the tournament.   
> (unless they play Kansas early on)

If the season ended today, how would the Big XII tourney brackets be set?
--
Mike Nolan

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